{"id":23035,"date":"2017-06-11T07:15:28","date_gmt":"2017-06-11T07:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/?p=23035"},"modified":"2025-11-22T12:34:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T12:34:34","slug":"general-election-2017-not-the-last-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/?p=23035","title":{"rendered":"General Election 2017 – not the last this year"},"content":{"rendered":"

“You’ve got the Leader of the Opposition coming on the programme as a kind of victor and you’ve got the Prime Minister who’s supposed to have won the election, in hiding.”<\/p>\n

George Osborne speaking on The Andrew Marr Show<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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“Even if he hasn\u2019t won, he has publicly destroyed the logic of neoliberalism \u2013 and forced the ideology of xenophobic nationalist economics into retreat.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Paul Mason in the Guardian<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I am thrilled that Jeremy Corbyn did so well in last Thursday’s election and pleased that so many former Parliamentary critics of his have had the good grace to wish him well and say they were wrong about his prospects.<\/p>\n

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Of Theresa May there is little to say, she has sawn halfway through the branch on which she was sitting and it is not a question of if it breaks but when.<\/p>\n

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Today’s Observer June 11th 2017<\/p>\n

My reaction to the election is therefore best expressed in a few images posted below which I regard as both relevant and amusing. I look forward to the second General Election this year when Jeremy Corybn will become Prime Minister and we will have a Labour Party governing for the whole population for the first time in many decades.<\/p>\n

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The view from the continent on Theresa May<\/p>\n

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A satirical take on the coming months<\/p>\n

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Link to Tweet<\/a><\/p>\n

Related article:-\u00a0From unelectable to you should have won<\/a><\/p>\n

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Link to Tweet<\/a><\/p>\n

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Then this about which no words from me are required …<\/p>\n

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Link to Tweet<\/a><\/p>\n

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Onwards!<\/p>\n

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In search of Arthur Scargill by John Harris<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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