The UK snap election was PM Theresa May’s Waterloo
It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. This seems to be all too true of Theresa May, the hapless British prime minister. Without any real reason, she took a big gamble by calling a snap election three years ahead of schedule. Then, she managed to make every mistake in the book in fighting that election. In the process, she blew what had appeared to have been an impregnable lead in the polls for her Conservative Party over the opposition Labor Party.
The net result of her bungling is that she likely lost her job and her party’s parliamentary majority. She will also have plunged the country into a prolonged period of political turmoil that it can ill afford on the very eve of the United Kingdom’s all-important Brexit negotiations.
There was no reason for Theresa May to have called this election so soon after the last general election in May 2015. Over the past year, she herself acknowledged this point on several occasions before finally reversing herself in April by calling the snap election. The life of the current parliament was only due to expire in 2020 and her Conservative Party enjoyed a workable majority in parliament. Had the next election occurred on schedule, it would have occurred after a Brexit deal had been wrapped up.
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The UK snap election was PM Theresa May’s Waterloo
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