Posted on 06/04/2017 2:42:23 AM PDT by naturalman1975
PRIME Minister Theresa May is facing pressure to postpone the UK election in the wake of the London terror attack.
May will chair a meeting of the government’s Cobra emergency committee later on Sunday in response to the tragedy.
Three terrorists have been shot dead after killing seven people and more than 48 were injured when three suspects ploughed a vehicle into pedestrians on London Bridge before attacking others in nearby tourist hotspot Borough Market. May also suspended election campaigning on Sunday.
“The Conservative Party will not be campaigning nationally today. We will review as the day goes on and as more details of the attack emerge,” the prime minister’s spokesman said.
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Not only is the UK done, but so is all of western europe.
They have allowed this migration to take place over the past 30 years. The enemies are embedded inside their nations with full citizenship rights and privileges.
Now, the EU is forcing member nations to accept the military force to enter their communities. These young, military-age men have an allegiance to sharia law. They will be the muscle while the embedded muslims, like the mayor of London, will continue to call for acceptance and tolerance.
Having the elections as scheduled is an advantage to May.
THAT is why the left wants the delay.
May will win because the left embraces the terrorists.
I agree with you completely Nipfan. I can vote in the UK, and I will be voting Conservative and sincerely hoping that Mrs May is returned to power.
The alternative is ghastly.
This is certainly no time for a protest vote. Either Theresa May or Jeremy Corbyn will be prime minister when the dust of this election settles at the end of the week. The UKIP vote is ebbing away as it is seen by many that they have already won their race with Brexit. Only May will see Brexit through. Who knows what Corbyn will do on that issue?
We know exactly what Corbyn will do on all the other major issues, and it is not a pretty sight.
Corbyn (like so many of the self-loathing Left) can’t even bring himself to sing the national anthem. He has a terrorist hugging past. He wants to gut the intelligence services, goodness knows what he’d do to do the armed forces.
His Shadow Chancellor is a self-confessed Marxist, who in the past has described the Labour Party as a ‘vehicle’ for his more extreme Left wing ideology to get to power.
His Shadow Home Secretary is a blundering racist who can’t express any pride in being British (she was asked this question directly).
There is a distinct thread of anti-semitism running through the whole lot of them.
Believe me, this isn’t Neil Kinnock, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown or Ed Miliband we are dealing with here. And it certainly isn’t Clement Attlee, Hugh Gaitskell, Harold Wilson or James Callaghan. This is a darker, more malevolent threat, not just to the economy, but to the very identity of the British nation itself.
I won’t be told by anybody that there is no difference between the parties this time around.
Theresa May has run an utterly incompetent, uninspired campaign, but she MUST win on Thursday.
Improbable. Brexit was never a straightforward left/right party political issue. Some of the highest 'Leave' voting in the referendum was in Labour-held constituencies.
The left wing of Labour (which now, under Corbyn, controls the party) has historically been hostile to the EU, mirroring the equally hostile right wing of the Conservatives: although that shared hostility is based, as you would expect, on totally different perceptions of what the EU represents. The pro-EU factions in both parties have always been the centrists.
Maybe it’d be better to have a PM that wasn’t to surrender completely. At least then the world can watch in horror. They say nobody is ever completely worthless. They can serve as a bad example to others. The only alternative to Corbyn appears to be a woman who will give England the death of a thousand cuts with her islamophilia. A proverbial bullet to the head might be preferable.
There is no one who will win the election who will seriously go after ISIS in the UK.
Theresa May has run an utterly incompetent, uninspired campaign, but she MUST win on Thursday.
Agree.
She didn’t even have to call for these elections, in the first place.
She has, so, let’s pray she wins.
Vote for the incompetent.....it’s important.
The least incompetent...and, the least jihadist sympathetic.
Not sure why you’d prefer May lose this election.
I want her to win, but still, she's proven to be incompetent.
Yes. Not sure of your point, to my post. She’s proven that, herself ;-)
(The fact that SHE is the one who even called for this election, proves that)
But, again..she’s the best we’ve/they’ve got, at this point in time. I’d prefer Boris or Nigel, over May.
As if his name alone wasn't a red flag.
I do wonder about the relationship between Theresa May and Boris Johnson. It was confirmed yesterday that Boris will stay on as Foreign Secretary in the event of a Conservative victory on Thursday. Many people believe that Boris should have been used much more in this campaign. I hope they unleash him for the final few days.
I’m sure May sees Boris as a bit of a loose cannon on the campaign trail, but they could do with a bit of cannon fire at the moment. Boris is a much better campaigner than May.
Postponing the election would be to the favor of her Brexit opponents. I expect her support to start picking back up in the polls now, after the attacks, because in spite of those attacks she is expected to be stronger against the causes of them than her Labour Party opponents.
I agree, completely, about Boris. He’s needed on the front lines, stat!
Thanks. I don’t follow their politics closely enough to know either of those things prior to the election.
Seeing the Muslim elected was somewhat shocking to me.
I don’t know how people get sold on party politics. I’m a single person supporter. Present a good game plan, and I’ll evaluate you against the other person. End of story...
I will state that in this day and age, I would also consider the Democrat party as a big negative, but it’s because they have so morphed into the “Evil Empire” model.
In general terms, I’d be afraid to give them numbers based on their destructive force, when in power.
I suppose this would qualify me as a party animal too, but the fact is, I detest the Republican party almost as much these days.
The Uni-Party aspects of our government right now are chilling.
D1
Khan is by far the most popular Labour politician in Britain, which means that down the road, if Labour gains power, he could very well wind up being the British PM.
The death toll could have been minimal if it was legal to carry concealed handguns in Britain. I’m sorry but the British government is aiding and abetting the terrorists by not allowing concealed carry...>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
If I lived in Britain, I would by now have taken a sudden, comprehensive , completely serious interest in Skeet Shooting.
I would have my skeet kit close at hand at all times.
That's highly questionable. The irredeemably London-centric British media have always given misleadingly disproportionate coverage to the London mayoralty in its brief (17-year) history. Outside London, that's to say in most of the country, Khan's profile and status in the Labour party are low.
Bet the Scots love him.
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