‘Dissent’ poll in Britain

WINNING NOT A GOAL: AIM TO STOP TORIES GETTING STIFLING MAJORITY

Polling data conducted by The Times newspaper showed May could win a landslide majority of 114 seats.

London

Amember of parliament from Britain’s opposition Labour Party publicly admitted that the party is not trying to win a snap election that Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May called for June 8.

May is betting that the weakness of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and the unexpected resilience of the United Kingdom’s R34 trillion economy since last year’s Brexit vote will bolster her majority in the British parliament.

Corbyn, a socialist who has pledged higher taxes on the wealthy and a crackdown on powerful corporations, said on Thursday he would prove wrong the election experts who predict his party will see a collapse in support. Asked in an ITV television interview if Corbyn was a realistic candidate as prime minister, Labour MP Helen Goodman said: “I don’t think that this election is about changing the government. This election is about preventing the Tories from getting such an overwhelming majority that there is no possibility of dissent.”

Under Britain’s winner-takesall electoral system, the party which wins a majority of the 650 seats in the Westminster parliament forms a government and the party leader is formally appointed prime minister by the queen.

Polling data conducted by The Times newspaper showed May could win a landslide majority of 114 seats, up from 12 won by David Cameron in the 2015 general election. If May does win so many seats it would be the biggest election victory for a Conservative leader since 1983 when Margaret Thatcher beat Labour’s Michael Foot to win a majority of 144. – Reuters

It’s about preventing the Tories from getting such an overwhelming majority that there’s no possibility of dissent.

Helen Goodman Labour MP