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Theresa May has resigned

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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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Langrish · 25/05/2019 10:29

IceRebel

Whoever comes in next won’t do a better job.”

Which a constituent in Maidenhead just agreed with on the news. Said he favoured Johnson and Williamson (so probably shouldn’t be allowed out in the community ...) but readily agreed that they wouldn’t necessarily do a better job and get a better deal than May. But he was still very glad she’d gone.

WT actual F? What is wrong with these people? Happily and knowingly encouraging an even worse, impossible though that seems, outcome.
Explains Brexit full stop. Here’s your choice. Stay as we are, ok it’s not perfect but it can be worked on, or stand alone waving your flags and making yourselves and everyone who follows you less secure and poorer with the rest of the world variously scratching their heads and laughing at your insanity.

Oh, the second option please 🤯

AlexaShutUp · 25/05/2019 11:22

I blame Theresa May for a lot of the shit that we're in now. There was a real consensus in parliament after the referendum that we had to implement the decision to leave, but it was 52/48 so there should have been some compromise on how we left. May should have consulted extensively at that stage with all parties in order to find a workable way forward, but instead, she just charged ahead with her idea about what Brexit meant, without reference to anything else. Inevitably, she failed to take everyone with her, and if we now end up with Boris as PM and a no deal Brexit, May will have a significant share of the blame in that.

Then, of course, there is the rest of the shit that's happening in the country. The shocking levels of poverty, the chronic underfunding of our schools and the gradual collapse of the NHS. Then there was the focus on creating a hostile environment while she was Home Secretary, which I believe was largely responsible for the rise in racism and the referendum result.

Overall, I think May has been an abject failure as PM, and we will be living with the consequences of her poisonous legacy for many years to come. Even so, she is a human being, and I really felt for her on a personal level yesterday, as it's hard to watch your dreams come crashing down around you, and to know that you've really messed up your one opportunity. I do believe that she is motivated by a genuine desire to serve and a strong sense of duty, and I don't think she actually set out to fuck the country up. Unfortunately, that's what she did though, and that must really, really hurt.

Disfordarkchocolate · 25/05/2019 11:33

I heartily agree with @AlexaShutUp, she's close behind David Cameron in her responsibly for the Brexit mess, but her actions as Home Secretary we shocking and inhumane.

The Conservative party can never agree over Europe, it splits them apart and no amount of unity over how to cut services to the bone or privatise the NHS can hide that.

FiremanKing · 25/05/2019 11:46

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StealthPolarBear · 25/05/2019 19:20

So we're going to have the incompetent buffoon who will take us out of the EU without a deal. Even though that was apparently legislated against. Was all that just meaningless hot air?

KenAdams · 26/05/2019 01:27

Andrea Leadsom has thrown her hat in the ring, as has Dominic Rabb. Leadsom would be ok but I don't really know enough about either of them to form a proper opinion.

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TheElementsSong · 26/05/2019 05:46

twitter.com/propertyspot/status/1132392974803976194?s=21

These No Deal candidates could test their theory by "walking away" from the leadership contest, and waiting for the party to come running to them.

longwayoff · 26/05/2019 07:57

What is properly blood-chilling is the vision of a proLeave+Tory coalition with Farage. OhhhhhhhAngry

Pomegranatepompom · 26/05/2019 08:15

Andrea Leadsom is awful, she was vile in the televised Brexit debate and her comments were led by ‘as a mother’, she pretty much said TM was unable to lead as she didn’t have children .
I vaguely remember how a newspaper did some digging into get employment background which she’d embellished quite a bit.

XXVaginaAndAUterus · 26/05/2019 12:52

Fuck her. I felt for her, because in a human being with empathy and I saw a person who was distressed until I remembered;

Couldn't be arsed to go to Grenfell, then couldn't raise a tear

Sent people to their deaths (Windrush)

Continued and worsened austerity, happily ignoring food bank stats and deaths from benefit cuts and universal credit

Made the deficit worse

Made the economy worse

Gave DUP more power and money than they ever dreamed of

Voluntarily took on the impossible job with her eyes wide open

Triggered A50 with no idea

Calling a GE with no idea

Railroading parliament

....

asblindasabat · 16/10/2022 11:35

She was certainly hard working.

Sparklingbrook · 16/10/2022 11:36

<checks calendar>

asblindasabat · 16/10/2022 16:12

The whole country is a mess. I wonder if May would have done things differently

NotMyselfWithoutCoffee · 16/10/2022 17:22

Why has this been zombied.

Sparklingbrook · 16/10/2022 17:27

NotMyselfWithoutCoffee · 16/10/2022 17:22

Why has this been zombied.

Very good question!

Thrownunderabus · 16/10/2022 17:29

@asblindasabat your username speaks volumes 😂

Pedallleur · 16/10/2022 17:32

asblindasabat · 16/10/2022 11:35

She was certainly hard working.

She is still working. Made over a million pounds on the lecture circuit this year. Prob can boost that again now with her inside knowledge

msssm · 16/10/2022 17:38

Thrownunderabus · 16/10/2022 17:29

@asblindasabat your username speaks volumes 😂

👍🏻

Quackpot · 16/10/2022 17:46

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KatherineJaneway · 16/10/2022 17:53

asblindasabat · 16/10/2022 11:35

She was certainly hard working.

Why are you resurrecting a Zombie thread?

asblindasabat · 16/10/2022 19:17

Thrownunderabus · 16/10/2022 17:29

@asblindasabat your username speaks volumes 😂

Ok that did make me laugh 😂

asblindasabat · 16/10/2022 20:18

KatherineJaneway · 16/10/2022 17:53

Why are you resurrecting a Zombie thread?

Because, I was wondering what peoples thoughts may be on how Theresa May would have handled the economic crisis in comparison to Truss.

Genuine question, is there a rule to say you can’t comment on a thread from a few years ago?

Sparklingbrook · 16/10/2022 20:22

Because, I was wondering what peoples thoughts may be on how Theresa May would have handled the economic crisis in comparison to Truss.

Start a thread and ask. The title of this thread is way out of date and people won't click on it in order to answer your specific question. More curious as to why an old thread has been bumped...

asblindasabat · 16/10/2022 20:23

Sparklingbrook · 16/10/2022 20:22

Because, I was wondering what peoples thoughts may be on how Theresa May would have handled the economic crisis in comparison to Truss.

Start a thread and ask. The title of this thread is way out of date and people won't click on it in order to answer your specific question. More curious as to why an old thread has been bumped...

More curious as to why an old thread has been bumped

I didn’t know it was forbidden!

WeAreTheHeroes · 16/10/2022 20:30

I thought it was very interesting to resurrect this thread. I never felt TM was clueless as PM. I think LT is completely out of her depth. Quite something to sack the Chancellor for doing what you wanted.

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