AIBU to think TM will resign?

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I know she has said she won't but that pretty much means she will if her record is anything to go by! What do you think?

I think she'll resign this morning.

The interesting thing is the BBC were saying she got something like 43 or 44% of the vote in an election with an unusually high turn out of 68%. I wonder if she actually got more votes than Tony Blair in 97.

Why can she not resign

Because we are out of the EU on Friday 29th March 2019. We so not have the time to duck around with leadership contests , or potentially another general election.

Well yes I suppose but she could resign later surely ? I'm not saying it would be wise to do so.

May needs to go ASAP she's a disgrace and has proven what a puppet she is throughout the whole election.
She peddles out the same old worn line shows little imagination or empathy and has shown how out of touch she is with most of the population.

The EU is ready to talk; it's the UK that has itself tangled and in a mess. Any credibility TM had entering EU talks is now all but decimated.

And that is unfortunate, but there is no time for a leadership contest, that would make leaving without a deal even more certain.

May's biggest mistake was being honest about spending. If she'd done what JC did and promised everyone everything they want paid for with the money we don't have, and a pet unicorn, she would have easily won.

Yes, the Tories are the biggest party , granted.

She didnt achieve what she wanted. That must hurt.
If she stays on even the right wing press will go after her i bet = they dont like when it doesnt go their way. she is between a rock and hard place. They will stab her in the back as they did Maggie.

Well yes I suppose but she could resign later surely

She can't realistically resign until after Brexit concludes. However as many on this thread have pointed out her position is untenable. She is stuck between a exceptionally rocky rock, and a diamond hard hard place.

Well I'm very happy with TM as are all the other people who voted for her.

This isn't true, for a start. I know some Tory voters who are completely fucked off with her. They're not blind to her incompetence.

I don't think there is any point in her going into the Brexit negotiations as she doesn't have the clout anymore. I think she will resign by tonight.

And that is unfortunate, but there is no time for a leadership contest, that would make leaving without a deal even more certain.

Again very true but that didn't stop TM from announcing a (pointless) general election. TM's position on the EU was: no deal is better than a bad deal. She didn't get the mandate for this. To that end, the UK will have to concede on at least 1 of the 4 core principles of the EU. I'd suggest that if anything, we'll be leaving in a soft Brexit - regardless who is leader.

I absolutely cannot stand TM (and I'm a labour supporter), however we need some stability for brexit negations.

Also are no other half decent candidates that could take over TM, not to mention the time and money wasted with leadership contests or god forbid another election so I really hope she doesn't resign right at this point of time as leaving the EU needs to take priority.

I'd suggest that if anything, we'll be leaving in a soft Brexit - regardless who is leader

I think this is the likeliest outcome, if we ever manage to get past the initial negotiating hurdles.

Dotsndstrip you are exactly right

Lame Duck.

I don't think she's a bad person just promoted beyond her abilities. A lot of people were hoping or fearing that she would be Thatcher mark 2 when she's actually rather mediocre. She has no charisma or ability to think on her feet which is why she didn't attend any debates or increasingly interviews or mix much with the public.
In fairness she probably is also under a lot of pressure working constantly with the security services and police in combating terrorism which she probably didn't envision when she called the election.

If she does resign I can see us ending up with Bozza as PM. Heaven forfend. The world's turned upside down.

'May's biggest mistake was being honest about spending. If she'd done what JC did and promised everyone everything they want paid for with the money we don't have, and a pet unicorn, she would have easily won.'

This ^. Any campaign needs to have lots of bollocks and lots of whooping TV debates. Lets just ignore the facts. Seems to be the best away of attracting voters.

The bottom line is with us leaving the EU in the imminent future (thanks Dave), quite frankly we don't have time to be pissing about changing Prime Minister's yet again.

She should resign quickly and the party should choose Anna Soubry as leader.

May's biggest mistake was being honest about spending. If she'd done what JC did and promised everyone everything they want paid for with the money we don't have, and a pet unicorn, she would have easily won.

Yes! It had absolutely nothing to do with calling an unnecessary general election, making the election a presidential campaign about herself. Neither did it have anything to do with Theresa May's constant U-turns on her own policies, inability to articulate what 'Brexit means Brexit' actually means, and robotically frog marching around the country saying 'Strong and Stable.'

If she was being selfish she would resign. who wouldn't feel absolutely shit this morning if they were her and want to do a Cameron throw it up in the air and walk away.

if she wants to be selfless she will stay until March 2019.

the only loser in this result is the country. I would sooner have seen Corbyn who I hate with every bit of my being win than this.

she got the leadership by default and was never up to it.

the saddest thing of all is that we are now back to 2 party politics at polar ends.

Sal - well, the education pledges alone of JC's Labour would cost £25bn a year. The IFS doesn't see how it can be funded based on revenues raised through declared taxation policies, so it it would either mean more taxation than declared, or more borrowing to fund revenue spending rather than capital. But I think we're unlikely to get a Labour budget through at this point.

I hope we'll get a softer Brexit as a consequence of this, and I would dearly love to see a social insurance fund set up to fund long term care. I'd like to see more funding in nursery, primary and secondary education and much better technical and vocational education; but I think it's fair
for students to pay towards the tertiary tuition they receive if it gets them a higher paid job. (Interest is a rip off though). And enables universities to provide a good service. But then I'm of the generation that received a full subsidy, no matter how wealthy the student's family, paid for by the 90 per cent that didn't go to university. And the sector was on its knees.

But then, I voted Lib-Dem, so I'm plainly a vanishing minority anyway!