{"id":304424,"date":"2017-04-19T15:54:07","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T14:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/snap-uk-general-election-called-amid-continuing-brexit-crisis\/"},"modified":"2017-04-19T15:54:07","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T14:54:07","slug":"snap-uk-general-election-called-amid-continuing-brexit-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/snap-uk-general-election-called-amid-continuing-brexit-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Snap UK general election called amid continuing Brexit crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Snap UK general election called amid continuing Brexit crisis<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    19 April 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>On Tuesday, Prime Minister Theresa May announced her government\u2019s intention to hold an early general election. If two-thirds of MPs vote today to accept abrogating the recent provision for fixed five-year terms in office, parliament will end all business on May 2 and a ballot will take place on June 8.<\/p>\n<p>May\u2019s surprise decision gives a measure of the escalating crisis of British imperialism in the aftermath of the narrow 51.9 percent vote to leave the European Union in last June\u2019s referendum. Since that time, May, who supported the \u201cRemain\u201d camp, has led her party while at the beck and call of the pro-Brexit forces within it based on the constant assertion that \u201cBrexit means Brexit.\u201d But her hard-line pose has never successfully concealed, let alone mended, the deep divisions within the ruling class. Instead, she has been pushed into threatening a \u201chard Brexit,\u201d including the UK\u2019s exclusion from the Single European Market.<\/p>\n<p>With 44 percent of UK exports bound for Europe and London\u2019s position as a finance centre dependent on access to the continent, the other major parties have generally combined demands that a \u201chard Brexit\u201d be avoided at all costs with a threat to block any negotiated deal that does not maintain access to the single market.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, May is in a much-weakened position in her negotiations with the EU, reflective of the declining global weight of the UK itself.<\/p>\n<p>In her brief statement announcing the snap election, May castigated the Labour Party for threatening \u201cto vote against the deal we reach,\u201d the Liberal Democrats for threatening to \u201cgrind the business of government to a standstill,\u201d the Scottish National Party for its intention to vote against&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/04\/19\/pers-a19.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Snap UK general election called amid continuing Brexit crisis 19 April 2017 On Tuesday, Prime Minister Theresa May announced her government\u2019s intention to hold an early general election. If two-thirds of MPs vote today to accept abrogating the recent provision for fixed five-year terms in office, parliament will end all business on May 2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-304424","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}