YP Letters: May's election '˜stitch-up' hardly in interests of democracy

Ever since Theresa May addressed a Conservative Party conference and somehow got away with describing this as the ‘nasty party’ I thought that this was indeed a woman of substance.

Her latest bold move, this time as Prime Minister and leader of that same party, to announce, despite her previous statements to the contrary, that there would be a General Election on June 8 seems like a re-run of her previous theme of ‘she who dares wins’.

By any stretch of the imagination to declare a General Election now, when one should have been called when she first took office seems reckless in the extreme, given the volatile 
nature of politics in Britain and around the democratic world that saw Donald Trump elected to the White House against all odds.

I hope she knows just what a gamble she is taking, as surely anything less than a 50-seat majority will still weaken her position so that this ‘cut and 
run’ election will put her in 
much the same position as before and she will have acted solely with the Snowdonian air still in her mind to quell the baying dogs in her party who simply cannot accept the Brexit decision that came out of the Referendum.

Afterall wasn’t it the ‘baying dogs’ in the party who wouldn’t be silenced and Cameron who then jumped to the Europhiles’ tune to put it to the electorate in a Referendum that we were best in Europe than out of it?

Mrs May’s speech to the media from outside Number 10 Downing Street announcing 
that she would ask MPs to sanction an election three years earlier than when it should have been held could well prove to the longest suicide note in history, 
for there will be those in her party and in all the others who might take exception to her assertion of ‘sack me or back 
me’.

It all adds up to an election ‘stitch-up’ that is hardly in the interests of democracy, as she attempts to win an increased majority, that has left all of the major parties completely wrong footed. They must get their individual acts together in just under six weeks.

A tall order.

From: Hilary Andrews, Nursery Lane, Leeds.

I’ve no doubt that Jeremy Corbyn is sincere in his promises in the forthcoming election promises but does anyone believe the country can afford them?

You have to wonder which planet he lives on.