[Politics] Theresa May - worst Prime Minister for 50 years?

[Simster]

Nice enough lady, just not up to the job.

I'm struggling to see why you'd even say she was a nice enough lady. It doesn't seem to stand up to any scrutiny.

 

[Easy 10]

Called a general election in the run-up to the most crucial and turbulent political period in the countries modern history, ran an utterly dismal campaign where she refused to debate on TV, promptly pissed her majority up a wall as a result, and ended up having to spaff a billion quid (of our money) on the DUP to help prop her up.

Yeah, I'd say that puts her up there, even before the debacle thats unfolded over the last 2 years.

 

[neilbard]

Shirley Williams, she could do a job.

Not as a right back Shirley?

 

[Titanic]

Meanwhile, a Dutch newspaper have their own views..

 

[neilbard]

Meanwhile, a Dutch newspaper have their own views..

I wonder how they found out about how many casual sexual encounters she's had?

 

[Easy 10]

I wonder how they found out about how many casual sexual encounters she's had?

Orgies in the wheat fields.

 

[lawros left foot]

Only 50 years?

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

I'm struggling to see why you'd even say she was a nice enough lady. It doesn't seem to stand up to any scrutiny.

Anyone who is a Remainer at heart must be nice! Seriously though, take her away from politics and she is probably a very different person.

 

[lawros left foot]

I do actually think Cameron was far worse, but, she’s definitely in the top 2.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

I wonder how they found out about how many casual sexual encounters she's had?

Is Mr. May aware?

 

[Gilliver's Travels]

Still, she did bequeath to posterity that immortal phrase "No deal is better than a bad deal".

Being a bit of a pedant, I did wonder whether she was meaning that "no deal" is always better than any kind of bad deal. Or, alternatively, that there can be no deal that is better than a bad deal (ie a bad deal will always be best).

Whatever she meant, she very successfully "nego-si-ated" the baddest possible deal imaginable! Well done Theresa, trebles all round!

 

[Chicken Run]

This needs merging Shirley?

can the mods merge this please

 

[Wozza]

Meanwhile, a Dutch newspaper have their own views..

That's Photoshopped. FACT.

 

[Titanic]

That's Photoshopped. FACT.

No shit. But hilarious.

https://metro.co.uk/2019/01/17/no-theresa-may-the-wheatfield-runner-isnt-a-slag-8354779/

 

[Triggaaar]

No. She chose to stand for leadership knowing the situation.

So? Just because she stepped up to the plate doesn't mean the situation was any less shit.

 

[Superphil]

And reduced the Tory majority after calling an election she didn't need to !

Not all bad then?

 

[brakespear]

So? Just because she stepped up to the plate doesn't mean the situation was any less shit.

But she didn't have to - so why should be accorded any sympathy, at least on those grounds.

 

[DavidRyder]

Purely on her time in charge, not only has she not done anything remotely worthwhile, but has continually put party interest ahead of national (making last night's speech especially ludicrous), and overseen the worst attempt at negotiation since I tried to get off my last parking ticket. Alienated the EU, all opposition parties, and most of the country. Appears increasingly deluded and mad. That Tom Watson speech last night surgically ripped her to shreds. May has edged 'Call Me Dave' into second place IMHO.

Corbyn?

 

[Gwylan]

Corbyn?

Are you some time traveller from the future? Corbyn may, at some point yet to come, be one of the worst PMs, but he's not been PM yet

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Are you some time traveller from the future? Corbyn may, at some point yet to come, be one of the worst PMs, but he's not been PM yet

And l seriously wonder if he ever will be, Labour would have romped into power some time ago, with a more electable leader. Not that l particularly dislike the man, just that for a lot of the electorate, he is seen as being too far to the left.

But that l guess, is straying from the point of the thread.