Theresa May calls June 8th Election (RESULT: Tories fail to win majority; Coalition formed with DUP)

[FaTaL]

good move. it gives her party the opportunity to get a fresh victory and remind everyone that they run the country and the people want their vision. good luck to the UK, they're gonna need it.

why did she lose so big? educate me on uk politics

 

[FaTaL]

They're going to win....of that there is no doubt..too many racist white people around for it not too happen. You should have seen the way the The Sun and the Daily Mail covered Jeremy Corbyn...the hatred is real.

 

[FaTaL]

Basically that. She thought she would get a bigger majority. If the exit polls are correct then HELL YES it backfired. She's toast.

why did she take that risk, i really dont understand

 

[tru_m.a.c]

why did she take that risk, i really dont understand

I rarely keep up with this stuff, but my assumption is she got gassed by Brexit, Trumps victory, and Le Pen's media wave.

She didn't realize that those movements would show people how ill-advised their Brexit/conservative feelings were.

 

[MikeyC]

why did she take that risk, i really dont understand

Because she wasn't elected Prime Minister (came to power when David Cameron resigned) she thought, due to Corbyn and the Labour party flagging in the polls, that she would win a General Election by a landslide, giving her a large enough mandate to go into the Brexit negotiations and do as she please.

What she failed to grasp was that to win a GE, one must have a strong manifesto/policies, charisma and electioneering nous, all of which she failed to exhibit during campaigning.

 

[hashmander]

why did she lose so big? educate me on uk politics

i don't follow UK politics like that. at the time i thought it was a good move because the tories were polling over labor bigly and she took over from cameron who resigned so she needed some credibility since she wasn't in the job because the people voted for her party (with her as its leader).

 

[tru_m.a.c]

Theresa May's two closest advisers resign following disastrous election results

Theresa May's two closest advisers resign following disastrous election results

 

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[jj23]

i don't follow UK politics like that. at the time i thought it was a good move because the tories were polling over labor bigly and she took over from cameron who resigned so she needed some credibility since she wasn't in the job because the people voted for her party (with her as its leader).

She was 23 points ahead of Jeremy Corbyn when she called the election. It should have been a cakewalk.
But she made a lot of blunders, bad manifesto, she skipped leadership debates, she came across as robotic and ill prepared in interviews.
Also the conservatives ran a campaign seeking to vilify Jeremy Corbyn as socialist, soft on terror and out of touch.
Meanwhile Labour (Corbyn's party) ran a campaign on issues, with a manifesto full of stuff people would want (even if they didn't define how it could be paid for)
They also organised and organised and organised, and got young people to turn out.
You found that people, in turn, rejected the politics of fear and voted for labour in greater numbers than many predicted.
Not enough to win, but more than enough to embarrass Theresa May and potentially destroy her in politics.

 

[Sukairain]

That ether

 

[JBoy]

once you read up on the Scotch Irish/ Ulster Scots and their history in Ireland their ancestors comical racialism towards Blacks in America makes a lot of sense

 

[JahFocus CS]

Why Corbyn Won

 

[FAH1223]

Why Corbyn Won

 

[Tical]

 

[JahFocus CS]