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It was a three-way split

Theresa May’s decision to call a snap election has to go down as one of the most crass decisions ever made by a sitting Prime Minister.

Did she really believe she could fight the election on a single issue like Brexit? I would have thought, she should have learnt the lesson from one of her predecessors, Ted Heath. He also tried to fight an election on a single issue, who governs Britain in 1974 and he came a cropper.

If she believed that the majority of the EU referendum would be supporting her then she, like all the other political commentators, have totally misunderstood the way people voted in that referendum.

How many times have I heard political commentators say this country is split down the middle regarding Brexit as they voted 52/48?

But this country was divided three ways: Those who voted leave - 37 per cent; those who wanted to remain - 34 per cent; and those who didn’t vote - 29 per cent.

Although they might not have been interested in the EU referendum that 29 per cent was surely interested in the General Election and they were going to vote on things that concerned them like the NHS, schools, tuition fees etc.

The contrast between the two parties was startling; we had Jeremy Corbyn portraying himself like the pied piper of Hamelin, saying: ‘Follow me and I’ll lead you to utopia and I’ll give you everything you want’.

And there was Theresa May portraying herself like Dick Turpin, saying: ‘I’m going to take your school meals, your heating allowance, and your triple lock and I’ll toss in a hand grenade as well otherwise known as the dementia tax.’

In little over two years we have had two Conservative Prime Ministers, the first David Cameron who, after the referendum left this country in total political limbo, and now Theresa May who has left us in total uncertainty.

One thing is for sure, it won’t be long before we do it all over again.

ALLAN WOODHAM, Nythe, Swindon

Little has been achieved

THE UKIP vote dropped all across the country in the General Election.

Even Paul Nuttall the leader of UKIP only managed 3,308 votes.

The strange thing was that it seemed that UKIP voters switched in large numbers to Labour. It was Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party that profited most from the decline in support for UKIP.

All the election has done is to make Theresa May weaker and Jeremy Corbyn stronger. It was hugely expensive and very little was achieved.

STEVE HALDEN, Beaufort Green, Swindon

Remember these Bill?

JUST to remind Bill Williams (recent letters) that Peter Manuel, Ian Brady and Thomas Hamilton (Dunblane massacre) were all from Glasgow or nearby. Manuel was born in New York of Scottish parents, and was in Lanarkshire from age five.

Maybe life isn’t so simple.

DANNY STURGEON, a fellow Scot, Nythe, Swindon