SDP, the second time as farce
JUST a few weeks after the Social Democratic Party was launched in 1981, it was claiming 50,000 members. To resurrect a period expression more usually spoken in relation to the Top 30 chart, the SDP even went number one with a bullet; before its official formation, the pollsters rated it the most popular political force [...]
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