Why would anyone vote Conservative in the UK election?
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By Graham Peebles
Consistent with 21st century politics the announcement on 18 April of a General Election by Prime Minister Theresa May was a cynical move based purely on self-interest. The “snap election” to be held on 8 June contravenes the The Fixed-term Parliaments Act of 2011, which introduced fixed term elections (every five years) for the first time.
To the total dismay of many of us, opinion polls have for some time given the Conservative government a commanding lead over Labour. May and her cohorts want to capitalise on this and build as large a majority as possible in Parliament, thereby avoiding the annoying limitations and accountability of parliamentary democracy, enabling any policies they like to be pushed through, and thus hastening the demise of the nation tha...