Sometimes Our Nightmares Don’t Come True: the Tories Lose Their Majority
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by KENNETH SURINEmail
Photo by Afshin Darian | CC BY 2.0
When Theresa May called a snap election a few weeks ago, she enjoyed a 20-point lead in the opinion polls. Translated into votes, this lead would create a huge Tory margin of victory of around 100 seats in parliament. The Tory working majority after winning the 2015 election was 12 seats.
At the same time, Labour’s prospects looked dire. The unceasing sprays of venom directed at him by the billionaire tax-dodgers who own the right-wing media, and by the supposedly neutral BBC and the supposedly “liberal” Guardian, were compounded by the Blairite backstabbers in his own party, who made desperate attempts to unseat him as party leader. Corbyn has long said that Blair should stand trial at The Hague for war crimes, so ...