Quote: tigertot "I despise the Tories with a passion. The older I get, the more I hate them. This election has little to do with Brexit, it is an opportunity to increase their majority to >100 seats to enable them to push through even more extreme policies that they would struggle to get through with the current majority. I feel better now.'"
Couldn't agree more TT.
The right wing of the tory party, and indeed UKIP, have no real interest in leaving Europe, indeed the trade and doing business part of membership is something they don't want to lose at all. What they want to leave is the social aspect, the workers rights and environmental laws. They dress it up as a move to stop foreign workers 'stealing jobs' just to get the 'pleb' vote, even though they know full well the biggest reason for lost jobs is globalisation and mechanisation.
May is doing the obvious thing in calling the election: the Tories can soon get the money in from big business and foriegn donors, they know they will always get rabbid support from the Murdoch and Rothermere tabloids, Labour is in turmoil, Lib Dems, nowhere near ready, UKIP a dead duck and no-one else really mattering - hardly sure UKIP matter, except to a few in the Tory party, so it's difficult to really blame her for doing what politicians do naturally - putting themselves first.
Hope she gets the mother of al kickings though.