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thesweetcheat May 1, 2017 09:04:44
Replying to nigelswift

My thinking on that is simply that May didn't need to call the election for Brexit. She has a majority, Labour have made it clear they won't block her and she said to Sturgeon that the country does not need the uncertainty of another vote (in the context of IndyRef2 obviously).

She has simply seen this as an opportunity to exploit a weak opposition trailing in the polls and give herself five years with a bigger majority to push through her real agenda. We already know from her time as Home Secretary that she is intent on reducing rights and freedoms and giving greater powers to the security services. The Telegraph is now pushing the need to scrap clean energy policies in favour of cheap because that's what we need in post-Brexit Britain apparently. The NHS is dying on its feet as tjj's stark post shows all too clearly. To my mind this is simply opportunism, Brexit has presented the opportunity to redraw the balance and to legitimise many long-desired Tory policies on the basis of post-Brexit necessity.

Our ability to negotiate with EU27 will not be affected by the size of May's majority, but rather by the ineptness of Davies et al. The other issue lurking in the background is the ongoing investigations into Tory election fraud during GE2015, this represents an opportunity to bury that too.

[edited for typos]

N nigelswift
nigelswift May 1, 2017 09:28:34
Replying to thesweetcheat

Our ability to negotiate with EU27 will not be affected by the size of May's majority....

Indeed, and every day that goes by it becomes clearer UK will get exactly what it's given, nothing else, which is a national humiliation completely at odds with the bus people's talk of a "negotiation" and that "they have more to lose than us". We have nothing that Europe isn't prepared to forego in order to ensure we come out of this as worse off. Even the threat of not paying the £50 billion end payment isn't frightening them. "Europe isn't a golf club" they told May.

There's now talk that Macron will bring about major reform to Europe, which would make the Brexit case even less convincing. What a bloody time to be bailing out.

D drewbhoy
drewbhoy May 1, 2017 14:00:34
Replying to thesweetcheat

thesweetcheat wrote:
My thinking on that is simply that May didn't need to call the election for Brexit. She has a majority, Labour have made it clear they won't block her and she said to Sturgeon that the country does not need the uncertainty of another vote (in the context of IndyRef2 obviously).

She has simply seen this as an opportunity to exploit a weak opposition trailing in the polls and give herself five years with a bigger majority to push through her real agenda. We already know from her time as Home Secretary that she is intent on reducing rights and freedoms and giving greater powers to the security services. The Telegraph is now pushing the need to scrap clean energy policies in favour of cheap because that's what we need in post-Brexit Britain apparently. The NHS is dying on its feet as tjj's stark post shows all too clearly. To my mind this is simply opportunism, Brexit has presented the opportunity to redraw the balance and to legitimise many long-desired Tory policies on the basis of post-Brexit necessity.

Our ability to negotiate with EU27 will not be affected by the size of May's majority, but rather by the ineptness of Davies et al. The other issue lurking in the background is the ongoing investigations into Tory election fraud during GE2015, this represents an opportunity to bury that too.

[edited for typos]

When IndyRef1 was decided it was promised that if Scotland stupidly Voted No it would stay in the EU. I only ask the British Govt to keep its vow. They will say the EU ref decided things but there was no mention of that in the IndyRef so they are liars until proved otherwise.