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464. Modern British Elections (Part 2)

2024/6/26
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Tom Peck: 本文回顾了从格莱斯顿时代至今英国大选的演变,指出现代竞选活动与格莱斯顿时代的大规模公众参与形成对比,并以埃德·戴维的竞选噱头为例,说明现代政治家延续了以往的策略。 Dominic Sandbrook: 当前英国大选的影响深远,但同时也显得乏味。这与以往大选的公众参与度形成对比,引发了对竞选活动重要性的思考。文章分析了从格莱斯顿到撒切尔夫人等历届政治家的竞选策略,并探讨了竞选活动对选举结果的影响。 Tom Holland: 文章探讨了英国大选竞选活动的演变,从早期的公众参与活动到现代的电视竞选,以及竞选活动对选举结果的影响。文章还分析了不同时期政治家的竞选策略,并对现代竞选活动中政治家的表现进行了评价。 Dominic Sandbrook: 文章分析了从1945年到2019年英国大选的竞选活动,指出大多数情况下竞选活动对选举结果的影响有限,但也有例外,例如1970年世界杯的影响和1983年撒切尔夫人竞选策略的成功。文章还探讨了不同时期政治家的竞选风格和策略,以及媒体和社会环境对竞选活动的影响。 Tom Holland: 文章回顾了多个英国大选的竞选活动,并分析了不同政治家的竞选策略和表现,例如丘吉尔、威尔逊、撒切尔夫人等。文章还探讨了媒体和社会环境对竞选活动的影响,以及竞选活动对选举结果的影响。文章指出,现代竞选活动中政治家的表现有所下降,这与社会环境和媒体环境的变化有关。

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From the turn of the 20th century, election campaigns - though still replete with politicians behaving badly - have evolved. They have become less mass-participation events or festivals, and receded, with the majority of the population growing increasingly indifferent. Though, following Nixon and Kennedy’s presidential campaigns in the 1960’s, there seeped across the Atlantic a sense that elections were a “race”, which could actively alter the outcome of an election rather than merely acting as a summoning call to predetermined voters. However, the gaffs endured. For instance, Winston Churchill’s famously controversial speech in 1945, during the election that he later lost to the politically adept Clement Attlee; Harold Wilson’s large crowd of hecklers during his 1964 campaign, and John Major's infamous soap-box orations. Then, with the landmark election of 1983, Margaret Thatcher revolutionised campaigning strategy by capitalising on television. This trend has endured through the various campaigns of her successors, many in their way just as dysfunctional, derisory, and even comical as those of their early predecessors.

Join Dominic and Tom as, with a week to go until Britain enters the polls, they discuss the evolution of campaigning from the 20th century through to the present day. They reveal in glorious technicolour who have been the most effective campaigners of British politics; who the worst, and why. With a cast of characters including Clement Attlee and Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher and Harold Wilson, Tony Blair, Boris Johnson, Jeremy Corbyn and Ed Davey; they reveal some of the funniest, and most shocking election gaffs of all time....

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