Theresa May is being trolled by the Lib Dems using their 404-error page
Incoming Prime Minister is being mocked about her decision to not hold a snap general election
LIB Dems won’t win a general election any time soon but they have come up with an original way of poking fun at incoming Prime Minister Theresa May.
Whenever users of the party’s website try to access broken links, an error message reading “Just like Theresa May's mandate, this page does not exist” appears.
The joke comes after Mrs May said she would not back a snap general election, going against demands for a contest from senior figures in Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Greens who say she has “no right to govern”.
If challenged, she is likely to argue that she has a mandate for a Tory government from the manifesto that won last year’s general election.
Lib Dem leader Tim Farron said “just 0.0003 per cent of people in the UK have backed May as their new Prime Minister” with 199 Tory MPs effectively deciding who the next leader of the country will be.
today, Mr Farron said it was “inconceivable” for her to stay on until 2020 without even having been elected by her own party and urged her to call an election to seek a “democratic mandate”.
Mrs May even faced calls from her own party last night to go to the polls.
Veteran Conservative grassroots campaigner John Strafford, of the Campaign for Conservative Democracy, said her election was “the biggest stitch-up since the Bayeaux Tapestry”.
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The Lib Dem 404 page is the latest in a series from the political party, with previous pages mocking Watford Borough Council's lack of Conservative representatives and David Cameron's supposed love of Aston Villa.
Others poked fun at David Cameron's lack of third term as PM, and Labour's lack of plan for the economy ahead of the 2015 election.
Their witty error pages have even gained their own sub-Reddit page, with users posting their favourite from the series, and earning the party the nickname 'the Snarky Party'.
On the sub-Reddit page one user, called TheAngryGoat suggested that, with just eight MPs, the message "just like Lib Dem MPs, this page seems to no longer exist" might be more fitting.