"Hitchhiker" results ... a political earthquake in the British elections

Al Jazeera Net - London

Britain - home of the famous novelist Alfred Hitchcock - remained faithful to the suspense and surprise, not only in the field of the novel, but in politics as well.

And the results of the parliamentary elections held last Thursday showed that the Conservative party won an overwhelming majority, while the Labor Party lost dozens of seats and achieved its worst electoral result in decades.

Throughout the campaign, no opinion polls expected the difference between the Labor and Conservative parties to be this large (161 seats). Rather, the latest poll conducted before entering the electoral silence period revealed that Labor had succeeded in narrowing the difference with the Conservative Party.

A political earthquake
Commenting on this, the head of the Middle East Montessor Center, Dr. Dawud Abdullah, describes the results of the elections "shocking", considering that all expectations were directed towards the convergence of the results between the two parties.

"It was expected that the Labor Party would form a coalition with the Scottish National Party and form a government majority, but what happened was a political earthquake by any measure that the country has not experienced since the time of Margaret Thatcher."

The British academic adds to Al-Jazeera Net that the parties ’position on Britain’s exit from the European Union was not the only decisive factor in choosing the British, considering that“ there is also a campaign against Jeremy Corbin, leader of the Labor Party, even by leaders in his party, and therefore the party entered the elections without unity Grade, which influenced the British voter's decision. "

Jeremy Corbyn, head of the Memo Center, returns to Jeremy Corbyn’s political backgrounds, to explain some of the controversy surrounding him, including that he has a relationship with revolutionary parties both in Venezuela during the era of Chavez and even with the Irish Labor Party, in contradiction to the British official line, as well as the spread of rumors of his relationship with Moscow and Russian intelligence And all these factors have an impact on the British voter.

On the impact of the election results on immigrants, Dawud Abdullah believes that Johnson will seek to implement a "tougher" immigration policy, and the Australian system will apply, i.e. recruitment of talent only, while the vulnerable groups, it will become very difficult to reach Britain.

Brexit elections
Regarding the surprise generated by the election results, the head of the Arab Forum for Thinking in London, Mohamed Amin, considered that it was not expected "because most of the analyzes were directed towards the victory of the conservatives, but by a small majority."

Speaking to Al-Jazeera Net, Mohamed Amin interpreted this result by the fact that the current elections were "the Brexit elections," stressing that the primary concern of the British voter on this electoral date is the exit file from the European Union and the state of tides and postponement that the British are fed up with.

Consequently, according to Amin, voters voted for Boris Johnson "because he has a clear vision about leaving the European Union by agreement, and the Conservatives have decided their decision toward leaving with an agreement."

And against the clarity of the Conservatives ’view of dealing with the Brexit, the same speaker sees that Jeremy Corbin chose neutrality and go to negotiate again with the European Union if he won, then he returns to the people to decide if he wants to come out with an agreement or stay, stressing that he is neutral, and here the problem lies. It is not useful, it is a suicide. "

Muhammad Amin turns to the economic side in his analysis of the election results, to confirm that the Labor Party’s economic program proposed achieving social justice, raising the tax on the wealthy for the benefit of the poor, and nationalizing some government institutions. This made “solid forces, the financial and business sector lining up against it,” and the size of the financial and media injection against Corbin The mutilation suffered by the man is unprecedented, "he said.

Corbin end
For his part, the head of the Arab Group in the Labor Party, Nihad Ismail, expresses his disappointment with the election results, yet he believes that what happened to him has causes within the Labor Party.

According to his opinion, among the reasons that the party entered the elections without a clear and convincing position is one of the most important issue currently being discussed, which is the Brexit, describing Corbin's position on this file, "It is strange and strange in return for Johnson's clarity and his insistence on leaving at any cost, and his ability to convince the voter that in Exit is an interest for the economy. "

And the British politician of Arab descent believes that "the next stage needs strong opposition in Parliament that will be able to restrain Johnson, who is now stronger than ever."

Ismail considers that the numerical data of the elections should be read slowly. "In the 2017 elections, the Labor Party got the most votes, but the distribution of seats gave the lead to the conservatives."

The Secretary of the Labor Party returns to one of the constituencies in London, considering that the party leader bears responsibility for what happened, saying, "It is true that the man was subjected to an unprecedented demonization, but he failed to present an attractive account to the voters."

He added that the electoral program that promised the largest budget in the country's history "was an ambitious program more than the capabilities of man, as well as fears that it is a program with a socialist whiff."