Thursday, May 23, 2024
Political Mayhem Thursday: Snap Election!!!!
While we wallow in a year-long slog of two elderly men going at it through insults and mumbling, in the UK a "snap election" has been called by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. That means that an election that will decide the future of that nation will happen on July 4-- just six weeks away.
The past 8 years of Conservative Party rule have been pretty messy, with four prime ministers and the whole Brexit debacle. Now they face not only the Labour Party (which is ahead by double digits) but a newer and more conservative group, the "Reform UK" party, which is running to the right of the Conservatives.
It isn't Sunak who will be running alone, but every member of Parliament-- and in just 6 weeks! That should be fun to watch, and a nice distraction from the election that continues to drone on here.
