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The Snap Election: Not a One-sided Game

A media review from Planet 227


According to Wikibooks âSnapâ is a very easy game to play: âWhen two cards are laid of equal value, one player may call âSnap!ââ Â Perhaps thatâs why Tories are queueing up to hand Theresa May her cards, even calling âSnapâ at the right time seems to have been beyond her. Theresa, or as I like to call her, Teaser, or Tazer Maybe-Maybenot tried to Trump a Joker with her Queen. Â Iâm not sure what game that is, but it ainât âSnapâ! Playing cards Â© g4ll4is CC BY-SA 3.0 http://bit.ly/2sxfFtR via Wikimedia Commons

The mainstream media (MSM as itâs now called) like to call Corbyn a Marxist as if thatâs a bad thing. The Financial Times take Marxists seriously because they have analytical tools that seek to reveal the balance of opposing forces, not because they wear socks with their sandals, live in squats and only listen to Rage Against The Machine. Itâs not like me to give the Tories and the MSM advice but they really need a decent Marxist think-tank before embarking upon another game of âSnapâ. Had they one they would never have so arrogantly presumed a Snap General Election was a one-sided game.



Greg Cullen is an award-winning playwright, Artistic Director of Shock nâ Awe Performance Company and an organiser for Cardiff Peopleâs Assembly Against Austerity.