A series of key ballots will originate it a decisive year,for both the main parties and for Britain as a whole Had anyone guessed a year ago that 2015 would see Ed Miliband craving the endorsement of a comic revolutionary, the Conservatives winning an overall Commons majority, or the perpetual backbencher Jeremy Corbyn elected leader of the Labour party by a landslide,they would maintain been laughed out of the room. That’s not to mention the small matter of 1 million refugees fleeing to Europe, 56 SNP MPs, or Tim Farron main an eight-strong Liberal Democrat force in parliament or oil priced below $40 a barrel.
No astrologer,cartographer or political scientist – let alone a retiring political journalist – forecast 2015 with any accuracy. It was the year the odds were not just defied, but scorned. Disruption became the new normal.
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Source: theguardian.com