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Disgusted with Theresa

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jdoe8 · 31/05/2017 07:13

For body shaming JC, that is just beyond vile and nasty. Glad it's looking like they will not win.

She is over.

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Orlantina · 31/05/2017 09:09

I think a negotiator is someone who needs to consider and listen to the other side.

I have seen no evidence of that with May. I can see no evidence for 'strong and stable leadership'.

LizzieMacQueen · 31/05/2017 09:11

Can't see the drama about whether or not JC can negotiate, wouldn't he (or TM) have a handful of competent advisors who will make the real decisions?

terrylene · 31/05/2017 09:12

When I looked at our local conservative association's website to see what had happened to our local safe seat MP's campaign, the news section was full of anti-Corbyn stuff and lunches and cream teas

They just seem to be waging a war against Corbyn and hoping everyone will vote for them.

WorldsacpeLove · 31/05/2017 09:12

Personally, when I first heard this I thought it was a poor comment, but not particularly nasty, but definitely ill judgement.

However, I've thought about this over night and it really annoys that a woman who is stated she will personally oversee work to ensure improvements in how we deal with domestic violence in the UK, can be so public with a comment aimed at one man about his body. This comment is very similar to comments that women (and men) who are suffering emotional abuse receive on a daily basis - I can't believe she's stood up and turned such a comment into a public joke.

(I am probably going to be voting Conservative)

histinyhandsarefrozen · 31/05/2017 09:12

I'll tell you what doesn't bear thinking about. It's the hapless May and her three stooges, Hammond, Johnson and Davis. What a bunch of utter incompetents.

Exactly.

But for some reason, people are, despite the evidence to the contrary, really buying into the strong and stable line.

M1nesasweetsh3rry · 31/05/2017 09:13

My only issue with Corbyn is that he basically hid during the referendum campaign. As a remainer a lot of labour voters, myself included were really angry with him for not campaigning properly for a no vote.
I have though, always thought he was a decent man with good honest principals, and I have grown to really like and admire him over this campaign.
I know labour are not going to win,- but hopefully they will wipe the smug smiles off may's face by reducing her majority.

histinyhandsarefrozen · 31/05/2017 09:14

Glad it's looking like they will not win.

Op, open your eyes. They will win.

AwaywiththePixies27 · 31/05/2017 09:14

You know who doesn't resort to personal insults about appearance? JC himself. Maybe you and your family could take a leaf out of his book, seeing as you like him so much.

EdSheeranalbumparty .

Maybe you should read my posts again? 😂

metspengler · 31/05/2017 09:14

That's your issuemettsno one else's. Lots ofpeople die in wars and conflicts

Yeah, it's my issue that Jeremy and his friend vocally supported terrorists that attack civilians on purpose, I made them do that and "people die all the time fuck ya", but it's a crying shame and a disgusting disgrace that Theresa May made a joke.

The caring sharing and consistent world of the Corbyn entourage people. There you have it.

Anyway on the topic of disapproving of May saying bad things about Corbyn and how super serious that is, come on people are bound to mention that the man might have said something almost as serious himself before. That is a thing that will happen, if you don't want it to, better pick a leader with a cleaner slate. I hear Ken Livingston is looking for a job.

BertrandRussell · 31/05/2017 09:16

Corbyn did not support terrorists. He is in favour of a United ireland.

goldaspickledfruit · 31/05/2017 09:17

May has now refused to take part in BBC debate.

I know labour are not going to win

Worth encouraging 18-24 year olds to vote though.

Orlantina · 31/05/2017 09:19

Theresa May happily sells UK arms to Saudi Arabia. A country that has an appalling human rights records towards woman and the LGBT community.

No one in the media picks her up on that.

PigletWasPoohsFriend · 31/05/2017 09:20

May has now refused to take part in BBC debate.

She hasn't 'now refused'. She was never going to do it. Neither is Sturgeon as Robertson is doing it and it is rumoured that Thornbury will be in for Corbyn.

thecatsabsentcojones · 31/05/2017 09:21

Yet again stuff about the garden tax FFS.

Land value tax will be based on the rental value and many people will be better off under it, it's a fairer tax. It also penalises those who sit on many empty properties. I have a big garden and am not remotely worried because it doesn't really add much to the rental value of this house.

