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Michchamp
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Pretty impressive outcome for Jeremy Corbyn.
the media in the UK is openly further to the Right than in the US, and they had been savaging him for weeks, but he still closed the gap with Theresa May/Conservatives
I don't really know much about UK politics, but I read when she called the election, the Tories had a 20 pt lead in the polls and labor - or "Labour" as they spell it- was considered dead. Enter Jeremy Corbyn, who has long been a socialist-democrat in the mold - or mould as they probably spell it - of Bernie Sanders. He closed the gap despite being relentlessly trashed in the press the entire time.
my understanding is, even though the tories have a plurality of seats, because they don't have an absolute majority of seats, its up to whoever can form a coalition to reach the majority to form a government, ie its a hung parliament. And of the remaining seats in parliament that are not Tory or Labour, most of them lean left, so its conceivable it could all go over to Labour.
the media in the UK is openly further to the Right than in the US, and they had been savaging him for weeks, but he still closed the gap with Theresa May/Conservatives
I don't really know much about UK politics, but I read when she called the election, the Tories had a 20 pt lead in the polls and labor - or "Labour" as they spell it- was considered dead. Enter Jeremy Corbyn, who has long been a socialist-democrat in the mold - or mould as they probably spell it - of Bernie Sanders. He closed the gap despite being relentlessly trashed in the press the entire time.
my understanding is, even though the tories have a plurality of seats, because they don't have an absolute majority of seats, its up to whoever can form a coalition to reach the majority to form a government, ie its a hung parliament. And of the remaining seats in parliament that are not Tory or Labour, most of them lean left, so its conceivable it could all go over to Labour.