A woman’s blunt response to the Prime Minister’s announcement of a general election has sparked comparisons to Brenda from Bristol’s outburst seven years ago.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak yesterday took a huge gamble by pulling the trigger on an election for July 4.
Responding to the snap poll, a woman in Bury said yesterday: ‘Yeah, a general election Thank God. About time!’
Social media users were quick to liken the moment to pensioner Brenda, from Bristol, who captured the mood of the nation with her reaction to another election in 2017.
Theresa May shocked the UK when she announced voters would go to the polls, on June 8, 2017, despite previously denying she planned to hold an early vote.
A television interview of ‘Brenda from Bristol’, who screamed ‘not another one’ when she heard about the election, went viral as she protested that ‘there’s too much politics’ and the electorate should be given a break.
A woman’s (pictured) blunt response to the Prime Minister’s announcement of a general election has sparked comparisons to Brenda from Bristol’s outburst in seven years ago
Responding to the snap election called by the PM, a woman in Bury said yesterday: ‘Yeah, a general election Thank God. About time!’
Speaking soon after news of the 2017 election broke, Brenda from Bristol aired her frustration
Speaking soon after news of the 2017 election broke, Brenda aired her frustration to Mr Kay in a video which was posted on Twitter.
Asked how she felt in response to the breaking news, she said: ‘You’re joking – not another one. Oh for God’s sake, honestly I can’t stand this.
‘There’s too much politics going on at the moment, why does she need to do it?’
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Speaking in Bristol, Brenda added: ‘I think the whole country has had enough of politics, politicians telling us this, that and the other, and to have us in June for a General Election, no, definitely not.’
At the time, the General Election was the latest development in one of the most dramatic periods of modern British political history.
In September 2014, Scottish voters were asked to decide on the future of the United Kingdom in an independence referendum.
Just eight months later, electors across the EU went to the polls for the General Election, which gave the Conservative Party a narrow majority in the House of Commons.
But voters did not get much of a break as then Prime Minister David Cameron announced he would hold an historic referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union in 2016.
Social media users were quick to liken the moment yesterday to pensioner Brenda, from Bristol, who captured the mood of the nation with her reaction to another election in 2017
Voters turned out again to cast their ballots in the EU referendum after a long and bruising campaign which resulted in Mr Cameron’s resignation.
The election was an astonishing U-turn from the Prime Minister who had repeatedly said she would not call another ballot before 2020 – insisting it would cause instability and hurt the country.
In the election on June 8, 2017, the Tories lost their majority and were forced to form an alliance with the DUP.
Rishi Sunak has long insisted the next general election would happen in the second half of this year, which many in Westminster thought to mean October or November.
Yet on Wednesday afternoon, Mr Sunak stepped out into the pouring rain to deliver a speech outside Downing Street in which he called a surprise summer election on July 4.
Despite some backbenchers claiming the early poll date is a ‘death wish’, the defiant PM hopes signs of a recovering economy will help him overturn Labour’s 20-point opinion poll lead.