Reluctant Remainer Theresa May Looses… Or Did She? Lord Buckethead Aside, the Biggest Loser May Be… Brexit

by Scott Creighton

“Theresa May publicly stated her support for the UK remaining in the EU during the 2016 referendum campaign” Telegraph April 2016

In spite of the fact that Lord Buckethead did not win yesterday, after a contentious, terrorism-filled 4 month campaign season, the results are in, and Theresa May’s Conservative party lost a total of 12 seats in yesterday’s snap election the Prime Minister called early because she wanted to strengthen her hand for the hard Brexit negotiations scheduled to start immediately.

Or did she?

In 2015 the Tories won a clear majority with 330 seats in the House of Commons which allowed them to form a government on their own. Yesterday May lost that majority winning only 318 which will now force her to form a coalition government, probably (they already struck a deal actually) with the Democratic Unionist Party headed by Arlene Foster who won 10 seats, up from the 8 they already held.

The big winner yesterday was the Labor party headed by the populist “reluctant politician”, Jeremy Corbyn. They gained 32 seats moving up from 229 to 261. The Liberal Democrats picked up 4 seats (12) and the Scottish National Party lost about 20 (though they still won the majority of the Scottish vote)

While Nigel Farage runs around doing spots on Di$info Jone$’s show screeching about the “islamofascists”, his party lost the one seat they still had and are now out in the street… kinda like a band of refugees. Ironic, yes?

As is the custom, Theresa May will now go to the Queen and ask permission to form a government.

Heck of a “democracy” they have there, right? The Prime Minister can dissolve parliament whenever she wants a larger majority and in the end, the will of the people hangs on the say-so of an aging monarch.

Exit polls showed the Conservative party was going to lose ground very early on. Predictions were they would only win 314 seats. That’s pretty close. Of course, here in ‘Merika! we ignore such things because our glorious black-box voting machines can never be bothered with such out-dated notions like “transparency” or “accountability”

Hell of a “democracy” we have here, right?

Corbyn thinks May should step down. He believes (and he has an argument) that this is tantamount to a vote of no confidence from the people.

Theresa May is being criticized for running a “debacle” of a campaign. She refused to debate Corbyn, the Conservative Party manifesto read like it was designed to piss off the huddled masses and when given an opportunity to answer questions from the press, she acted like she had never taken a public speaking course in her life. Compare those performances to what she did as Prime Minister answering questions every week in a hostile Parliament and you have to wonder if she’s had a stroke or something.

Couple all of that with the fact that she’s the “law and order” candidate and in the end, every two weeks or so, some former Theresa May terrorist contractor blows something up or stabs someone with a knife… and you had the perfect trifecta of a storm to ensure the Conservatives lost seats.

All that said, the question of Brexit comes to the forefront today with talks to begin in just 10 days.

Theresa May’s previous position has been to take a hard line approach to the negotiations which would basically entail a “give us what we want or we simply walk with no agreement”

That tactic may now be “off the table” according to the complicit globalist press in the UK.

The Guardian put together a handy list of “5 Possible Outcomes” regarding Brexit. Here’s #4:

“A less likely option, but one that may still prove commercially necessary, is for Britain to try to stay clearly within the existing single market. In practical terms this would mean joining the European Free Trade Association, like Norway and Switzerland, and seeking to remain in the European Economic Area as a result.

The political costs of this are high. As Switzerland has found, this is not compatible with an independent immigration policy. It also requires accepting rules set by other EU members and the jurisdiction of the European court of justice – both of which have been clear red lines for the Conservative party” Guardian

Right. Keep free trade, keep open borders, keep rule by unelected technocrats in Brussels… in short: go ahead with Brexit while keeping all the worst globalist parts of the EU in place in order to placate London’s super wealthy elites.

Yeah, that’s one way to go. Of course, it’s not really a Brexit, but who’s watching.

Number 5 is the real interesting option (no wonder they saved it for last):

“With so many unpalatable choices ahead, there is still a considerable chance the British electorate will signal its desire for a more fundamental rethink of Brexit. The most likely vehicle for this would be a second referendum held at the end of the negotiating phase. If British negotiators come back from Brussels without a comprehensive free trade deal, or a highly watered down Brexit, it is quite possible the new parliament would have to put this to the country.

Another possible route to this dream scenario for remainers could theoretically come through further electoral upheaval in a second general election.” Guardian

ah.

Theresa May had a better majority, a clear majority, won in 2015 and not set for another election until 2020. Though she didn’t particularly WANT to follow through with Brexit, she was compelled to after her predecessor put it to the people for a referendum, which he thought the remainers would win. Turns out, he was wrong. And now he’s gone.

