Town Hall - Guy Benson
At the end of April, Theresa May's Tories held jaw-dropping leads over the Labour Party in public polling. The conservatives were hovering in the mid-40's (one headline-grabbing survey had them hitting 50 percent), with Labour languishing in the mid-20's. The UK's major left-wing party appeared to be teetering on the brink of a historic wipeout, validating the Prime Minister's decision to call surprise elections. Then, near-catastrophe struck, in stunningly short order. Riding a potent (and somewhat misleading) attack line about Tory cuts to public safety services leading up to several terrorist attacks (and partially blaming Britain's involvement in recent wars for Islamist violence), Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn convinced Labour partisans to 'come home,' as minor-party support collapsed. And May -- whose bloodless, robotic repetition of her "strong and stable" slogan appeared to grate on many Britons -- essentially played prevent-defense as her party's lead plummeted. This evinced an entitled attitude: The polls say I'm going to win, and you don't really have an alternative, because the other guy is a nut. Sound familiar?
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