{"id":199209,"date":"2019-12-13T08:58:34","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T08:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=199209"},"modified":"2019-12-14T07:34:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-14T07:34:06","slug":"uk-election-johnson-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=199209","title":{"rendered":"UK Election: Johnson Wins"},"content":{"rendered":"

News Commentary \u2013 Dec 13, 2019<\/h1>\n
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Election headlines. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

According to reports Boris Johnson seems to have been voted back into ten Downing Street. Although the extent of the conservative victory still remains to be confirmed some early reports are talking of a “landslide win”<\/h5>\n
If that is the case it is more a reflection of his opposition, or rather lack of, rather than the man himself.<\/h5>\n
Whatever the extent of the actual Conservative win, it will also signal a green light for Brexit.<\/h5>\n
Early reports quote Johnson talking of an “earthquake” as the Tories win a majority in Parliament. That being so it marks an emphatic endorsement among British voters to pull out of the European Union.<\/h5>\n
It may also mark the end of the traditional Labour Party as we know it. According to the Mirror<\/span><\/a>, this election is also the worst result for the party since 1935.<\/h5>\n
In the final weeks of the campaign, the Labour Party had been plagued by allegations of “anti-Semitism” within party ranks. Justified or not, those accusations undoubtedly took their toll.<\/h5>\n
Even more damaging to Labour\u2019s appeal to many voters was not allegations of “anti-Semitism” but its lack of commitment to Brexit.<\/h5>\n
The Tories were predicted to win an 86-seat majority – their best result since Margaret Thatcher in 1987.<\/h5>\n
Former Labour Party strongholds like mining community Blyth Valley, Labour since 1950, fell to the Conservative Party. As did other areas in the North of England, like Leigh, Workington and Wrexham, which had been Labour Party seats for generations, and which also saw a historic shift last night.<\/h5>\n
Of course the big question now is whether Johnson will deliver on Brexit? The election win gives him a clear mandate to finalise Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union.<\/h5>\n
That being so we suspect that the E.U. leaders will view Johnson\u2019 s victory with dismay.<\/h5>\n
The other big winners in last night\u2019s election were the Scottish Nationalists who gained fourteen more seats.<\/h5>\n
Despite this gain we don\u2019t think this signifies a renewed appeal among Scottish voters for independence. Like the Conservative Party gains, it indicates more an absence of real opposition to the Scottish Nationalists.<\/h5>\n
Although elements in the Scottish Nationalist Party will undoubtedly renew\u00a0 calls for independence they would be ill advised to campaign on it as an election winning strategy. A recent survey revealed declining support<\/a> <\/span>for Scottish independence and we suspect that this trend will continue. Ed<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Results indicate a clear win for Boris Johnson\u2019s Conservatives<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199209"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199216,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199209\/revisions\/199216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}