May has had years to get them round the table. She instead froze them out and waited until her deal was humiliated in the vote, and now with weeks left invites them for talks.
She inherited an outright majority from Cameron, so, -in theory- she didn’t need anyone else.
Obviously the further election she called backfired & didn’t strengthen her position but she still had the DUP for her majority.
Clear case of underestimating Hard Brexiteers in her own party, despite the very clear warnings.
So yes, could have been handled better by May, no doubting that at all.
Politics is still very tribal in this country unfortunately and therefore it isn’t usual to see Labour/Conservative cooperation.
So it wouldn’t be deemed “natural” for May to reach out to Corbyn before she ends up shit creek would it? We’d think May was weird or just well, up shit creek or something.
The comments on political threads on this forum are testament to the very tribal nature of politics in this country...& a lot of it is BS really.
It’s not like supporting a football team. No party has a monopoly on good ideas. I’m sure if they REALLY REALLY wanted to, Labour and Conservatives could find workable, compromise solutions on quite a lot of policies actually.
Personally, it’s something I’d like to see more of in British politics.
If Proportional Representation ever came in, you may find the two main parties have to work together in a so-called Grand Coalition. It would save a lot of the “vote in, vote out, vote in, vote out” changeabilty / “rip it up & start again” nature of policy. It would also help to avoid left/right extremes in policy. Not a bad thing imo. Maybe a bit bland for some. But I’d take it.