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Originally Posted by denphone
Bollocks as she has had a reasonable enough majority before calling a election which was then reduced considerably after the election so whoever gave her advice about calling a election was quite clearly wrong.
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The advice was sound. The Tories had a very comfortable polling lead going into the 2017 election campaign, which May squandered by being quite useless. At least she was consistent ... the electorate saw through her, then the EU negotiators saw through her and eventually even her loyal backbenchers saw through her and insisted she had to go. A different PM going in to 2017 would, I believe, have got an increased parliamentary majority, a better WA from the EU and would have got it through Parliament as well. We would now be outside the EU, with a solid Tory government and most likely with a Labour leadership contest on the horizon.
Still, we are where we are and I’m glad she’s gone.