The NME letters page, appropriately called Angst, published on 11th April 1992 was a General Election issue, hence it was headed ‘Vote Labour’.
History records it didnt quite work. Labour under Neil Kinnock made electoral progress but John Major became Prime Minister
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_United_Kingdom_general_election
How helpful the NME’s intervention was is a matter of historical speculation. Red Wedge which had been a feature of the 1987 Election had wound up in 1990.
Kinnock was expected to win but didnt. The fact that Major did probably helped keep the Tories out of Office from 1997 to 2010.
There is of course a fletter on the page, headed Left Wing? Yes indeed.
Notably the letter’s Editor acerbic response is about twice as long as my original letter.
Those were the days….
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