Theresa May has resigned

[KenAdams]

What fresh hell awaits us now? She was really emotional.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48395905

As a Citizen of Nowhere I’m not sorry about this though very worried about who is coming next.

No tears for her. She shed no tears for the people of Grendel Tower, the people dead from having their benefits cut illegally or the kids bombed by UK funded weapons. Nope. She can piss off. And she wasn’t ‘handed a poisoned chalice’ - she pushed herself forward for the position to take the heat off Boris and Gove who fucked the country.
The only tragedy is that the candidates to replace her are horrific.

Ken Clarke for PM!

Honestly, could that be a possibility? If I have to have a Tory PM I want Ken. I honestly feel he’s a sensible, respected pair of hands that could sort Brexit out.

Awful woman. She will sail away somewhere with her millionaire husband not giving a shit about the mess she has left. God help us!

She’ll be fine just like David Cameron is fine.

We, however, will be stuffed.

I'm from the left and I absolutely do not agree with her welfare policies at all. But I have I know she has given everything she has to Brexit in what is the shittest situation, she has shown so much strength and determination.

David Cameron certainly did leave her down the shit creek without a paddle.

I wish her all the best.

can someone please try and explain to me in dummy terms what this means.what happens next?
please dont flame me,but try as i might to get up to date on politics etc and brexit and what is going on with the elctions and deal/no deal i just get so confused.please someone help!

Of course it will be Boris. After 3 yrs of A WOMAN we're surely long overdue for a white, privileged, male -ideally an Old Etonian.

Living proof of the adage "An empty taxi stopped at Downing Street and the Prime Minister got out."

Now for the Circus of the Unspeakables.

I’m a remainer and not a Tory voter. I also disagreed with her stance on Brexit.

However, she was doomed from the start. History will be kinder to her.

Out of the frying pan.....

She has trampled over people to get to where she is - they all do so I don't blame her for that, but it does mean you don't have to feel too sorry for her when she gets a taste of it herself. You live by the sword, you die by it.
The problems will be exactly the same for the next leader.

I have no sympathy for her. Yes brexit was a poisoned chalice. But she had several get out clauses that she refused to use. She could have pointed out that the referendum was one based on lies and cheating, and that the vote leave campaign broke the law. She could have put brexit on hold whilst there was a public enquiry into the referendum.
Instead she just kept repeating the phrase 'the will of the people '.

She was not handled a poison chalice, given a shit sandwich, or lumbered with an impossible task. She actively campaigned for and wanted the job of Prime Minister, she is not some innocent office junior mistakenly promoted to a job beyond her capabilities, she knew exactly what she was getting into.

Wow I'm actually really impressed with her now, judging by this thread she's fooled a lot of people!!

Feeling sorry for her because she's made the best of a bad job!!!! In what universe has she done that?!!!

• Immediately triggering article 50 with no plan.

• Failing to openly address right at the start the issues the British border with Ireland would cause.

• Setting down unnecessary red lines right at the start of negotiations with no prior discussion with any other parties that basically ruled out anything other than a very hard Brexit.

• Failing to involve opposition parties or the devolved institutions.

• Waiting til the 11th hour to start extremely half-hearted talks with the opposition where she made pretty much no compromises.

• carrying on and on and on where it was obvious she didn't have the backing of her own party, let alone the rest of parliament

Just to name a few!
(And not even to get on to the horrific consequences of her hostile environment and her failure to address austerity)

Seemed to me that she was caught between a rock and a hard place. I think we're politically in a very dangerous place at the moment. There is really no-one capable of running the country!

I don’t take pleasure in her (or anyone’s) personal disappointment - but I am surprised to see people saying she did a good job on the main task at hand.

She didn’t have to trigger Article 50 before having formed even the beginnings of a coherent plan.
She didn’t have to go on record with inflexible “red lines” which fettered the whole negotiating process from the start.
She didn’t have to waste a chunk of key negotiating time in 2017 on a hubristic general election which ultimately left her at the mercy of the DUP.
She didn’t have to sign off on a withdrawal agreement without first building a consensus in Parliament which she must have known she would need in order to give effect to it.

She’s not as bad as BoJo, but that’s about the best that can be said.

I am so so so far from being a fan, but all the current Tory alternatives look frighteningly-horrifically-leave-the-country, worse.

I cannot imagine who would be next, I daren't.

She took a poisoned chalice, foolishly, then set out her arrogant 'red lines' and backed herself into a corner. She knows damn well who is beenfiting from Brext financially, and who would do so in a no deal scenario, many of those close to her for a start. She has dragged thousands into poverty, crisis and suicide with her austerity bullshit.
I have no sympathy for her.

I dont feel sorry for her at all she knew what she was doing has pissed about with Brexit for ages put together the impossible deal which no one would agree to while pissing off the majority of the country and her government has cost lives austerity has cost lives

Refusing to investigate children dying after being handed over to abusive parents via family court is the icing on the cake her utter disdain for human life appalls me I hate that I share the same planet as her

kateandme we will now have 6 weeks of tory party leadership candidates hectoring each other, then a vote by tory MPs to get any applicants down to the final 2, who will be voted on by tory party members.

It's unlikely the EU will give us any longer than 31st October to sort Brexit so whoever gets the job needs to either revoke Article 50 or get a Brexit outcome in place within about 3 months.

I’m no Tory and a remainer, I think she did well to stay as long as she did despite being made a sacrificial lamb at the start of this (remind me, who else stood as leader, before bowing out before the vote? Ah yes, no fucker!) I think the last chance of a reasonable Brexit just went with her, it’s going to No Deal under Boris or Rees-Mogg or some other hard right opportunist who is allergic to workers rights. As someone who relies on prescription medication to stay alive i’m going to have to start stocking up now. What a fucking sad shitstorm hard right hole this country is becoming.

I truly believe she did her best

No, she didn't. The Brexit campaign was riddled with fraud. A competent PM would have pulled the plug as soon as that became apparent and insisted on a new, properly run referendum.

Exactly, I mean who's going to replace her and will be even better? I don't like the woman, but she's a better alternative than the likes of JRM or Boris Johnston (god forbid).

Even the thought of Gove being PM makes me sick.

Cant believe I am saying this but I would rather have bloody Jeremy Hunt than that lot.

She brought it on herself. She wanted to be PM so desperately that she went from campaigning for remain pre referendum to becoming a rabid Brexiteer to stay in the job. She is an unprincipled woman who was happy to say whatever was needed. She and her party have made the country a laughing stock, and it's going to get a lot worse before it gets better (if it ever does). I have no sympathy for her at all, she's crying for herself not the country she fucked over.