... to think Theresa May is just a bit dim?

[EastMidsMummy]

She NEVER EVER answers the question she's asked and just blurts on with what slogans her advisors have trained her to say. She doesn't show an ability to think on her feet, be witty, clever, human or interesting.

For someone who is going to negotiate the most important deal of our lifetime, isn't she just a bit too... dim?

Politicians never answer the question.

The best ones do. Corbyn, Sturgeon, even fucking Farage all have far more about them than Theresa May.

I've not been impressed lately.

I'm not sure she is dim, but she's well out of her depth.

2 Tory bashing threads started within 5 minutes of each other this morning Eastmids.

She's not remotely dim.

She is, however, cold and unlikeable and fails to read the public well IMO.

Still, she's better than that knitted dinosaur corbyn and his ghastly sidekicks

I've been quite surprised by how much this election has exposed her, but then I suppose she was able to fly under the radar more previously. She and her advisers made a very bad mistake assuming that they could win by making it very much a "May v Corbyn" contest, because Corbyn has performed unexpectedly well and it has really shown up how badly May has performed; and they seem unable to think up any other tactic to adapt to that. The preparation of the manifesto has also been incredibly shoddy, and her attempts to lie about the dementia tax U-turn were just pathetic.

I think she thought she could set herself up as the new Thatcher, but whatever Margaret Thatcher's other faults, she was an awful lot brighter than May.

You don't wake up one day and think, "Gosh, I'm the Home Secretary/Prime Minister". You struggle for years up the greasiest pole that there is. Believe me, she isn't dim.

Is she a career politician who just wants to sit in the chair rather than someone who has a firm set of beliefs in which she believes passionately? I think so. Is she good on broadcast media? Not really. But don't confuse these things with intelligence.

The best ones do. Corbyn, Sturgeon, even fucking Farage all have far more about them than Theresa May.

Your comparisons are hilarious. The best? Hahahahaha!

Actually, I think what you describe in the OP is the opposite if dim.

It is someone who knows her strengths and weaknesses and has not departed the version she has decided to show.

It's no more indicative of her brainpower than is Boris's buffoonery, or Corbyn's geography teacher-ness. You might find the presentation of any one or more of them tedious or irritating, but it's stretching it to make wider assumptions about whether dim.

Nice to see the increased Labour shill posts.

Klaxon went of nice and early this morning, didn't it?

Grammar school and oxford university education does not come to someone a bit dim.

I think you've confused intelligence with personality.

I wouldn't say she's dim. Comes across as very cold, but not dim.

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Knitted Dinosaur Corbyn is amazing! Amused me greatly

If you want to see dim, look no further than Diane Abbott.

Whilst Teresa May has got where she is in spite of being a woman, that's the only reason Diane is where she is.

And at least TM by and large has the support of her party. Corbyn's have tried to get rid of him twice. You could say there's nothing more than continuing to lead a party that doesn't want you!

We're all thick mums, so you can just spend a few weeks posting lies, fluff and insubstantial stuff about how she "looks on tv" and can just bank on our votes.

Reeks of the attitude of certain factions of the Labour Party.

Ihope I was just about to say that I don't mind Corbyn but ' knitted dinosaur' is a great insult. Cutsey and cuddly though.

How someone comes across in interview depends on your own bias. I think Corbyn is crap in interviews, often looks shifty etc but that isn't relevant to how good or otherwise he is as a politician.

Incidentally OP - if you genuinely want to debate then do it. But you are doing the equivalent of walking into a mother and baby group and saying 'aren't mothers great'. It's largely speaking an echo chamber here - you just want validation of your stunning political insights

Tory austerity is idiotic. It has strangle growth, increased debt and put us into danger.

Ha, I thought it summed him up!

I quite like him as a human being, although I suspect he's a bit tedious in person. But as PM, dear god no.

Be fair - Corbyn doesn't answer the questions either. It's like they have the whole conversation in their head so it doesn't matter what you ask.

She's not dim. It's a horrible and cynical attempt to manipulate the voters, because she doesn't want us to know what she's really like and really thinks.

And Corbyn does answer the questions far more directly than the Maybot.

(Not a Labour or a Tory voter)

I'm a big fan of Corbyn but you can't describe May as dim! She's clearly a very intelligent woman, I doubt someone can become PM while being unintelligent. Say you disagree with her policies and why to encourage people to change their votes rather than descending to personal insults.