Post-Election: May’s Day of Dismay – 9 June 2017
After the surprise election, the shock results. Andrew Burdett rounds up the political events that led to a hung parliament and Theresa May’s humiliation.
After the surprise election, the shock results. Andrew Burdett rounds up the political events that led to a hung parliament and Theresa May’s humiliation.
These last 24 hours have been butcherous, thrilling, and entirely unpredictable — the complete opposite of how things felt this time yesterday. What a difference a day makes.
So here we are, at the end of a historic day in British Politics. From around 24 hours ago, bloggers and news-agencies were expecting a decision to be made by Nick Clegg and the...
Tomorrow, Britain takes to the polls. Across 650 Parliamentary Constituencies in the UK, there are 42,000 Polling Stations. It’s the first time since 1979 that all of the Party Leaders have never faced an election before. ‘Change’ has been a massive ‘buzz-word’ of this election, coined mainly by the Tories and also the Lib-Dems. Who offers most of it, and do we really need it?
Here I am, in my own Roaring Twenties, navigating life with a generally bright outlook. I recognise and appreciate how fortunate I have been – and credit my friends and loved ones for keeping me buoyant.
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