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Election poll latest: Theresa May will win biggest Tory landslide since Thatcher, final survey predicts
Exclusive:
Eve-of-vote poll by ComRes for The Independent gives Ms May a
10-point lead, indicating an 74-seat majority
Theresa May looks on course for a definitive victory over Jeremy Corbyn in the general election, as the final poll for The Independent shows her party enjoying a 10-point lead over Labour.
If
the figures in the ComRes poll are replicated on Thursday,
projections indicate a concrete 74-seat majority – the largest the
Conservatives have secured since the days of Margaret Thatcher.
But
the survey also gives key insights as to where Mr Corbyn could have
fallen short, despite Labour having halved the Conservative lead
since the start of the election campaign.
The
survey shows a majority of the public raising concerns over Mr
Corbyn's ability to pay for his spending promises and his approach to
security and Brexit, while many also believe there is now a need for
a new centre-ground political party in the UK.
...With this?
Jeremy Corbyn fills the banks of the Tyne – Theresa May can’t even pack a small room
TLE,
5 June, 2017
Thousands of people turned out in the rain to watch Jeremy Corbyn speak tonight in Gateshead after Theresa May struggled to fill a room on the Conservative campaign tail.
A
pair of terror attacks that have rocked the UK in the last two weeks
have come just before the country’s general election. Some believe
that the timing of the attacks is not coincidental, as one of the
candidates has pledged to halt arms sales to Saudi Arabia - a known
sponsor of terrorism.
By Whitney
Webb
With
the latest terror attack to befall London taking place less than two
weeks after the
concert bombing in Manchester,
many are wondering about the timing and frequency of the attacks.
Both attacks occurred in the lead-up to Thursday’s general
election, leading some to theorize that there may be a link between
the election and the uptick in terrorist activity.
However,
one such explanation has been widely overlooked. Historical precedent
and the high stakes of this upcoming election suggest that one of the
UK’s allies – Saudi Arabia – may have had a much more active
role in the attacks than has been perceived beyond its well-known
penchant for funding
terrorist groups.
Saudi
Arabia has been known to threaten foreign governments, particularly
the UK, with an uptick in terrorist activity in the event that arms
deals to the Gulf monarchy are put on hold or limited in any way
Previously
released court papers reveal that
the Saudis had threatened the UK with an increase in terror attacks
if the government of former Prime Minister Tony Blair chose to move
forward with a corruption investigation concerning sales of arms to
the Gulf nation.
According
to official documents, Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan, head of Saudi
Arabia’s now-defunct National Security Council from 2005 to 2015,
told Blair in December 2006 that the UK would face “another 7/7”
and the loss of “British lives on British streets” were the
investigation to continue.
Saudi
Prince Bandar bin Sultan, right receives Tony Blair after his
arrival in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, Sept. 3, 2007. (AP Photo)
Bandar
stood accused of taking over 1 billion British pounds in secret
payments from BAE, the UK’s largest arms manufacturer – and the
world’s third-largest.
Blair subsequently halted the inquiry
In
the current UK political landscape, there is no greater threat to
UK-Saudi arms deals than Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the UK’s
Labour Party. In addition to being a long-time critic of UK arms
sales to the Saudis and other governments that have been accused of
human rights violations, Corbyn
has vowed outright to
suspend all arms sales to Saudi Arabia if he wins this Thursday’s
electoral contest.
The
decision was described as part of a Labour plan to return to an
“ethical foreign policy” focused on “nonproliferation and
disarmament” and led by a concern for human rights.
In
contrast, the Conservative Party, now led by Theresa May, has been
eager to provide the Saudis with massive amounts of weapons. Under
former Prime Minister David Cameron’s six-year tenure, UK arms
sales to the Saudis totaled
approximately 5.6 billion British poundаs.
May,
who became prime minister following Cameron’s resignation in 2016,
has been an ardent supporter of ties between her nation and Saudi
Arabia. Most recently, her government has blocked
the completion of a “sensitive” report that
details the funding of Islamic extremist groups, allegedly focusing
on the Saudis’ leading role in such activity. By preventing that
query – much like what transpired under Blair in 2006 – May’s
government will keep arms flowing from the British Isles to the
Persian Gulf.
Perhaps
the Saudi threats to unleash terror upon the UK if its arms deals are
threatened are what May was referencing when she
argued that selling weapons to
the Saudis helps “keep people on the streets of Britain safe.”
From
collusion to blowback
by
Nafeez Ahmed
Serious
Fraud and Saudi Silence - The UK Home Secretary Amber Rudd
Amber
Rudd's opponent Nicholas Wilson points out that her colourful
business record should mean she's the last person who should be
trusted to investigate high-scale corruption and fraud
The Labour rally was in Gateshead,a strongly Labour-voting area in th enorth-east of England.
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