Cheers, Nigel!
Posted on 05/28/2019 6:33:50 AM PDT by Rummyfan
In any normal UK election, it would be inconceivable for either of the two main parties - Conservative and Labour - to attract just 23 per cent of the vote. The fact that that is all they could muster between them is hilarious, and greatly to be enjoyed. As I put it on the radio last week, the departing Theresa May has led the Tories to their worst result in two hundred years. But, really, that's praising with faint damns. I saw Daniel Hannan on the telly extending Mrs May's impressive feat back through the pre-Reform Act era and accounting it the Tories' worst result since 1678. Which is kind of hard to spin. Her forced resignation last Friday morning (by which point her party had made it clear they wouldn't stick with her past lunch) ensures that she and that election result will be yoked together for all time. And jolly well deserved it is.
When the party of government falls from favor, the beneficiary is usually the principal opposition. Instead, Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party saw its vote fall almost as precipitously as the Tories'. Against the Conservatives' single-digit nine per cent, Labour could muster only fourteen per cent, its own worst result in a century - in fact, since 1910. Which would also be hard to spin, had Theresa May not done Corbyn the favor of pulling off an unbeatable record.
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Cheers, Nigel!
One needs a graphic flow chart to make sense of UK political factions and players. It’s got more fluid friendship changes than an upper class junior high school.
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