This issue includes:
Theresa May is attacking
the UK’s civil liberties
A brief history: Who are the
DUP?
Plus more...
A weekly political newsletter for pragmatic progressives
Issue #8 17th June 2017
This week in Naturally Unnatural we headline with an
attempt to convey after the general election on the 8 th .
Following the general election, a fire broke out in Gren-
fell Tower block, North Kensington, killing at least 30
people so far. With unconfirmed reports of the count
being at least 100. This terrible tragedy must be high-
lighted as political manslaughter, after several failures
already underlined from the government in the last 7
years. Condolences to all those who have suffered.
GE2017: An attempt to
convey what happened
as Labour gained
Included in this issue is also highlighting Theresa May’s
manifesto promises of censorship of the internet. Since
the election, she has placed Michael Gove as Environ-
ment Minister and we explain why this is a concern. We
briefly look at how the election was gamble that back-
fired and the history of the DUP after the Conservatives
look to them for a majority in parliament
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By Matthew Clifton nificantly in England.
The result on the 8 th June shocked eve-
ryone, no-one was expecting Labour to
gain seats and Conservatives to lose
seats. Since then every political com-
mentator has attempted to make sense
as to why Labour has seen such an in-
crease in vote share. Jeremy Corbyn
gained more votes than Blair in 2001
and 2005 but Theresa May also in-
creased her vote share to higher than
that of Blair in 1997, but lost seats, sig- Theresa May’s grip on power has been
strengthened by their best showing in
Scotland in 40 years, winning 12 seats.
Labour managed to make some of the
ground up on the significant losses in
Scotland from the last election winning 7
seats.
Social media and society
Digressing from the point, Question
Time, the day after highlighted that large
proportion of journalists, political com-
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mentators and politicians haven’t quite
grasped why Labour had a significant
victory in terms of expectation over The-
resa May and the Conservatives. Journal-
ist, Isabel Oakeshott, couldn’t get
through Question Time without snide re-
marks about Jeremy Corbyn even when
criticising Theresa May, she was rude
and interrupted other guests with unnec-
essary remarks. Armando Iannucci came
across the most sensible, closely fol-
lowed by Alastair Campbell.
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