Ahead of The General Elections, Brexit Remains The Elephant In The Room

Adebayo Adeniran
3 min readMay 24, 2024

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Britain’s hapless and useless premier. Image via Wikimedia commons.

Yesterday took us all by surprise.

Rishi Sunak, who had been hoping that his extreme right wing policies would gain traction, finally came to terms with the fact that his die was cast and decided to see the King to grant his request to dissolve parliament.

And with the King’s approval, the formal announcement was made on the steps of Downing Street that there would be a general election on the 4th of July.

Now if the polls are anything to go by, the Labour Party should win by a heavy margin or to use the geographical term — a landslide.

A landslide would mean that the red wall — the formerly industrial part of England — which turned blue at the last elections will go back to its previous colour and traditional Conservative strongholds will plumb for Labour.

And it would also mean the destruction of the Scottish nationalists, who have enjoyed stunning success since 2015.

Make no mistakes about it, the December 2019 elections was really about Brexit.

Boris Johnson, through undermining ‘parliamentary democracy’, lying to the late Queen and purging the moderates in his party, made it all about Brexit and Jeremy Corbyn never really stood a…

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Adebayo Adeniran

A lifelong bibliophile, who seeks to unleash his energy on as many subjects as possible