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lightofdayeSo for those who don't know here in the UK we had the fun of a snap general election. And I am way too chipper about the result. I've got a lot shadenfreude about this. Our prime minister Theresa May called it solely in the hopes of strengthening her majority and getting a proper 'mandate' for Brexit.
She lost her majority. Likely will lose her job and Labour came out far more strongly than people thought they would.
On the other hand, she's still in power, and she's shored it up by temaing up with the DUP who I'd barely heard of before but are an Irish party who are socially extremely backwards but do want a soft brexit so heck tons of trouble is on the horizon there.
So it's not really good for the country but on the other hand I'm so damned glad we didn't just do what May wanted.
She lost her majority. Likely will lose her job and Labour came out far more strongly than people thought they would.
On the other hand, she's still in power, and she's shored it up by temaing up with the DUP who I'd barely heard of before but are an Irish party who are socially extremely backwards but do want a soft brexit so heck tons of trouble is on the horizon there.
So it's not really good for the country but on the other hand I'm so damned glad we didn't just do what May wanted.
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Date: 2017-06-22 12:29 pm (UTC)I thought he came across as professional and truthful--almost to a fault, meaning he wants to do the right thing at all times and unfortunately sometimes it's hard to know what exactly that is. Even my dad, who tends to question basically ANYTHING ANYONE in the government says, was praising him. He just came across as one of the good guys and to try to call him a liar or a nutjob as Trump did really shows who the actual nutjob is.