So the Conservatives owned a clear majority well past the two year deadline for Brexit.

And now, after this fiasco from Prime Minister May… they don’t.

And lo and behold… the confusion MAY JUST RESULT IN THE NEED FOR A NEW REFERENDUM.

Or at least they will  probably spin it that way.

There is no way a “leave and keep the worst parts of the EU” plan will work. Whatever party votes for that will be finished in Britain for the next 10 generations. The “soft Brexit”, the “Hard” Brexit and the “Car Crash” Brexit will certainly be debated back and forth for the next 12 months or so but with no clear party majority in Parliament, it will be hard to garner an agreement especially when you consider YET ANOTHER snap election could be called at any time.

Neoliberal technocrats love chaos. That’s why they create it in every country they regime change, coup or bomb into our versions of “freedom and democracy”

When the government is in a state of chaos, all sorts of unpopular things can be done while the people are terrified even worse things are possible. The entire Obama presidency is testimony to that. If I hear another fake dem say “but he HAD to compromise” one more time I’m going to vomit on my keyboard… again.

Chaos is what this election created. And chaos is exactly what Doctor Technocrat probably wanted.

Look at it this way: the Conservatives are neoliberal establishment and neoliberal establishment does not want Brexit to be followed through. They like free markets, privatization, cheap labor through open borders and outside arbitrators ruling on British law on their business interest’s behalf.

But like it was over here in the States not that long ago, the general rabble of the Conservative Party wanted to get the hell out of the EU and regain control of their own country.

Tough place for a Conservative Party to be in when they held a clear Parliamentary majority and an even clearer mandate from the citizenry.

POOF

• The rise of the remainers is about to begin. May’s Brexit strategy lies in ruins
• Brexit thrown into doubt as Theresa May’s election gamble backfires …
• How Theresa May’s ‘Brexit election’ strategy backfired – CNN.com
• If Theresa May loses the General Election in June, is Brexit over?

Snap election. Abysmal performance by the party leader. A few bombs, a few knives and what do you have?

Chaos.

Chaos and a coalition government that is going to have to “compromise” on Brexit so no single party has to take responsibility for the whole thing and…

… the squabbling may eventually result in them either taking the globalist “leave BUT NOT REALLY” deal or…

a second referendum on Brexit.

“Her last-minute support for staying in the European Union will have wider implications for any future Tory leadership contest that follows David Cameron’s eventual departure. One of the final two contenders will inevitably be someone who backed Brexit, forcing Theresa May – if she gets that far – to play the role of the “Eurosceptic Europhile”.

The Home Secretary is trying to cast herself as the reluctant Remainer..” Telegraph April 2016

Perhaps May wasn’t as reluctant as she let on. Like her friend Hillary Clinton, Theresa had a public and a private opinion which was made clear when someone leaked one of her talks she gave privately to a bunch of Goldman Sachs bankers (sound familiar?)

Theresa May privately warned that companies would leave the UK if the country voted for Brexit during a secret audience with investment bankers a month before the EU referendum.

A recording of her remarks to Goldman Sachs, leaked to the Guardian, reveals she had numerous concerns about Britain leaving the EU. It contrasts with her nuanced public speeches, which dismayed remain campaigners before the vote in June.

Speaking at the bank in London on 26 May, the then home secretary appeared to go further than her public remarks to explain more clearly the economic benefits of staying in the EU. She told staff it was time the UK took a lead in Europe, and that she hoped voters would look to the future rather than the past.

In an hour-long session before the City bankers, she also worried about the effect of Brexit on the British economy.” The Guardian, 2016

To be clear, she didn’t worry about the overall economy and the effects Brexit would have on the general voting population… she worried about the effects it would have on Britain’s business elites and bankers… whom she was addressing.

To me it is very clear Theresa May is more like Donald Trump than Jeremy Corbyn is in the sense that he tapped into a general mood of the electorate and spouted the words they wanted to hear, but in the end, he never had any real intention of following through on his promises. Kinda like Barack Obama and every other politician we vote for these days.

May needed a way out of Brexit without imploding the Conservative Party and all their neoliberal agenda items on their way out the door. Wouldn’t want to see them sitting around drinking cheap wine with the UKIP refugees for the next couple of decades.

So they found one.

Gotta give em credit. It was pretty damn clever.

Hold snap elections combined with a “debacle” of a campaign and sit back and wait for the chaos.

That beloved chaos the neoliberals thrive on to do their dirty little work all over the world.

Some say Theresa May lost. I’m not so sure about that.

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