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<text id=92TT0880>
<title>
Apr. 20, 1992: Britain's Voters:A Major Surprise
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
Apr. 20, 1992 Why Voters Don't Trust Clinton
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
THE WEEK, Page 24
WORLD
From Britain's Voters: A Major Surprise
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<p>The Tories narrowly survive the war on incumbents in Europe
</p>
<p> Across Europe, the angry voters of 1992 have been mounting
ballot-box rebellions against their governments. In France's
regional elections last month, the ruling Socialists won a
paltry 18% of the vote. In Italy last week the Christian
Democrats and their three coalition partners lost their
governing majority. In Germany xenophobic rightists slithered
into two state parliaments, breaking the single-party control
of the Christian Democrats in Baden-Wurttemberg. The opposition
Social Demo crats barely avoided the same fate in
Schleswig-Holstein.
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<p> But once again Britain refused to follow the European
Community's lead. The recession was as bad there as it was on
the Continent, and British voters were just as disgruntled. Even
so, at the end of a four-week election campaign, they still
found the Labour Party and its leader Neil Kinnock unconvincing.
They stuck with the Conservative Party of Prime Minister John
Major, giving it a majority of 21 seats in the 651-seat House
of Commons. The Conservatives took 41.9% of the popular vote,
a slight decrease from the 42.3% they won in 1987, when Margaret
Thatcher last led the party to victory.
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