Stop reading the Daily Mail...

tabbymog · 31/05/2017 09:22

Theresa May was quoting one of this country's great Labour politicians, Aneurin Bevan, at Jeremy Corbyn - he would know as soon as she started that quotation. It's from a speech in the mid-50s defending our nuclear deterrent, that if it was abandoned a British Prime Minister would go naked into the conference chambers of the world.

If you value our NHS you, personally, owe Nye Bevan an enormous debt of gratitude. Without him it would never have been created, and my father would have died when I was three instead of 33.

Orlantina · 31/05/2017 09:22

She hasn't 'now refused'. She was never going to do it

Running scared. People will see how angry she gets when challenged and they will see her being heckled when she continues her robotic lies about education funding.

metspengler · 31/05/2017 09:24

He won the Ghandi International Peace Prize in 2013, you don't get those kind of awards by being a terrorist or sympathiser of any kind.

Since it might lead you to interesting reading on this fine day, he did not win the Ghandi Peace Prize (a prize of international renown won by Nelson Mandela), he won the "Ghandi Peace Award" which is a slightly different thing.

WorldsacpeLove · 31/05/2017 09:25

@BertrandRussel He admits attending a wreath-laying ceremony for a Palestinian terrorist; if that's not supporting terrorists, I'm not really sure what is?

paganmolloy · 31/05/2017 09:25

I can't stand the playground politics of personal insults. I thought JC came over a million times better than TM the other night. And I fail to see why people think he's not up for the job. He's had piles of s**t flung his way, mainly by the biased media, and he's still there, not backing down, won a second leadership race and will admit he is wrong sometimes. TM comes across as someone who has no clue as to what she is doing and thinks that telling everyone how 'bloody difficult' she is before going into the most difficult negotiations of a lifetime is just plain stupid. Doesn't exactly set the best tone for getting what you want does it! More like totally gets people's backs up.
I received a conservative leaflet through the letterbox yesterday and it did not mention one single thing the party was going to do for the country, not one single thing. Being in Scotland all it did was say the SNP were the bad guys, repeated on two sides of the leaflet in various different ways. Pathetic! Totally pathetic.

terrylene · 31/05/2017 09:25

Land tax would be good idea for people like the cowboys who bought the amenity land near me for next to nothing and are trying to turn it into a building site.

SecretNetter · 31/05/2017 09:26

It's a figure of speech. Aren't people educated any more?

If this had been a male PM making that remark (doesn't bear thinking about) about a female there would have been uproar on MN about what a misogynistic cunt he was.

goldaspickledfruit · 31/05/2017 09:26

From JC Labour press conference:

"New analysis of the Tory threat has revealed that if the current rate of deterioration under the Tories continues, by 2022 our health and education services could be facing huge problems. It could mean:

In a Tory NHS and social care system:

5.5 million people on waiting lists in England, 1.8 million more than at present.

Almost 1.5 million older and vulnerable people with unmet social care needs.

In a Tory education system:

650,000 pupils crammed into primary classes of over 30.

Families left almost £450 worse off per child as a result of the Tories’ plan to scrap free school meals for 1.7 million children".

hackmum · 31/05/2017 09:28

It's a really nasty remark. I think she was showing her true colours. She's a horrible person. The full quote began with her saying "Jeremy Corbyn's minders can put him into a smart blue suit...". The Tories have an obsession with the idea that Corbyn doesn't look smart (remember Cameron's remarks about Corbyn needing to put on a tie when he was, in fact, wearing one?) So when he does look smart she uses that against him too.

Imagine if Corbyn had made the same dig against May. The Tories and their lapdogs in the press would have been up in arms.

Giddyaunt18 · 31/05/2017 09:30

That's exactly what I thought. Plus the comment about being a difficult woman. Not sure what she is trying to do but I'm guessing she is very worried about Labours increasing popularity. She's lost my respect.

hackmum · 31/05/2017 09:34

And purely from a pragmatic point of view, I don't think she's very astute politically. The business about going into negotiations naked was a deliberate echo of Nye Bevan (as has already been pointed out) and a fair debating point. She then completely ruined it by saying "that’s an image that doesn’t bear thinking about." The metaphorical force is completely lost and it just becomes a cheap dig, and rather unbecoming from someone who likes to position herself as virtuous, sensible and statesmanlike.