Theresa May's arrogance was worth her victory party

Photo: Facebook / Jeremy Corbyn

In the UK, parliamentary elections have come to an end. During a sleepless night, the media published the results of the counting of votes online. By morning it became clear: there are no clear winners in the elections. The Tories who gained the most votes lost, and the laborers who came second openly talk about their success. In the specifics and results of the British elections understood "Lenta.ru report».

“These elections were arranged by the Prime Minister in order to gain the overwhelming majority of seats in parliament and strengthen their power. Mrs. May wanted to get a mandate, and she received it - though not the one she expected. Conservatives have lost seats, voters, support and self-confidence. ” So Jeremy Corbin, the leader of the Labor Party, whom most of the British establishment consider to be a dangerous radical, commented on the election results after the announcement of preliminary results. He had every reason to do this: although his party came second, for her the 8 vote of June 2017 of the year was a real victory.

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Early Elections-2017 was launched by Prime Minister Theresa May in the hope of consolidating her position before the upcoming ballots and negotiations on Brexit. The conservatives had 330 votes with 326 needed to form a government, but Mei was not enough. She wanted, as she put it, “to get a mandate” - the unconditional support of the British, to win a victory so crushing that at any negotiations she could say: “The whole country stands behind me.”

Photo: Facebook / Jeremy Corbyn

The outcome of the election is as follows: the conservatives took the 319 seats, the laborists 261. At first glance, May's party won, but in reality it’s a defeat - if not catastrophic, but with far-reaching consequences.

First of all, the conservatives lost a majority in parliament. They, of course, have allies at the ready - the Democratic Unionist Party from Northern Ireland, which has 10 seats. Together they will recruit enough deputies to form a government, but that’s all. There can be no overwhelming advantage in parliament, and now any solution - including in the framework of negotiations on Brexit - May will have to coordinate with the opposition.

Labor is not in vain celebrating victory: this election gave them more seats on 29 than before. An outstanding result, if we consider that Jeremy Corbin stands at the head of the party, he is a radical and real socialist who is even counted among the top of the Labor Party as dangerous revolutionaries. Because of the contradictions between Corbin and his team and the old, systemic Labor Party, the party, at first glance, is in permanent crisis. Corbin has already coped with several attempts at a creeping coup, strengthening his position, but his chances at the elections remained unclear. The press gave him a contemptuous nickname no-hoper - “a person who has nothing to hope for”.

Photo: Facebook / Jeremy Corbyn

However, the elections showed that in fact millions of British support the position of Corbin. Laborists have wrested more than 20 districts in England from conservatives. Moreover, polls have shown that more and more educated young people are voting for the left, which means that the party is on the road to success, which is strongly associated with the name of the radical Jeremy Corbin.

Nationalists: defeat in Scotland, victory in Ireland and Wales

The success of the Laborites would have been even more crushing if not for Scotland. There, the Scottish National Party suddenly suddenly lost 21’s seat from 56 - a serious blow to Premier Nikola Sturgeon, who recently promised a new referendum on independence. Moreover, these places have gone mainly to the Conservatives. The defeat was a shock for Scottish nationalists: the deputy chairman of the party Angus Robertson and former leader Alex Salmond did not get into parliament. This allowed the Tories to soften the defeat in England, at least partially offset by the loss of seats. Some of the seats were taken away by the Laborists from the nationalists, a few more by the Liberal Democrats.

Nicola Sturgeon called the incident a serious blow to her party and stated that she would suspend preparations for a new referendum on independence. At the same time, according to her, the nationalists have every reason to look into the future with optimism: almost a million people still vote for them, and their support remains at a high level, and the defeat is explained by the specifics of the British electoral system.

These elections were successful not only for Labor, but also for other left-wing parties, including center-left and left-nationalist ones. Irish social-nationalists from Sinn Fein got 7 seats, their colleagues from Plaid Camry, who advocate for the independence of Wales, got four. But the right was unlucky: UKIP, which in the last election won the only place in the House of Commons, this time did not take a single one, although almost 2% of the population voted for it all over the country.

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There are several reasons for the defeat of the conservatives.

First of all, people are just tired of the elections. Over the past few years, the British had to vote several times: a referendum on the independence of Scotland in 2014, parliamentary elections 2 a year ago, a plebiscite on Brexit. May, after taking office, promised that there would be no elections in the near future - and she immediately broke her word. The reason was too obvious, the calculation was too cynical, and this had the opposite effect.

In addition, shortly before the elections, with the help of May, the conservatives included an extremely unpopular item in their manifesto, which sharply increased the cost of social services and carers for the elderly. The document, which was called the “law on dementia tax”, was met with indignation in society, even many conservatives criticized it, and May appeared before the voters in a very unattractive way. Although the bill was withdrawn just before the elections, the scandal managed to do a lot of harm to the Tories, exposing all the scandals and differences within the party.

But more than all, May hurt herself. She refused to televised debates with Corbin and representatives of other parties. Instead of meaningless television shows, the prime minister explained, she would prefer to communicate with living people in order to know their needs and sorrows.

That's just with the living people at Theresa May did not work out. She chose the image of an "iron lady" like Margaret Thatcher - a pragmatic, firmly standing, avoiding unnecessary idealism. But at meetings with voters, it suddenly turned out that she simply does not know how to talk normally with ordinary people, preferring to pre-arranged events for spontaneous conversations, and a lively conversation is a repetition of memorized mantras about "strong and stable leadership that the country needs." She earned the mocking nickname Maybot - because, like a robot, she mumbled the same thing all the time.

"Theresa May has the charm, oratorical qualities and attractiveness of a refrigerator packed with expired semi-finished products," one of the conservative journalists scoffed. It is clear that against this background, Corbin, who was confident in his ideals and who had time for debates and meetings with voters, looked much better.

What do the election results mean? Will be Brexit or not? May has already announced that he is not going to resign - which means that the once-running exit flywheel from the EU will continue to turn. But it is hard and difficult to turn: from now on, May and her unionist allies will have to negotiate with each Labor Party that has gained confidence in itself.

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