The Conservative campaign
places uneven importance on the upcoming Brexit negotiations. Theresa May and
other Conservatives have repeatedly said “Brexit is the key issue”. I’m not saying Brexit
is unimportant. But in the run up to the referendum a lot of scaremongering
went on; the press was firing people up, people were reacting exactly as they
were being encouraged to react. It was not a black and white decision; there
were various reasons for voting leave and various for remain.
I think the Conservatives
line of reasoning is that through Brexit negotiations, if we make the right
decisions and are tough enough, we can build a “stronger economy” which will
benefit everyone. The Conservatives seem blind to the fact that their "stronger
economy" has only ever benefited the few.
To say Brexit is the key issue in this election is kind of
abstract. If anything shouldn't the key issue be something like the fate of our
NHS or social care system, seeing as though people have actually died and been
driven to food banks due to austerity? Or maybe our foreign policy which is
responsible for the deaths of foreign civilians? These are concrete desperate
issues that are happening right now and are, to me, far more important than
Brexit.
The Conservatives have tied the Brexit issue in with May’s
“strong and stable leadership” myth (based on the evidence May is actually a
seriously weak, dithering and inconsistent leader) which they’ve opposed with
Jeremy Corbyn’s apparent “weak leadership”. Thus through the Brexit issue,
which is apparently all-important, we come back to the fact that the Tory
campaign is largely based on disparaging one individual.
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