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Theresa May has resigned

231 replies

KenAdams · 24/05/2019 10:12

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

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

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Aveeno2017 · 24/05/2019 11:33

I bet David Cameron is sat somewhere hot and having a right good laugh! What a twat he is!!

LillithsFamiliar · 24/05/2019 11:33

She wasn't handed a poisoned chalice. She actively volunteered to take it because it meant she could be PM. Plus as a Remainer, she's probably happy that we're still in the EU and no closer to any kind of agreement across parliament. I'm sure she would have preferred a better legacy but ultimately she wanted power more than she valued principles.
All the nonsense about her emotions is annoying as is the idea that someone else will be better. Boris has shown he's an unprincipled weasel. He's our version of Trump and I'll be embarrassed if he becomes PM.

Pomegranatepompom · 24/05/2019 11:36

It's slim pickings, couldn't bare JRM.

FFSeverynameisused · 24/05/2019 11:43

bullied out of her job by people who are now 'sorry' to see her go and wishing her luck. fucking vultures.

She could have offered the moon on a stick and it wouldn't have been enough.

She only tried her best.

And who ever is next will be no better.

Boris or Corbyn in a general election? Fuck that and move abroad.

brilliotic · 24/05/2019 11:51

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

Well somebody had to be the 'fall guy' so that the next person can come in and be the hero/saviour. I think everybody knew that whoever took over from DC would be that person. Hence why nobody wanted the job.

I'm still not sure if TM actually thought she could avoid that fate, and is now angry and disappointed that she (inevitably) failed. Or if she reckoned with this ending all along, but figured it would be worth it for the 36 months of mixing with highest levels of political leaders, and long term career prospects.

TravellingSpoon · 24/05/2019 11:53

The future for our country is getting bleaker by the day.

Thinkinghappythoughts · 24/05/2019 11:53

It just goes to show how convoluted and devilishly hard it is keeping up with the Brexit handling, if people genuinely think TM had a good go and it wasn't her fault it didn'twork out.

TM has been shockingly incompetent. The government had to be told twice by the supreme court to let parliament vote on article 50. Her government is the first ever to be found in contempt of parliament. The whole great repeal bill. Calling a general election just to increase your majority (and losing it!). Putting the WA to parliament 4 times!!! Allowing ministers to lie to parliament. Bribing MPs to vote for the WA. She has attempted strong-man dictatorship tactics many times.

She hasn't been stabbed in the back ffs. She offered to go as a crack-handed deal to get WA votes. She was just shit at her job. Fortunately (for her) she was doing at a time when no-one wanted it or the timing was too sensitive to change leader.

Personally I feel a bit sorry for her (because I'm a soft touch). But she really fucked up. Her "no deal is better than a bas deal" normalized no deal and shifted the goal posts much further to the right.

Like others though, who is coming next? Will they go in a guns blazing as a leaver (like May did), and fuck it up even further?

AlunWynsKnee · 24/05/2019 12:00

brilliotic I meant something practical for people like funding for schools, lowering crime, improving mental health provision etc rather that just political shenanigans.

Purplecatshopaholic · 24/05/2019 12:01

She has the empathy of a breeze block. I am off abroad at this rate - taxi for Purplecat...!

Frith2013 · 24/05/2019 12:03

If only she had been emotional over Windrush/migrant deaths/universal credit etc.

Thinkinghappythoughts · 24/05/2019 12:04

Just my post was all about Brexit. For 3 years, it has all been about Brexit. The number of children in poverty and homelessness is still rising. And all the other crap that is too depressing to list. How can a Tory - the top Tory - claim to love their country and actively inflict the misery on a substantial proportion of the population?

pineapplebryanbrown · 24/05/2019 12:05

I'd definitely put a tenner of it being BoJo, Lord help us. On the plus side, not sure it's possible to get worse.

brilliotic · 24/05/2019 12:08

AlunWynsKnee,
I figured that's what you meant, but I kind of drew a blank.

Who knows, maybe it was all part of an elaborate conspiracy plan to get us out of Brexit altogether? If it was, and if it works, and it all depended on someone stepping up to be the 'fall guy' and TM sacrificed herself for that, then I guess she has achieved something! But we wouldn't know until her secret diaries are made public in 200 years time or so... meanwhile, I wouldn't bet on it. She isn't the self-sacrificing type.

LillithsFamiliar · 24/05/2019 12:22

She's not self-sacrificing but even being a bad PM is better than being Home Secretary. Look at the contracts past PMs walk into. Professionally she is in a much better place now than she was before she became PM.

Someone was tweeting about the glass cliff and I think it's quite accurate. She got this opportunity because everyone knew being the PM after the referendum was going to be a disaster but she wouldn't have had the opportunity at any other time.

brilliotic · 24/05/2019 12:27

Lillith, so do you think she never expected a different outcome, will now happily move on to reap the career benefits, and all her 'emotions' now are for show? Or did she delude herself into believing that she could do the impossible, and is now genuinely upset that it didn't work out?

I can't quite make up my mind what to think.

LarkDescending · 24/05/2019 12:32

Looks like Sir Graham Brady may run. Any views on whether he would be less awful than his likely rivals? (It’s all relative).

LarkDescending · 24/05/2019 12:35

BTW I don’t buy the idea that TM was a stealth Brexit-blocker. As I see it she only paid lip service to the Remain campaign, thinking she was backing a winning horse, and switched sides with relish after the referendum. (See also: Jeremy Corbyn).

TheElementsSong · 24/05/2019 12:36

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THREAD. What is Theresa May’s legacy on immigration?

Peregrina · 24/05/2019 12:36

I don't think she will do all that well on the Lecture circuit - she is the most wooden of speakers.

TheLastNigel · 24/05/2019 12:36

I don't like to see anyone fail. And much less a woman in power. On a human level I feel sorry for her. But I dont think she's done a good job in the slightest. Yes it was always going to be difficult-but her actions and attitude have made it worse. Plus whilst Brexit has dominated, fuck all has been done about anything else. Overall I feel angry and disenfranchised and sorry for us all as a nation.
I'm scared for what comes next.

I'm sitting in an office with a perfectly nice, reasonable, educated bunch of colleagues aged between 20 and 56. We work in socks care which you would assume would be left leaning. They all voted for 'Nigel Farage' Via the Brexit party yesterday and seem to believe he is the 'only one with a plan'. God help us.

LarkDescending · 24/05/2019 12:39

TheLastNigel

Socks care? Sounds quite niche - but presumably equally balanced between right and left Smile

tomtom1999xx · 24/05/2019 12:40

Tbf, she was always a remainer at heart so should never have taken the job.

MrPan · 24/05/2019 12:43

She is a fucking politician who grabbed power when she could. And fucked it all up.

Sympathy? You are fucking kidding. Her cock up and stupidity has invited Farage to fill a vacuum.

Peregrina · 24/05/2019 12:57

I don't think she's was a Remainer. I think it's something she never thought much about, but thought that Cameron would win, so voted to be on his side.

Whosorrynow · 24/05/2019 12:58

Wealthy powerful people are strongly inclined to naturally and instinctively do things that benefit themselves and those like them, we are all pawns in their games

TL:DR the wealthy and Powerful work for the wealthy and Powerful