| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Southall Spammer discovers the joys of Wikipedia | |
| Posted by: | Robin Taylor | |
| Date/Time: | 21/06/10 16:58:00 |
| Actually, Brain, the reason I am "beside myself with frustration and anger" is because I don't have your unbridled wit. Now here's a response to Nancy Owen. Nancy, you say that no good ever comes of trying to explain things to me. Well now I'm all ears, I'd love to hear from you as to why it is that an unadulterated political lie should go unchallenged on Wikipedia. Because that is what the assertion about Powell attracting five million votes to the Tories is. If we are to believe that Powell really did add this number of votes to the Conservative total in 1970, then presumably - in the subsequent General Election of February 1974 - he would have attracted five million extra votes to Labour. (After all, he did specifically tell people to vote Labour in that election). But guess what: the Labour vote actually FELL by half a million in the February 1974 General Electon (despite a higher turnout). This fact does not exactly lend credence to the notion currently being advanced by far right obsessives on Wikipedia that Powell was some sort of magical vote-winning machine. |