18/04/2017 South East Today


18/04/2017

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Welcome to Southeast is today. eight. And that is

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Theresa May calls a snap general election -

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what will it mean for some of the most fiercely fought

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It is with strong conviction that I see it is necessary to secure the

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strong and stable leadership of the country to see us through Brexit and

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beyond. Will Labour the Lib Dems or you could be able to win back seats

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from the Conservatives? Economic the country decide what we want so I

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think it is a good move. It could potentially bring more instability.

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reaction in Ramsgate, Hove and Westminster.

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Also in tonight's programme: Her toddler died after drinking

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methadone a Kent mother denies manslaughter by gross negligence.

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And the Seagulls flying high, Brighton and Hove Albion

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are promoted to the top division of English football for the first

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It's the announcement that caught everyone unawares,

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and it's already being dubbed the "Brexit Election".

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Just two years after the last general election, we're

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going to the polls again on June the 8th, after Theresa May

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called a snap election, claiming divisions in Westminster

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are jeopardising Britain's ability to make a success of Brexit.

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It means 29 seats will be up for grabs across the South East.

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Our Political Editor Helen Catt has been finding out

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if voters and politicians in Kent and Sussex think the Prime Minister

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From a Prime Minister not given to shocks, the biggest surprise

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announcements. Division in Westminster will risk her ability to

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make a success of Brexit and it will cause damaging uncertainty and

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instability to the country. So we need a general election and we need

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one now. In Gravesham 65% of voters chose to leave the EU. So two people

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in -- do people in Gravesend think she has made the right call? I think

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she's calling that because she knows she is in a good position. In my

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personal view I think she's in a good position. She probably does

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care for the country but I don't know why she wants an election. For

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me it is a total waste of money. Most people in the south-east will

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welcome the chance to vote for a five-year term, a government of five

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years that gives us the stability to get the EP in Deal laid out in

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everybody's interests and lay the ground for a stronger fairer Britain

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of the future. Calling a snap election is not without risk for

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Theresa May she is giving other parties the chance to make a dent on

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the blue map of the county 's three years early and by framing it as a

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Brexit collection she could be making life more difficult for

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Conservative MPs in remain voting places like Tunbridge Wells. Or

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remain voting marginal Lois and the local MP is a strong Brexit backer.

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If the people don't support this Prime Minister maybe they don't

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really want to get out of the EU, that would be right. Brexit is

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happening, it will probably just strengthen the hand. It will make

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the country decide what they want so I think it is a related move. It

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could potentially bring more instability, I think it would have

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been better if Theresa May had not been -- had been able to see through

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the process. I am very pleased that Theresa May has called this general

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election, the Green party have asked her to do this ever since she has

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pursued this extreme form of Brexit for which he has no mandate to the

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Green party will put forward a positive alternative to this extreme

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type of Brexit but also to the extreme cuts that we're seeing from

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this government. Some political experts believe there is no better

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time for Theresa May to go to the polls here. The further she goes on

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in government and will likely see is to see her majority shrink, she had

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a small working majority at the moment and it is likely that her

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approval in the opinion polls will go down over time so things will not

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get better for her and this is a good time to call a general

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election. A calculated risk, then, we will see that pays off in the

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south-east and seven weeks' time. This was the political map

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of the South East after the last General Election on the seventh May

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2015 - a sea of Conservative blue - with 27 of our 29

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constituencies voting Tory, apart from one

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Labour seat in Hove and Brighton Pavilion remaining

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Green. Then on the 23rd of June last

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year we went to the polls again to vote in the Brexit Referendum -

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with the South East voting

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