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

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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?

If you think TM is dim, what do you think of the Shadow Home Secretary and shadow Foreign Secretary then! I have more faith in TM and her cabinet running the country, than I have of JC and that lot.

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.

Actually I would genuinely like to see examples of any of them being witty, clever, human or interesting.

Corbyn looks like he would rather be anywhere else when he's interviewed. I have never seen any one look so uncomfortable. He practically squirms in his seat, even when he is being asked easy questions. I don't think I have ever seen him smile.

Gordon Brown was shit in interview too.

Of course that 'nice Mr Blair' was allegedly witty, clever, interesting and charismatic - and that went well...

No, I think she's a nasty piece of shit.

Walking onLego it's a bit much to accuse the OP off being a troll just because you don't agree with her political views. A quick check would tell you she's been posting on a wide variety of topics on MN under that username since at least 2015.

That would be a lot of forward planning for a political troll.

The best ones do. Corbyn, Sturgeon, even fucking Farage

No they have only 2 answers. Protest against everything and shake the magic money tree. None of them ever have an intelligent answer about what to actually do.

Say you disagree with her policies and why to encourage people to change their votes rather than descending to personal insults.

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I voted remain last year. I avoided most of the EU threads. But I can guarantee that if I had read them, I would have changed my vote because anyone resorting to insults when debating issues has lost any ground they may have had.

And I'm frankly embarrassed at how personal it gets on here.

There are lots of different types of intelligence and Theresa May comes across as having a rather narrow type; like Diane Abbott, she's clearly an academically able woman who has worked hard to get to where she is. I don't think she has a vision or much human warmth. She has a narrow CofE headmistress' view of 'good'. She nostalgically hankers after fox hunting and grammar schools. I don't think she's particularly good at thinking on her feet. She's seems like the archetypal plodder who worked really hard at school.

And people accusing others of posting Labour shill posts, there's been a fair few Tory ones on here in the past few days too.

There's an election on Thursday, it's getting exciting, and we're all piling in to debate the issues. It's great!

And I've spent far too long on here this morning being distracted by the election when I have a ton of work to do!

She's probably not going to be leader for long anyway if rumours are to be believed.

So the Corbynistas will have to find new personal comments to make about the Tory leader rather than arguing his/her politics

And at least TM by and large has the support of her party.

For the moment. They will happily stab her in the back if she doesn't deliver what they want.

She may not be academically dim, but politically dim she most certainly is, IMO. You only have to look at the way she treated George Osborne - she harboured grudges against him, and then he went and took up editorship of the Evening Standard, where he is happily sniping at her, getting his own back.

I don't think you can be dim and become PM, but I don't like her policies and her vision of this country.

There are politicians on both side I worry about, Diane Abbott for sure and Boris Johnson and his bumbling eccentricities get right on my nerves. But I don't think they can get to where they are today by being dim.

To be honest TM strikes me as a very clever and calculating woman but with very little likeability.

The fact that she's in a position of power with such a clear lack of personal engagement or ability to play the people game tells a greater story of her strengths than a few well rehearsed sound bites in the media.

I loath the woman's political stance but I do respect her intelligence.

Are you joking?! Corbyn spends hours dodging questions, particularly when we were debating his stance on Brexit, there was the famous 7 time same question dodge! Thats what politicians DO. You clearly don't watch many. Sturgeon has spent many a FMQ's dodging every question put her way. May does too. But no, she is clearly not dim. You may not like her, but she's certainly not dim

Grumpy Genuine debate - great

Starting another 'I fancy Corbyn/TM is evil/the
Tories want to kill you all on 9 June' thread isn't debate.

I wonder if MN could set up a new Topic for 9 June where Everyone can either gloat or go into a clothes ripping frenzy of 'we are all doomed'

What I don't like about TM is how she thinks projecting herself as a difficult woman is meant to endear her to us and show us how strong and forthright she is. She's trying to be Thatcher, but that=nk christ there was only one of her.

Its a bit like those people who say they are a "peoples person"...and the reality is most folk can't stand them.

Velvetspoon, Diane abbot has held her seat since the 80s, so I think if she was playing the woman card (or whatever it is you're implying with your comment) then I imagine the good people of hackney and Newington would have seen through it by now!

I think it's a shame that women get together and bitch about other women as though we don't have enough else to worry about!

Theresa May isn't someone I can vote for her track record (cuts to everything, increased poverty - much of which is in work poverty not so called scroungers, also I don't believe she has the vast majority of the British people's best interest at heart and I don't trust her on brexit or anything else). But I would like to think I can raise myself above attacking her for being a woman. Come on it's 2017 not 1917!

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

Yes disagree with her politics, but at least she doesn't quite show her party up like Abbott does.

...or Boris Johnson

oh what a surprise politicians not answering questions properly /labour politicians never do that of course oh wait a minute what abour Blair the master of spin....

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

Beautifully said.

'oh what a surprise politicians not answering questions properly /labour politicians never do that of course oh wait a minute what abour Blair the master of spin'

This . Labour supporters have such pitifully short memories.

She's not dim. She just doesn't want to answer the questions.

Not dim....just bonded to an awful, class-based, two-nation ideology. The rich (worthy/good) and the rest of us.

I actually think one of the quickest on their feet seems to be Tim Farron (although when I watched him yesterday it took him a while to answer a a question, but he eventually got there!). I am labour voter this time (I like Corbyn and his ideals and it is also a tactical vote) and still think Farron has answered the best/quickest (actually answered the question!) in the question time shows this last 7 days - if we weren't a marginal I would actually be slightly swayed to vote for him as I think he is actually on the ball.

Looking at her CV she is certainly not dim. In fact she is way up there, well above the vast majority. Corbyn on the other hand......a 2 short planked Marxist activist.