Electoral fallout after Manchester...

[Badweekjustgotworse]

First off, my heart is breaking for all those who were murdered last night and the families who've lost loved ones. There is evil in this world and that anyone could target a concert with such a huge number of children is beyond my comphrension

What will the political fallout be though? It can't be random that it happened so close to the election and must've in part been planned to destabilise our political system and process. How this is responded to be May and Corbyn will tell be telling. Obviously campaigning has been suspended for the meantime but when it swings back into action how much manipulation of people's fears about terrorism are going to be feed back into the campaigns? Will May try to take advantage of Corbyn's perceived lack of leadership and reticence to resort to hardline policies?

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