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Originally Posted by
the other bob wilson
No, let's call it a monumental and arrogant blunder by the Prime Minister and her advisors. I can remember avuncular old Jim Callaghan telling the country that he knew best and so he wouldn't hold the autumn election in 1978 that everyone was predicting. Instead, he held on and a few weeks later we were in the middle of the winter of discontent and the Thatcher Government became a certainty rather than a possibility, but I rate May's blunder as greater than Callaghan's given what we knew lay ahead for this country after the Brexit vote.