... 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?

yes, agree. She had a great opportunity to shoe empathy when she was questioned by the nurse in the debate the other day. Most politicians would. But she just came across as cold and hard.

Ironic typo Grumpy, considering she appears to care far more about shoes than nurses.

She clearly didn't give a shit about the nurse.

She is a career politician that's all.

PJ Steve Punt & High Dennis did a whole sketch based on TM sounding like Siri and giving answers from Wikipedia on Sunday.

She doesn't seem to have much warmth or charisma, but then Blair had that in abundance and where did it get us, ..yes into Iraq!

She doesn't need charisma - Attlee was enormously successful and he was a modest man. She needs to be businesslike - which is what we expected she would be when she gained the leadership, but we have been sadly disappointed.

Britain was a very different place in the 30s 40s and 50s, I remember the 50s so I know how different it was. Attlee was a man of his time, Theresa May might have been great back then but this is the 21st century and politicians need to be able to perform in front of the camera, think on their feet and connect with the public. She can't do any of that.

granny - yes, I agree. I too remember the 50s. Theresa May was supposedly a good constituency MP. She is a person who has been promoted beyond her abilities.

I always find it interesting that Attlee had been the Deputy PM in the wartime coalition, and dealt with the domestic affairs whilst Churchill did the International events. He had also been the Labour leader before the war, so when he became PM he had a wealth of experience behind him. Also something which Theresa May lacks - with at best a patchy record at the Home Office. I think Attlee also knew his limitations, and knew who to put into key roles, which is again something which Theresa May has shown herself to be woefully inadequate about - not only the three stooges, but Truss, Leasdom, all pretty hopeless appointments.