Why Conservatives are worried about the 1993 Canadian election

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Nigel Farage has do No bone about her desire For Reform UNITED KINGDOM has supplant THE Conservatives as THE main opposition has Work following following weeks general election.

Policy commentators And a lot voters can mockery has THE idea that A to party with No current deputies could replace A of THE most electorally successful policy entities In THE history of democracy, but "there East A game book For This", said THE The telegraph Philip Johnston.

Just such A surprise victory In Canada In 1993 has "acquired A close mythical Status on THE populist RIGHT". And THE parallel with THE UNITED KINGDOM Today – A Conservative administration In desk For on A decade And directed by A relatively new prime minister – are "strange."

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He East "difficult has exaggerate THE magnitude" of What arrived has THE 1993 canadian federal elections, said THE UNITED KINGDOM In A Changing Europe think tank.

Just five years earlier, below SO prime minister Brian Mulroney, THE Progressive Conservatives (computer) had won A second consecutive majority with 43% of THE vote. Following THE 1993 election, they were reduced has two seats In from Canada 295 places Parliament. "They had official to party Status deleted, And were Effectively supplanted by from Canada Reform To party, which became THE wide House of Right wing voters" said City Morning

THE result "fundamentally amended THE from the country policy landscape" said THE Guardian, And "bursts THE notion that only THE Liberals And THE Progressive Conservatives were...