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So why has this general election on June 9th been called? Well, Teresa May and the Conservative Party would have you believe that it is because all of their Brexit negotiations are being blocked by opposition parties who did it, not out of the interest of the country by trying to avoid a catastrophic ‘Hard Brexit’, but out of mere spite. Thus was May’s speech; she stood there buffeted by the wind, which blew her face so hard that one believed her skin would eventually trail away revealing a beaked face of scales, irritably fluttering in thirst of the restorative blood of the disabled. Alas, it merely and amusingly trivialised the ramble by giving May what can only be described as something akin to the Year 6 haircut – swished to the side at the front, spiky at the back. But should we do what the wind failed to, and strip back the layers of pretext to reveal the truth, we would find a reality just as gruesome.

In a way, the Conservatives haven’t lied in their reasoning – it is to quell the opposition. They lead by an almost unprecedented margin in the polls, which would indicate that the outcome might well be a landslide in their favour. But the opposition parties do not oppose the Brexit negotiations merely to oppose, they do it because the direction the Conservatives are heading in will be a calamitous failure. In order to appease the Ukippers and football fans, Conservatives are spouting out, with venomous zeal, mantras like ‘no deal is better than a bad deal!’ – they want to pursue this ‘Hard Brexit’ because it means we will ‘finally take back control of our borders’. The same borders that May had control of as Home Secretary over non-EU migration, which was only marginally lower than EU migration. Despite the Norwegian and Swiss models we saw plastered over our Facebook and Twitter walls – which, in their essence, were established for a free trade agreement – Britain, with the Conservatives bent on submitting to misplaced anger at immigration, will not have such an agreement. Indeed, if May and the Conservatives carry on with their intent of party over country ways, we will get no deal at all. Despite the repeated echo of ‘strong and stable leadership’, it has been anything but: not only did the Conservatives call the EU referendum in a complete misjudgment of political mood to solve internal party fighting, they are now willing to fabricate the idea that the EU is plotting against them to ‘rig the election’. Nothing says ‘strong and stable leadership’ like ruining the relationship between Britain and the EU before negotiations have already begun.

So why did they call the election on June 9th? Well, it’s because most of the electorate’s reaction was like that lady’s, Brenda from Bristol: ‘you’re joking, what another one? There’s too much politics going on at the moment, why has she had to do it? The country has had enough of politics.” The Guardian has posted an insight into this, explaining how the Conservatives are festering on the mood of apathy. This especially plays into their hands with short and sweet slogans, avoiding the issues entirely; providing ground for Corbyn’s country-changing policies to be swallowed and quelled, and for people to be too tired for more change.

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