https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5iKgkkb218

Please feel free to share this video if you want to even it out. Let’s turn the tide.

The rest of the argument reinforces the adage that a party doesn’t win an election, the other party loses it.

And that a bad, shambolic campaign can have as much of an impact on your chances of winning as any manifesto or particular policies.

Just click on the link Alex provides (via “Opinion Polls” highlighted in bold in the main text of the post), and judge for yourself.

Or click on these 2 links:

http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/images/1983graph.jpg

http://image.slidesharecdn.com/margaret-thatcher-poll-rating-trends-130409032123-phpapp02/95/margaret-thatcher-poll-rating-trends-4-638.jpg?cb=1365653160

Labour remained ahead of the Tories until the outbreak of the Falklands conflict, at which point the Conservatives skyrocket.

Clearly, the Labour Right split – Limehouse Declaration and subsequent formation of the SDP and alliance with the Liberals – had a major impact on Labour’s fortunes. But that’s also true of the Tories, too. Both plunged in the polls as a result of the SDP rise, both then revived slightly, before the Falklands War transformed everything in the most dramatic way possible.

Look at the evidence right in front of your eyes, rather than indulging in the same old dreary “Lefties are Deluded” rhetorical strategies.

I made very much the same points as you in regard to both the 83 election loss (so obvious from the poll data, as you say) and the patent lack of electoral success for well over a decade after the inception of the Party’s modernizing Right Turn under Kinnock. (One of the ways apologists for Labour’s Right try and get around the defeats of 87 and 92 is to argue that: “Well, yes, but the Left were still trying to influence Party policy, so that continued to scare the voters”. It’s pretty weak and desperate stuff)

The Corbynite revitalisation currently sweeping through Britain is exciting for the Left everywhere.

But we should expect a tsunami of smears, abuse and ridicule from the British MSM if Corbyn wins. Far worse than the contrived hysteria of recent weeks. I never underestimate the media’s ability to influence public opinion but I’m still hoping for a significant backlash against the MSM, not only from Labour voters but also the more progressive slice of the wider British public.

And well-argued, well-researched, myth-busting posts like this are vital.

1939 to 1945 was total war, fought by every individual who had to go through it. The Falklands War was an 8000 mile sea journey to reach the enemy, fought completly on the British side by military professionals.