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June? No way. Only a complete and utter moron would have called an election then - and despite your opinions, Thatcher was not one. The election would have been held in March. To have the election in June is more or less ASB - a majority is not.

Sam, you need to remember to take your own biases into account - obvious sometimes that you're not doing so.

Poll tax less relevant than you think. Considering that Major more or less replaced it with the same thing and no one cared, in addition to not removing it until after the next election.

By mid-November of 1990, Tory numbers had begun to even with Labor again. Obvious trend in place, and would have evened out, if not went in favor of the Tories, had she not quit the leadership election. Add to that how wrong their "polls" were shown to be in 1992. 2.5-4% errors.

Not underestimating anything. You, however, are overestimating, and completely and utterly ignoring the impact of a Gulf War victory.

Unpopular politicians involved in it got massive popularity boosts throughout the entire western world. She would get it too. And you are entirely ignoring that.