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.

She can spin it all she likes. She still isn't going to get my vote after what she's done to the police service and NHS.

Trump talked a lot about making America great again. That's going well, I see.

Sad to say this attack will probably help her, though conservative voters will no doubt miss the irony that all these attacks have happened under her watch as home secretary and now pm. I don't think many NHS staff or teachers will give her a shoe-in though.

What @Jinglebells99 said.

What @Vango said

She's been Home Secretary, she is the PM. She's had the power for long enough. What's she going to do from 9 June that she hasn't already been in a position to do for long enough?

The magic money tree can't just shake and replace all the police officers she's systematically cut with no regards for their personal safety or well being.

It takes YEARS to train a police officer never mind specialist ones.

But that's ok Teresa, just ask the terrorists for a 'time out' whilst we sort out your mess.

Eh no. No and NO.

Not my vote. Not in my name.

And what @KeepCalm said. The NHS and education, policing....she is destroying the things I hold sacred.

She is very wise. That was well said news.sky.com/story/theresa-may-london-bridge-attack-shows-we-are-too-tolerant-of-extremism-10903867

Let us see what happens later this week.

YABU vvvvv U.

The Tories have won the election whatever, but May will not last as she has been exposed as weak. If she doesn't resign she'll probably replaced after the Brexit deal.

I like small c conservatives, they tend to be decent people with whom I disagree on economic policy. You can have a good chat with them, they tend to be well informed.

I think they'd to be fairly insulted to be lumped in together with the kind of brash neoconservative who'd start or bray at a thread about how a terrorist attack will lead to a Tory party victory, before the smoke has cleared.

Of course there is a massive political aspect to a terror attack and firm leadership is needed afterwards but crass electioneering in the immediate wake of an atrocity is, well it's Mrs May's style and we've all seen that now.

No no no - I thought she spoke horribly.

She does not have a decent enough relationship with the police to run the country - she really really doesn't - she does not respect nhs or police staff.

How anyone could vote for her is beyond me

4 more years of Tory policies like introducing Sharia law;

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/five-whitehall-buildings-held-by-wealthy-businessmen-now-operating-under-sharia-rules-a6910131.html

Totally agree with the OP, a career defining speech from Mrs May.
I have no doubt she will win this election on Thursday.

Meanwhile seven people lie dead on the streets of London because she
didn't take on the terrorists until now?

No I don't think so. Anyone who is in anyway savvy and is in decided will understand that wasn't an ad hoc speech, nor did she write that speech.

It's probably not as simple but less money in bombing other countries and more money into security: and those men and women that ran towards danger.

Also Blair has everything to do with this situation. Terrorits are made.

No. Empty statements.

I am very angry at the Labour party actually, that they didn't sort the Corbyn problem out. He's risen in the polls, but only because he was doing so very badly til a few days ago. I still think he's a Neil Kinnock. If they had sorted themseves out, and fielded a better candidate, then all this disaffection and anger at May who really cannot be more to blame than any other politician for the position of the police/security services would have somewhere tangible to go.

Lots of middle/floating/Tory voters will dislike May's cuts to police, but then think Brexit, panic and have no-where else to go except back to May.

She has lost my vote. Originally I thought she had integrity and would honour the Brexit decisions. I thought we needed stability at a time of change. As the election campaigning has progressed and I witness the damage to the NHS, to ordinary people's life savings and their childrens' inheritances and hear the constant knocking of the opponent rather than anything tangent or positive, I've changed my mind. For the very first time I will be voting Labour. I may not agree with Jeremy Corbyn but I trust he is an honourable man and will do his best. He was given the Peace prize in 2013 for a lifetime's achievement.

The thing about terrorist attackts is that you dont know how many have been prevented, or stopped. We don't see those! So I could say well if Teresa had not have been pm there would have been a hundred attacks. It's like being a goalkeeper. You only get penislised for the ones you let in not the fab saves you make.

@Foureyesarebetterthantwo I'm furious with them all to be fair.

They're all a shower of shites.

The mere inclination to want to become a politician should immediately ban someone from standing.

It's utterly galling to have to place that X where you hope it's the best of a bad lot

She is responsible for cutting the funds of police forces across the country. She doesn't get to play strong and stable on this issue.

to all those referring to police cuts Cressida Dick has said this morning that she considers she has all the resources she needs to deal with this.

I wonder how having a couple of additional coppers on any particular street would prevent someone with a van mowing them and others down. I agree that we need to beef up secret security forces who do the unseen work of stopping the majority of plots before we even know about them.

JC has said that he doesn't agree with shoot to kill in a terrorist attack. In this incident this means that more people might have had their throats cut. We can see how much carnage can occur in just 8 minutes. Any delay would lead to further bloodshed. He is entirely weak on this issue which is one of the most pressing we face.

I don't see how having any more PCSOs on the street would have made a single bit of difference last night.

Having a standing shoot to kill policy saved a lot of lives. God help us if we ever elected a pacifist to PM who preferred to talk to terrorists rather than kill them.

Lol really?

She was Home Sec for six years. She has had ample time for 'enough is enough'.

Three terrorist attacks in three months on her watch and you think this speech convinces us of what?

She is useless. Utterly useless.

Well said Headofthehive55.

@homebythesea it might not prevent it as such but it might stop the ones we have left from being burnt out, disillusioned & left with a feeling of no hope.