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Originally Posted by joeysteele
Different times admittedly but election campaigns can go wrong badly and at the last minute too,depending on other events.
Reading through political history, an extremely popular Pm Harold Wilson, saw local election results mark a good recovery for the then Labour govt.
He after them called an election in mid June.
He was against heath as Conservative leader who was wrongly seen as a joke by some voters.
During the election,Labour had 12% and higher leads with Wilson far and away the more popular leader.
Come election day and the run in of the final days,the end result was a shock win for Heath's Conservatives,with an overall majority of 30,overturning Labour's previous 90+ overall majority won in 1966.
Election outcomes can become not the result expected at the time of calling them
Things can be altered considerably even moreso nearer the end of the campaign period.
So hopefully this smug arrogant lot could yet find all things will not go as expected by this PM as to her greed of wanting a bigger majority.
She already had one of 12, Sinn Feint do not take their Westminster seats,so her majority rises to 16,then she also can rely on Conservative poodles the Dup,taking her to over 30 as a working majority then also Cartwheels vote too,whatever party he calls himself now.
Voters should think on that she has a good majority of votes in Parliament right now.
She is not happy with what the Cons got from voters in 2015, now she wants even more.
I hope her greed rebounds on her as it really ought to in my view.
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A leader wanting more seats equates to greed? That's a very strange point of view from someone involved in politics. I thought that was the name of the game.
Looking to the past will not help predict the election next month in my opinion. Politics has seen nothing like the events in the last couple of years and the electorate is a very different body now. The local election results on Thursday/Friday showed a massive swing to the Conservatives and humiliating losses to Labour. This morning Corbyn is saying he can turn it around. He's hopeless, desperate to hang on to the leadership while his party collapses all around him. The denial is palpable... I imagine some Labour supporters today are wishing Andy Burnham had got the job, he's obviously far more popular than Corbyn, who looks like he won't step down until Labour is beyond saving.
I'm going to look forward to reading through this thread on 9th June.