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Westministenders: Up Shit Creek without Wifi.

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RedToothBrush · 29/04/2017 22:12

Theresa May is being held hostage.

There is mounting evidence that all is not as it seems at CCHQ. It makes you don your tin foil hat and ask who is in charge.

Theresa May was a Remainer. She suddenly abandoned that when she became leader. Her proclamation of what would follow next seems directly at odds with her actions. This is not her fault. This is her plea for help and way of telling the outside world that she is a prisoner of Brexit.

At first it seemed like perhaps she had been locked up with Brexiteers for too long. She seemed to be developing a survival strategy which seemed totally irrational to outsiders. The signs of intimidation everywhere though. Instead of criticising those who did this, May joined in with them or was complicit in her silence.

Things are now taking a sinister turn. After repeatedly saying ‘No Election’, May crumbled and called one. She has now not been seen in public since. Instead she is being wheeled out at closed events to the party faithful. They are being dressed as mixing with the people but they are no such thing. The plebs in attendance are set to ‘mute’ or locked out completely.

Behold the coming of the May-Bot. She seeks to ‘prevent tourism’ in Wales. She now no longer knows which town she is currently in. (Much less have a plan for Brexit). She accuses an organisation set up to use its numbers to get better deals, of doing what it is supposed to, except she calls this ‘ganging up’.

May is not transported in a bus. Oh no. Instead she travels by the Bond Villian’s choice of transport; the helicopter.

More worrying still is the mantra ‘Strong and Stable’ repeated as many times as possible. It is almost as if, if she says it enough she might start believing it. She certainly has got her party members brainwashed and acting as if they were Zombies. Who needs ‘Spice’ when you are a Conservative? They ‘Believe’…

The ploy is to hoodwink people into voting for May instead of the Tories. CCHQ have removed Conservative branding from literature and campaigning in the North. The party are still too toxic, but May apparently scores well especially against Corbyn. Ironically however negatively I think of Corbyn he does display something May increasingly seems incapable of: humanity.

Many people might think of May as some sort of dictator figure. Its true. Every vote for her strengthens her hand. But not for Brexit negotiations. Mainly because Brexit is without merit or reward. Not unless you hold power. This is part 2 of the grab for it.

This is May’s power paradox. SHE is not powerful. She isn’t persuasive. She isn’t a healer of divides. She relies on authoritarian measures to get her way. This isn’t a sign of her personal power, but a sign of her personal weakness. She is sly and sneaky in her methods rather than compelling others to come along with her. They are doing so more because they dislike the alternative in Corbyn less.

She is not stable. She has lurched from one drama to the next, and has repeatedly been forced to back down from what she wanted. Nothing says ‘stability’ and ‘good leadership’ like appointing Boris Johnson Foreign Secretary. The lady is not so much for turning and leading, but is already staggering around dizzy whilst blindfolded playing pin the tail on the donkey. And Christ she’s got a lot of them in her Government. Including the numpty who decided to do a live event and broadcast it in an area with no wi-fi. Mind you, that is soon to be the entire country. Or what’s left of it.

She had said she had a mandate for Brexit and did not need this to be approved by the country as she was getting on with the job. This is why we are having a General Election to give her a mandate…

Not only that, but there is a lurking question here that should not be forgotten. Who is pulling May’s strings and making her dance as her actions are not natural? Every puppet show has puppet masters behind the scenes of the stage, hiding in the shadows.

They will dispense with their toy once she has outlived her usefulness like every good baddie.

Is she the one we should be most fearful of?

Hold on tight this is going to be a very bumpy ride over the next two years. Just how many casualties will be sacrificed on the altar of Brexit?

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woman12345 · 29/04/2017 22:24

Great post as usual, thanks RedToothBrush Flowers
Without doubt one of the spookiest tory campaigns I've ever seen.

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HashiAsLarry · 29/04/2017 22:24

Flowers rtb

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Badders123 · 29/04/2017 22:26

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BestIsWest · 29/04/2017 22:30

Why do I do this to myself? I can't keep away. It's like Shere Khan in Jungle Book.

Thanks Red.

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Motheroffourdragons · 29/04/2017 22:30

Thanks, Red

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Headfullofdreams · 29/04/2017 22:31

Great post as always, Red.

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thecatfromjapan · 29/04/2017 22:33

Very good summing up, RTB.

