Electoral earthquakes beget political revolutions. Clement Attlee’s crushing defeat of Winston Churchill in 1945 heralded the creation of Britain’s welfare state. Margaret Thatcher’s 144-seat majority in 1983 signalled a counter-revolution to roll back the frontiers of nationalisation. The three consecutive terms ushered in by Sir Tony Blair’s 1997 landslide upturned his party’s historical role as an occasional interlude between Tory administrations.
选举地震引发政治革命。克莱门特•艾德礼(Clement Attlee)在1945年对温斯顿•丘吉尔(Winston Churchill)的惨败预示着英国福利国家的建立。玛格丽特•撒切尔(Margaret Thatcher)在1983年以144个席位的多数优势标志着一场反革命,旨在收回国有化的领域。托尼•布莱尔(Tony Blair)在1997年的大选中连任三届,颠覆了他的党派在历史上作为托利党政府之间偶尔的插曲的角色。