to be impressed with Theresa May?

[SunnyInMay]

I'm a traditional Labour voter who feels alienated by the party and Corbyn.

Theresa May really seems like a breath of fresh air in listening to peoples concerns and understanding what matters to ordinary voters.

I know words are easy to say and the proof will be in the action she takes in the years to come but I have a good feeling about her.

Name she even looks evil on a par with the poster proclaiming her looking like skeletor and remarking on her lack of children.

Bizarre and mysogynistic.

Add racist and you could be John Mc Donald your dear leaders henchman.

Dear God poor Corbyn beloved by Tories everywhere as the man who, along with Foot,will bring the Labour Party to its knees, again.

I see someone uprbread called for a general election. Please yes, labour will be utterly trounced and even the massive egos of Corbyn and Mc Donald would see they had to go.

Then we might get a decent opposition.

James O'Brien wasn't on the BBC

He presents NewsNight when Evan Davis or Kirsty Wark don't. He may have made these comments on a non-BBC radio, but he did broadcast them, so we know he is partial. Therefore, how can he then be employed to interview politicians, if we all know that he is "taking sides."

EllyMayClampett
I am surprised that James O'Brien can conflate Hitler and Amber Rudd (and no, her speech sounded nothing like that) and still be allowed to host NewsNight. Isn't the BBC news supposed to maintain at least a fig-leaf of impartiality?

The BBC's fig leaf of impartiality is as transparent as filo pastry - you can see right through it to the Labour Luvvies.

PS Love your name

We are all going on about the foreign workers' list, but presumably all of you have been asked by your childrens' schools to provide details of your childrens' countries of birth and their nationalities during the last couple of weeks, in time for the schools' census which is to be run tomorrow?

In hindsight Hilter is perceived as evil. He wasn't when he was elected. Mussolini did no end of good in Italy to improve living conditions. The point is we look at the end results of their actions and think that could never happen here but we fail to look at the early stages when they were everyone's darling providing solutions to their country's day to day problems. People go on about WW2 and how we fought for freedom but I think a lot forget, or don't know, what the freedom we were fighting for was. I think to many it was just about fighting the Germans purely from a territorial point of view.

anything is racist is just being a 'liberal elite'

And anyone who thinks it isn't is xenophobic or 'Tory scum'

We were all really pleased that Thatcher was the first female PM as well until she set to work. Look at all the damage she did.

Where did it say she would ask British industry to publish lists of foreign workers?

I was at a (different) conference this week which talked about quantifying the numbers of non-UK workers in order to ensure that parity was shown in ensuring those were all jobs that could not be done by/would be advertised to UK workers.

There's a lot of hysteria on this thread.

I think, compared to the imploded Fool's Party that is currently Labour, she is reassuring and fair.

The noises coming out of cabinet regarding provisions for EU workers currently here are both fair and compassionate.

Most sensible people are not demonstrating the level of silly panic on this thread.

Students in tears? FFS. Do some research. There is nothing to suggest the witch hunting some people seem determined to see.

May will make the Thatcher years look like a Care Bears picnic. Reap what you sow.

I think she's a lying snake. I think she will say whatever she needs to con underprivileged people that she is on their side. I think she's shown what a complete no hoper she is going to be in Brexit negotiations. She's already given away the best bargaining chips. I think she has no economic plan apart from hoping for luck and a fair wind. I think she's going to get a free run at fucking this country up and I dont know if we will ever fully recover.

It's awful that it will only really dawn on people what a bad job Brexit is after we are 2 - 3 years down the line.

I am very sad about the xenophobia that has come to dominate British politics. I am scared at the lack of public services we are going to have in the future.

I equally blame Corbyn for failing so dismally to hold her to account.

I was listening to Tim Minchin railing against anti intellectualism this morning. "I want leaders so clever I can't understand them! I want them to have PhDs coming out of their wazoos...."

May will make the Thatcher years look like a Care Bears picnic.

What exactly do you think she will do?

It's currently illegal under UK law to discriminate in employment on grounds of nationality. Doesn't seem to have bothered Amber Rudd or Jeremy Hunt, of course.

BertrandRussell, who do you think is an anti-intellectual?

Piglet (and Rorty since you say it's what you would have posted:

I expect him to have reacted before today. I expect him to be on TV like other MPS have
You expected him to react before she makes the speech? I haven't seen much to so I don't know how many MPs have been on. I don't recall any on Radio.

I expect him to use SM and not just to tweet about a film festival
the link I posted was from a newspaper, and it wasn't reporting a tweet. He'd made a statement.

I expect him not to be on holiday! not like he hasn't had one he went away during the Brexit campaign
He's away, yes, after a very busy campaign. He's not on the moon, though. And is contactable. Re Brexit- you are aware he made more personal appearances at Remain events than other party leaders, and delivered a larger proportion of Remain votes from Labour voters than even of SNP ones? No? Wonder why that might be...

I expect him to have discussed Brexit at the Labour party conference.
Well, you may be right here. But until the Torres indicate what they might do, discussion by anyone else is a bit pointless.

He wanted to be the leader. He is supposed to be PM in waiting.
Your point is?

I'm sick of misinformation about the Laburnum Party in general and Corbyn in particular.

YABVU. It's all a smokescreen. She states that the motivation behind opening more grammar schools is to help ordinary, working class children/families who wish 'to get ahead in life'.

So what about the bright 'working-class' kids who are kept down regardless of the presence of grammar schools, those who struggle socially/emotionally etc for any number of reasons (chaos at home, asd, MH issues, parental issues and so on) to achieve good grades but are still intelligent, arty, technical and have much to offer???

I'd love to see the quota for helping these ^ kids out and also the ACTUAL number of solidly WC class kids from all over the country and from varied backgrounds, getting 'a step up' in to grammar school.

Personally I think this is all a ploy to win more MC/remainer voter votes!

Maud, in what way is Jeremy Hunt being discriminatory against foreign workers in the NHS?

What exactly do you think she will do?

Allow the economy to bomb due to blind ideology of hard brexit. Use "foreigners" as a political football. Just for starters. I don't recall Thatcher threatening to turf out foreign doctors.

If it wasn't so scary care bears picnic would be very funny.
I'm going to steal this,

Ghost, of course there weren't any foreign workers, the country wasn't exactly booming.

Ah sorry Elly it's Theresa May herself, not Hunt, who stated that foreign NHS workers would be here only on an "interim basis" until enough homegrown doctors could be trained.

Labour Party not Laburnum obviously. Though they sound nice.