I do find it odd that TM is seen as a safe pair of hands.

Ds pointed out that the Conservatives are like a football team 9 goals ahead (because the opposite team scored a whole load of own goals), with a very, very bad striker. All they have to do is play a very defensive game and, ideally, keep their striker on the bench.

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MangoSplit · 29/04/2017 22:38

Place marking

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woman12345 · 29/04/2017 22:57

DT has tories down to 11 point lead.

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illegitimateMortificadospawn · 29/04/2017 22:58

Flagrant placemark - a strong and stable one so I can lurk without challenge for the next 5 years.

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MitzyLeFrouf · 29/04/2017 23:06

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Bearbehind · 29/04/2017 23:07

Nice summary RTB.

it's more than a little telling that the leavers round here have all decamped.

This is a fuck up on an epic scale and all we can do is stand back and watch.

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CopperRose · 29/04/2017 23:08

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Cupofteaandtoilet · 29/04/2017 23:13

Ta. I'm in.

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Peregrina · 29/04/2017 23:16

I don't know who this blogger is, but he makes some good points. Sometimes he overdoes it a bit, but the substance is there.

I agree with Red - they will dispense with May as soon as she stops serving their purpose. Those of you who were around then will remember how Thatcher was knifed in the back as soon as she outlived her usefulness.

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Mistigri · 29/04/2017 23:18

That YouGov poll is a shocker! Down 11 pts in a week. Evidently you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

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Mistigri · 29/04/2017 23:22

Looks like the Brexit Arms has gone out of business. Maybe reality is starting to dawn.

Going to bet that in 18 months time, remain will be polling >60% and people will be starting to have selective recall about which way they voted.

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Bearbehind · 29/04/2017 23:23

I thinks it's bloody marvellous the Tory ratings have descended- TM's arrogance will hopefully be her downfall.

Hopefully people we see that making appearance in towns where the audience is preselected and she don't even know where she is makes her look a prize twat.

As for ducking out of tv debates- I hope to goodness people see that for the cowardice it actually is.

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Bearbehind · 29/04/2017 23:24

Excuse the typos in that- I sound completely illiterate!

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woman12345 · 29/04/2017 23:31

In fact that 11 point lead is old news, it was the case a week ago, (I didn't see it reported?) May in a wifi free wood and preventing tourists from Wales isn't playing as well as Corbyn who is getting slightly less mediated coverage than usual, because of election coverage rules. He was ridiculed for facing the 'wrong' way in press conference a few days ago, when in fact he was turning to thank and engage with real people rather than cameras. Who knows what's round the corner.

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Peregrina · 29/04/2017 23:32

Going to bet that in 18 months time, remain will be polling >60% and people will be starting to have selective recall about which way they voted.

Ha, this is like my (current) MP, Nicola Blackwood, who has spent ten months telling us about the 'will of the people' and voted with the Tory whip each and every time. She suddenly woke up to the fact that she was in a Remain constituency so tried to remind us that she voted Remain. Unfortunately for her, some of her constituents have long memories. Many of them are very internet savvy and can easily look up her voting record.

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HesterThrale · 29/04/2017 23:39

Thanks rtb. This whole epic narrative is addictive; I have to keep reminding myself it's not fiction.

May and Farron both on Marr tomorrow. Hope Marr asks some unscripted questions.

When Tusk talks about securing the rights of 'EU citizens', I feel sad that doesn't include those EU citizens who are UK Remainers. We stand to lose so many rights. Sometimes I harbour a glimmer of hope that we won't be abandoned by the EU, but I can't see a workable solution to this whole sorry, unnecessary mess.

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prettybird · 30/04/2017 00:04

The Telegraph has posted the shocking revelation that they are now in the lead over Labour in Scotland Shock

....they conveniently omit that "other" (which will include SNP) is polling at 57% presumably mostly SNP and that the Tories have reached the heady heights of 27%. Way to go Grin (Quite apart from the fact that this is a subset of a bigger poll so the margin of error will be even larger)

Just goes to show how lies, damned lies and a media bias can manipulate "facts" Sad

Westministenders: Up Shit Creek without Wifi.
Westministenders: Up Shit Creek without Wifi.
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Jellykat · 30/04/2017 00:22

Abso-bloody-lutely Red

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BigChocFrenzy · 30/04/2017 00:49

Thanks red Flowers

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