What if Labour had won in 1979?

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Labour couldn't have won an election held under those circumstances; as it was, they did about as well as they could have hoped to. Now, if there had been an election in 1978 or if the government had hung on in early 1979, things might have been different. Obviously if Labour had hung onto power 'everything' would have been different to what actually happened. The great civil war(s) of the early 1980s would not have happened because the trigger event, the resignation in disgust of Callaghan, would not have happened.