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June 10th, 2017 
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nsnbc : British Prime Minister Theresa May’s gamble to hold snap elections backfired. May, who didn’t give in to pressure to resign after the election results were announced, decided to han on – with a hung parliament.
May called an early election, hoping to bolster her and the Conservative’s majority in parliament to stand stronger during negotiations with the European Union. Instead, May saw her majority blown away and seeing her hanging by a thread as Brexit negotiations are scheduled to start in 10 days.
May insisted that she would stick to the Brexit timetable, but she was forced into an alliance with a small DUP in Northern Ireland just to stay in power.
May said her Conservatives and the Democratic Unionist Party would work together to “provide certainty and lead Britain forward at this critical time.” It’ definitely won’t buy her many sympathies with Northern Ireland’s Sinn Fein.
However, “This government will guide the country through the crucial Brexit talks … and deliver on the will of the British people by taking the United Kingdom out of the European Union,” she said after seeking Queen Elizabeth II’s approval.
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May’s snap election call was the second time that a Conservative poker game on the issue of Britain’s relations with the EU backfired. Her predecessor, David Cameron, first asked British voters to decide in 2016 whether to leave the EU.
Cameron, gambling that Britons wouldn’t want to sever their network of ties with the continent, had promised the Brexit referendum during a 2015 election campaign that gave Conservatives a surprise Parliamentary majority. When voters stunned him and Europe by voting to leave, he resigned, leaving May to deal with the mess, and May, now, for the second time in a situation where she has to manage the Conservatives’ MAYDAY.
With 649 of 650 seats in the House of Commons declared, May’s battered Conservatives had 318 — short of the 326 they needed for an outright majority and well down from the 330 seats they had before May’s roll of the electoral dice. However, rather than resign, May grabbed the lifeline of an undefined alliance with the DUP, which won 10 seats.
However, even that arrangement seemed shaky. After May went through the largely symbolic process of seeking the queen’s approval for the new government, DUP leader Arlene Foster said the two parties were in discussions, but offered no details. In May’s camp, recriminations were immediate. “This is a very bad moment for the Conservative Party, and we need to take stock,” Conservative lawmaker Anna Soubry said. “Our leader needs to take stock as well.”
One of the victors was Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. Labour’s increase in seats from 229 to 261, with one seat still undecided, confounded expectations that his left-wing views made him electorally toxic. It also confirmed that Corbyn has managed to consolidate his position within the party. Corbyn piled on pressure for May to resign, saying Friday morning that people have had enough of austerity politics and cuts in public spending. He ruled out the potential for deals or pacts with other progressive parties in Parliament.
“The arguments the Conservative Party put forward in this election have lost, and we need to change,” he said. Initially blind-sided by May’s snap election call, and written off by many pollsters, Labour surged in the final weeks of the campaign. It drew strong support from young people, who appeared to have turned out to vote in bigger-than-expected numbers, lured by the promise of the elimination of tuition fees, the hope of better jobs and a chance to own property.
F/AK – nsnbc 09.06.2017
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