What’s your take on Theresa May’s election campaign? – Bill, Aberdeen

WITH each passing week, the theory that Theresa May is intentionally trying to lose this General Election gains more and more traction. Following a humiliating U-turn regarding her flagship social care policy and a disastrous interview with the BBC’s Andrew Neil, it’s looking very much like the “strong and stable” leader has been exposed as weak and wobbly.

May’s sit-down chat with Neil was one of the most skin-crawlingly awkward interviews in recent political history. It was akin to watching a giraffe on roller skates attempting to navigate an ice rink. As Neil proceeded to ask the Prime Minister a series of reasoned and simple questions, Theresa grew visibly shaken. By the end of the half-hour, she resembled a kite in a hurricane whose only means of escape was to repeat the same ham-fisted sound bites over and over again.

The catastrophic interview begged the question: if this is what the relatively friendly Andrew Neil can reduce the Prime Minister to, how on earth can she be expected to handle Brexit negotiations with the EU’s top brass? Furthermore, the Tory manifesto itself only lasted a matter of days before having to be heavily re-written. Frankly, I’d be shocked if the UK itself would last so long outside the EU with May at the helm!

Theresa’s calamitous campaign has opened the door for the now very real possibility of Prime Minister Jeremy Corbyn. Apart from his irritatingly dismissive attitude towards Scottish independence, I’ve always had a lot of respect for Jez, and I championed him heavily on his rise to become leader of the Labour Party.

As he inched closer to the top, I never doubted that Jeremy Corbyn could become Prime Minister. Moreover, his diehard bubble of support has continued to expand and, unlike the alt.right’s, is yet to burst.

The wave of momentum that surrounded the likes of Trump, May and Farage around the time of Brexit has most certainly crashed. They have all been exposed a cheats, cowards and clowns. Jeremy Corbyn, on the other hand, has been exposed as little more than a kind-hearted lefty with the same demeanour as your socially awkward uncle.

For all Jez’s supposed ungainliness, the youth love him, and his support continues to grow. I am now convinced that Corbyn could very well be the next PM, and nothing would signal the utter collapse of the alt.right like such a noble event. Jeremy Corbyn would do a far better job of negotiating a Brexit deal with the EU as, unlike Theresa May, he has been nothing but humble regarding the process of the UK leaving the organisation.

Better still, he would be far more reasonable regarding a potential indyref2 than May ever would, and he could also oversee the formation of a united Ireland should he become PM. As much as I want to see an SNP clean sweep in Scotland, I am hoping that England does the right thing and elects Big Jez to the highest office in the land.

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Time to call out those wearing tinfoil hats

What are your feelings on the tinfoil hat elements of political Twitter?

Fraser, Glasgow AS much as critical thinking is welcome in the political world, conspiratorial thoughts are frequently dangerous and can often humiliate innocent people caught up in their destructive wave. The appearance of an upset nurse in the audience of a recent BBC leaders' debate is a prime example. This member of the public service rightly challenged Nicola Sturgeon on issues regarding hospitals. However, due to her appearing on BBC Question Time days before, many swiftly leapt to the conclusion that she was an establishment plant.

Moreover, rumours soon spread that the nurse was in some way related to a Tory councillor. These reports were all entirely unfounded, and yet were repeated by some SNP politicians – even I was swept up in the groundless momentum of the story!

As much as the British Broadcasting Corporation is likely to take a British perspective on things, to view literally everything the organisation produces as in some way meticulously planned to make Nicola Sturgeon look bad is ridiculous.

What starts as light-hearted criticisms of the angle of the BBC’s weather map can for some take a turn towards the darkest of conspiratorial thinking.

Much of Donald Trump’s campaign was built on unfounded conspiracy nonsense – Trump is even on record as saying he would like the investigation into 9/11 reopened.

Sadly, exploiting national tragedies to forward a different agenda is not isolated to America. This week’s heart-breaking attack in Manchester has shown that many are willing to twist events to suit their own narrative – whether that is anti-Islamic, anti-Tory or anti-Corbyn. This should not be tolerated in any decent form of society, and we must be vigilant of such exploitative actions. Speak out. Do not stand for it.