To think Teresa May has just won the election?

[desertmum]

Listening to TM outside Downing Street vs JC - I think she may have just won the election - saying what people wnat to hear and hopefully some of what she says needs to be done will be followed through with.

By the way there are plenty of magic money trees in the forests of tax avoidance.

Absolutely.

Tory banker-think.

With regards to Terrorism and police officers, how would the 20,000 police men and women she cut (which i'm not agreeing with by the way) have help exactly? No one knows where and when a terrorist may strike and when they did strike the last 3 times this year, the police response has been amazing and the terrorist/s have been caught/shot extremely quickly. The police have done a brilliant job in this. So how exactly would 20,000 police officers have helped make terrorism any less of a threat? (And i'm only talking on the subject of terror here.)

Pretty decent analysis of this 'election winning speech'

www.independent.co.uk/voices/london-bridge-terror-attack-theresa-may-terrorism-speech-downing-street-what-she-refused-to-tell-you-a7773011.html

So how exactly would 20,000 police officers have helped make terrorism any less of a threat? (And i'm only talking on the subject of terror here.)

In the attacks therer have been...London and Manchester..likely nothing. In future attacks, very possibly something if they are outside major cities. The response was always going to be quick in London (though 8 mins is incredible...) but for example, if the next attack was in Durham it would be a hell of a lot slower. The more officers the better..even if they don't help in one or two cases, they would almost certainly help in attacks outside of the major cities. Which tbh, are just as much targets.

More officers in the community equate to better intel/community relations.

May won't have the difficult conversations with Saudi, look how she fawned over Trump!

JC has just backtracked and said he doesn't think she should resign, what doesn't he change his mind on?

Yes because TM never changes her mind does she?

JC has just backtracked and said he doesn't think she should resign, what doesn't he change his mind on?

He didn't merely backtrack though, he went all cross & boggle-eyed shouty at the reporter!

He is indeed a man of peace & measured tone.....

He didn't merely backtrack though, he went all cross & boggle-eyed shouty at the reporter! yes he did

Has his tetchy side finally come through on TV!

Resignation would be the honourable thing.

Let's get someone in there who can build our police force back up after all these years of foolish cuts.

He never called for her to resign though. he said he would back calls for her to resign, though did not call for her to resign himself, and that it should be decided at the ballot box. This quickly spun into 'Corbyn calls for May to resign!!!11!!!'

Is this the new approach? To claim he said something completely different to what he actually said, then say he is backtracking when he clarifies what he said to start with against the misquotes?

Adopts comedy Scottish accent:

Diiaanne Abbott!

I do think it might be good for her to resign though..though after the eelction. She is going to be made scapegoat for the Brexit fail otherwise. her party will oust her the second whatever deal is made then blame her forever to distance themselves. Cameron had the right idea tbh, when the country votes to fuck itself, bugger off and leave them to it.

May has accused officers of "crying wolf" over their capabilities.

Well the cuts were awful. Foolish, awful and dangerous.

The people of the UK deserve to feel safe, hell BE safe, in our own country...

Let's just get someone in there who can do the job. This is awful.

Is this the new approach? To claim he said something completely different to what he actually said, then say he is backtracking when he clarifies what he said to start with against the misquotes?

Not a new approach - business as usual. I'm not voting Labour and I don't rate Corbyn much, but anyone claiming the media are giving him a fair representation are either liars or deluded.

I'm sure it's an unfounded slur Bees

It will be re-imagined by tomorrow - something along the lines of JC being 'strong & resolute when the situation demands it'.

Or even his new stock phrase:

"I took the action that was necessary and effective to ensure that the pesky reporter understood I had no truck with her continuing in what I believed to be a wholly inappropriate line of questioning"

And look....the bankers will be alright....the bankers and playboys....they will be fine....let's get someone in there who will make our safety their priority.

Gosh!

I see it's been reframed & finessed out of history already!

What a mess politics is in this country.

I mean what it has come down to....and it is true that the Tory ideology is corrupt....we all know that....

But now it's plain as well.

May is just not up to the job.

Let's get somebody in there to straighten things out.

What a mess politics is in this country. I can only agree.

There is no shame in resigning. May should not be ashamed necessarily.

But we have to start getting this right. It's too important.

Cutting police numbers was incredibly short sighted.

She did it because she wanted to please treasury and had an eye on the big prize.

We need community officers to help tackle crime before it happens.

We need more armed officers - they have fallen which is why her minister refused to answer the question.

When the likes of the daily mail are questioning her judgement of police cuts, then you know she's in trouble.

She keeps saying "it's not about numbers". Well, dear Theresa, it is. Otherwise you could argue for further cuts and she was at some point but back tracked for political point scoring reasons

You know she's in trouble when she's getting her team to drag up quotes from 2015 where labour said that they'd make cuts. However the last time I checked, the 2017 Labour manifesto wanted to increase numbers. So she's going for the all out "fake news" approach.

Gosh I hope not! The Tories have single handedly fucked up this country...we're becoming a more unstable, unequal, incompassionate and injust community the longer they're in.