One Trick Pony: Once Again… As May’s Conservatives Slip Further in Polls… MORE Terrorism

by Scott Creighton

She’s a one trick pony,
One trick is all that girl will do.
she does one trick only,
Its the principle source of her revenue

You gotta be kidding.

On May 23rd the first article I wrote about the Manchester bombing was titled “As Polls Shift in England and Conservatives Start to Lose Ground… Terrorism ”

“… The Conservatives enjoy a solid lead but it’s been slipping a bit over the past two weeks as the populist anti-austerity, anti-neoliberal message of Jeremy Corbyn resonates with voters tired of the path Britain is traveling down today.

This past weekend saw a major shift in polling numbers as the party manifestos were released to the public and talk of things like “dementia taxes” started.” Scott Creighton, May 23 2017

I included a graph with the article which showed how the lead of the Conservatives had recently taken a dive.

May is marketed as being “tougher on terrorism” than is her Labor Party rival, Jeremy Corbyn, whom the conservative Sun newspaper basically accused of being in league with the terrorists just hours after the Manchester bombing.

Theresa May and the Conservative Party wanted to expand their majority in Parliament which is why she called for this snap election 5 months ago. At that time it looked like they would be successful. But a number of things have derailed their advantage and it seems the people of Britain want the country to abandon her neoliberal austerity direction and try Corbyn’s populist approach instead.

They started taking polls again on May 26th with the last one being published this past Thursday, just one week before the election. This is the kind of news that has been saturating the airwaves across the pond since then:

 “Labour is closing the gap with Tories and now stands just three points from Theresa May’s party, a new YouGov poll shows. The poll, commissioned by The Times, found the Conservative lead had slipped dramatically in recent weeks and is now within the margin of error. The figures show the Conservatives on 42 points with Labour close behind on 39.” The Nation, June 1 2017

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Friday May 26

The first poll since the Manchester terror attack shows the Tory lead slashed to just five points as Jeremy Corbyn closes in on PM Theresa May...” The Sun, June 3 2017

Wednesday May 31

A shock new poll has predicted Theresa May could lose her majority on June 8, but it has been branded “utter tripe” by experts…

The analysis, published in The Times, puts the Tories on 310 seats, down from the 330 they went into the election with..

Friday June 2: 

Women and middle-aged voters appeared to be turning their backs on the Conservatives over the scrapping of free school meals and the dementia tax, an Ipsos MORI poll revealed.

The research carried out for the Evening Standard suggested voters were shifting to Labour who are up to 40per cent, while the Tories are down to 45pc.

Satisfaction in Mrs May has also fallen from 55pc to 43pc – her lowest ratings to date…” The Sun, June 3 2017

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“The lead of British Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservative Party over the opposition Labour Party has narrowed further to six percentage points ahead of Thursday’s national election, according to an Opinium poll for the Observer newspaper” Reuters, June 3 2017

These polls clearly show a major collapse of the Conservative lead since May 15th 2017.

After leading by 20 points they are now essentially even with Labor and look to lose their majority. This is exactly the opposite of what Theresa May and the Conservative Party wanted when they announced the snap elections.

In the wake of these new polls as momentum builds for the Labor Party and election day nears, guess what happens? No seriously. Guess. You’ll never guess. Did you guess “more terrorism”?

You got it.

What’s that song? One Trick Pony?

• Terror returns to London Bridge: What we know
• London Bridge Attack
• May condemns London attacks, which left 7 dead and more than 40 …

At London Bridge last night at 10:07pm local time, emergency calls were put out by witnesses and victims saying a white van was speeding across the bridge hitting pedestrians until it crashed in front of a bar on the west side of the river.

An emergency helicopter landed almost immediately on the bridge to take victims to local hospitals.

By 10:16pm the police had shot dead three assailants who reportedly leaped from the van and ran to a nearby restaurant area and started stabbing people.

Reportedly, there are 7 fatalities from this attack. Authorities are not releasing the names of the suspects. The Guardian blurred the image of the assailant’s face to protect his identity for some reason.

Notice they didn’t black out the entire background?

In the wake of the Manchester bombing, Theresa May called for a moratorium on campaigning in honor of the victims. Today she calls for shutting down free speech online:

“We cannot allow this ideology the safe space it needs to breed – yet that is precisely what the internet, and the big companies that provide internet-based services provide,” Ms May said.

“We need to work with allies democratic governments to reach international agreements to regulate cyberspace to prevent the spread of extremist and terrorism planning.” Independent

Theresa May is calling for a global crackdown on the internet. Doing away with “safe spaces” for the “extremists as she calls for “international agreements that regulate cyberspace“.

She also says there is far too much tolerance for “extremists” in Britain. I guess that hearkens back to the Sun article saying Corbyn is a terrorist sympathizer.

Theresa May is calling for giving Big Business the opportunity to “regulate” free speech online to weed out “extremist” ideologies… right before a critical election.

What do you think companies like Google and Verizon consider “extremist”?

Some folks will undoubtedly remain steadfast “coincidence theorists” in spite of the glaring evidence before them. After all, the Conservative Party controls Britain today just as they control all of their terrorist contractors they send to places like Libya and Syria.

I don’t suffer from that particular delusion. Last night I took a break from reading about the new polls to turn on the boob-tube and check out the latest lies they are peddling only to see this attack plastered on every station over here in the States. My first reaction was “You gotta be fucking kidding me”

Here we go again.

Talk about a one trick pony.