Theresa May has resigned

[KenAdams]

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

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

I’d like to think we’re at an all time low and this might be the turning point where things improve but won’t hold my breath.

brilliotic I suspect you are right.

I obviously think agree with the poster who Sid she will be haunted but this, I feel she had good intentions, (although don't agree with many policies but disagree with JC more.

News last night was very depressing, full of people who voted Brexit party because obviously NF is amazing and the only one who can save the county

Boris was too chicken to do this back in 2016 when he got what "he wanted". Why should he get the job now.

I don't agree with a lot of what her Government has done, but I'm not sure anyone else could have done a better job of trying to implement the catastrophe that is Brexit.

My cat could do a better job. My cat would not have triggered article 50.

My cat also would not have overseen the growth of food banks, pushed people into more poverty and only been indiferent about people who have dies due to her party's policies.

Choked up at the end. She has had a tough old stint there.
I don't blame her. I blame all the other MPs who can't agree and stand together for the country's best interests. I'm a remainer but also respect democracy and that fact that the majority voted to leave means that what should happen.
Good luck to her successor!! I would not want that job!

I saw JC on Sunday breakfast and he certainly did not come across at all well.

I do feel for her. She did her best in the circumstances but her position was untenable.
I hope our next leader of the party is truly pro Brexit. It will most likely be Boris I think.

I don't feel a bit sorry for the woman who has overseen so much pain and suffering. She and her party responsible for the massive increase in food banks, children going to school hungry, disabled struggling and dying while waiting for benefits (www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/dwp-reveals-17000-people-died-13861427), those from the Windrush generation who were deported by her Government despite having worked and paid taxes in UK all their working lives. Where was her compassion for the Grenfell victims when she visited after the tragedy?. Where are her tears for all these people and many more?

@swimmerforlife Changing PMs is not the answer. I totally agree. In some scenarios a leader is waiting in the wings but in this case the names bandied around are much more horrific than Theresa May and there is no clear front runner, depressing for Britain.

She should have said bollocks to you all I am going for a drink. But I suppose she has to be professional.

I bet these people also think corbyn is a terrorist sympathiser. That's exactly what I think.

I blame David Cameron for this mess...

I think her sex is immaterial. Only the stupid and vapid will keep banging on about her 'emotional speech', it's irrelevant and horribly sexist and par for the course, unfortunately, to keep seeing it on MN which is so dominated by women.

I think she intended to do.a.good.job when she took over from David Cameron. But there was no plan. I think the only real plan for the last six months at least, has been to back-pedal out of Brexit as quietly and quickly as possible without letting on to the public. Everything that's happened with 'no deal' has been leading this way and now, TM's resignation was the 'final piece in the jigsaw'.

Cameron should be in prison and held to account for his reckless disregard for us all.

I wish TM peace and solitude. She won't get it though, because she's a woman. She'll be followed and hectored and photographed wearing something that the women of MN will decry as 'unflattering'. As if that even matters.

I hope that Brexit is now firmly enshrined into the 'bonkers file' of history, never to materialise again.

:)

Boris was too chicken to do this back in 2016 when he got what "he wanted". Why should he get the job now.

This ^^

"normal people"
a) define 'normal people', I assume you mean a clone of you.
b) Name a PM who you would consider to have been knowledgable of 'normal people'.

The only PM not to have attended university was John Major, the odious Corbyn comes from a very wealthy background so he can afford to spout his Marxism, it won't affect him.

I have never been a Tory but I really didn't want Theresa to go at least until brexit is sorted one way or another. The instability is one thing, and now we're likely going to get a 100x worse, hard brexiter, embarrassingly pathetic buffoon for PM. I feel quite ill at the thought and so do the stock markets . Ugh.

Well she had to go but the thought of Boris and a no deal or hard Brexit is fucking petrifying.

I blame David Cameron for this mess...

Totally agree, he should never have held a referendum in the first place.

I feel sorry for her but I also feel sorry for Bond villains when they get killed at the end. She was a terrible PM who made a difficult situation much worse. It galls to hear her talking about her love for the country when she spent past few years behind her love for the Conservative Party

theresa may she is just the daughter of thatcher, the witch who privatised everything

Yes, both female, so therefore exactly the same... Our PM's have been privatizing services for a while. The NHS was being sold off in chunks way before Theresa set foot in No.10.

As she is a woman, all the chat will now be about her emotions

That's because she started blubbing! And they were tears of anger because she has so little insight that she can't accept that this is her doing.

Save your sympathy, she has none for others and has been an abysmal PM.

She was weak and ineffective. The reason she's going now is because she was so shit and so good at making the wrong move at the wrong time, that the next PM - especially if the next PM has a penis - will be hailed as a saviour. Enter Boris.

Exactly so, BrendasUmbrella. Women are so hated by... everybody.

Can anybody come up with anything worthwhile her premiership has actually achieved?