[Misc] Do you feel sorry for Theresa May

[Westdene Seagull]

This is an excellent point (my wife works at that coalface too), but I think that is more to do with that tosser, IDS. Not that she has done anything to resolve the mess of course. In fact, that is another thing that ought to get everyone angry. Because of the Brexit mess, the Conservatives haven't really been held to account for this particular shit show or anything else.

I do it once a week and find it shameful that in a country that is in the richest 7 that I'm sneaking an extra can of beans into someone's bag because I feel guilty I can go and buy the food I want. Normally you get four visits per referral ..... after that you need re-referring for another four visits. You only get 'four' days food ( in reality it would be a stretch to last two days ). Then there are cases such as one assylum seeking who has been to us for 96 weeks ( yes NINETY SIX WEEKS ) .... because the Home Office don't have the resources to deal with his application ( he has two children and a wife and I always double up his supplies ). DISGUSTING doesn't do the situation justice - I normally go home and have a good cry after helping out.

May is directly responsible for this.

 

[Perfidious Albion]

I do. It is easy to criticize but nobody has faced this situation before. She has contended with a divided govt and received no support.

Worst P M.?
At least she has not taken us to an unwanted war like Blair, or run up a huge deficit like Brown.

 

[SurreySeagulls]

Farewell Theresa May. Not just an appalling and useless prime minister but also an awful human being. She finally shamelessly showed some emotion and cried when her consistently poor decisions affected her life - but never when her actions involved disabled people dying after having their benefits stopped, English born people being sent 'back' to die alone in strange countries or countless other barbaric acts.

She will be rightly be remembered as being as a PM who was lacking in ability as she was empathy. A career politician who couldn't see past her own ambition. Good riddance.

Sadly the only thing we can be sure of now is that the next lunatic the Tory party has lined up will be as bad or worse. Well once all the knives have been pulled from her back now that they are all saying what a wonderful person she was. More treachery in the Tory party then there is on the high sees

 

[dejavuatbtn]

Yes, i do. I can see the person there and I have respect for her tenacity and determination and commitment. Certainly when comparing with her predecessor she is head and shoulders above, and she kicked that little shit Osborne out which puts her in my good books. There really is no such thing as a good Tory prime minister, but at least this one wasn't blatantly in it for herself and her cronies.

Agree, but my main gripe with her was her running out of cabinet members to the extent that Grayling seemed to be indestructible - now there was an MP out of his depth.
At least she put her head above the parapet to try and unpick the shambles left by Cameron. Her biggest disaster was the general election - schoolgirl error.

 

[BLOCK F]

No sympathy, I will post a more expansive explanation of why after I finish work and get Mrs V to the doctors and back.

Can't wait!

 

[Eeyore]

Just checked the parliament recess date. It's July 20th. The Tories have to have a leader in place by then as they need to have a majority command in the house to take over as PM.

If not May will continue until at least September 5th with someone else as Tory leader.

 

[thejackal]

No. She was an awful PM and an even worse Home Secretary, if that's actually possible.

 

[symyjym]

https://youtu.be/Tal_EkY-efs

 

[Justice]

No she’s a self obsessed c#nt, she seems amazed poor people exist, thinks disabled are some how conning the system and chooses totally the wrong people to go all immigration on.

 

[mikeyjh]

I don't think she was dealt a bad hand. She was an opportunist who was stupid enough to take over as leader when everyone knew it was an impossible job. I can't stand Gove or Johnson but even they stepped away after Cameron left because they knew whoever took it was going down in history as the PM who messed it all up. I think she brought it all on herself.

Well, to extend the analogy, she was the one who walked in to the casino, she put down the big bet, she knew the first three cards and stayed in the game. Crocodile tears from a self interested idiot.

 

[Wellesley]

Gove was a Brexiter and was favourite, and he stepped out of the race before it had even begun, then Boris a Brexiter withdrew, David Davies a pro Brexiter also ran, in the straight out of the building sense.

Are any of the names you mention Brexiters?

Not sure what that has got to do with my reply. You said that none of her colleagues stepped forward to be leader as though she was the only one willing to take the job on. I gave four other names of her colleagues that put themselves forward.

 

[Blue3]

I've no sympathy with anyone in our political system. It's broken and it needs fixing irrespective of what happens with Brexit.

I have been saying for several years that our political system based upon a capitalist western world is as you say broken it can be patched up but not fixed as its dying

 

[Lincoln Imp]

No, she knew what she had to do I suppose the only slight sympathy is the total dis-loyalty of her own fellow Conservative MPs which is quite shocking in my view with too many MPs now having just a personal agenda and not doing what they were elected to do.

With respect, MPs primary loyalty should be to their country, not their party. Many MPs (including most of the ERG ultras with whom I profoundly disagree) are acting in what they feel is the national interest.

Mrs May's motives on the other hand run in the opposite direction. She has been driven by the need to hold the Conservative Party together and has shown little concern for the wellbeing of the nation. I find it difficult to summon up a single gram of Christian sympathy for this diversive and duplicitous woman. The fact that she may well be replaced by someone as bad makes no difference.

 

[symyjym]

Not sure what that has got to do with my reply. You said that none of her colleagues stepped forward to be leader as though she was the only one willing to take the job on. I gave four other names of her colleagues that put themselves forward.

Not too sure if this answers my question? My point was all the Brexiters ran away, but I guess you are objecting to the comedy sketch and I need to be 100% accurate in detail?

Your turn: Are any of the names you mention Brexiters? I suggest the Breixters stepped back.

 

[The Clamp]

after her speech this morning?

Nope. Terrible at her job. Leaving your job in a whimper of fake tears after citing a few questionable achievements and blaming everyone else for the Brexit **** up is about the least dignified exit one could make.
Plus, never feel sorry for a millionaire.
Ghastly woman.

 

[Doc Lynam]

Looking forward to see the latest Tory production of the Lord of the Flies!

 

[portlock seagull]

Yes I do. She’s tried to do her level best in public office and has made plenty of mistakes along the way but I never doubted her core belief in duty and public service. Fact she’s not been able to is entirely due to our fractured state. Moreover she’s proved no one else exists that could do any better. As the next person and the next after them will demonstrate. Because there’s no compromise on this issue. It cannot be resolved amicably.

 

[Wellesley]

Not too sure if this answers my question? My point was all the Brexiters ran away, but I guess you are objecting to the comedy sketch and I need to be 100% accurate in detail?

Your turn: Are any of the names you mention Brexiters? I suggest the Breixters stepped back.

Gove, Leadsom and Fox were all Brexiteers as far as I know. You never mentioned Brexiteers in the post I replied to, so I'm not sure what you are on about. Very boring, so whatever point you are trying to make, I'll leave you to it.

 

[albion68]

I have been saying for several years that our political system based upon a capitalist western world is as you say broken it can be patched up but not fixed as its dying

Are you saying you want a marxist Government .?

 

[Juan Albion]

No, I feel sorry for her husband.