To think May deliberately ran a bad campaign to get out of doing Brexit?

[QuentinSummers]

Every new bit of news I hear I think she surely surely can't be that stupid.
Alliance with the DUP??!!
Jeremy Hunt and Liam Fox to keep their jobs?
Michael Gove back in?!!!

AIBU to think she's trying desperately to get sacked so she doesn't have to deal with the Brexit shambles?

Bollocks Dixie there was huge adoration when she was elected and it's not very long ago

TM was set up to be the Patsy pressing the Brexit Button.BoJo and his ilk are playing the long game.
I very much TM really called the election , she would do what her advisors told her, and they had no reason to suspect that their party would not win by a landslide.It is clear, I think, there will be another GE before long and a new shiny conservative leader will emerge and rebrand the party.

Who will that be though? Getting really fed up with the talk about BoJo. That would be the final step in utter farce

That was my initial thought when she announced the snap election, but watching her campaign, I just think she's really really shit at her job.

Theresa May was never the brightest crayon in the box. She has little or no interest in the economy. She is limited, self-serving but hard-working.

In saying that, I was surprised when she did call the election. I didn't think she was an opportunist or a gambler.

I agree. I wish she'd just come out and say....ok, shall we just not Brexit?

I think anyone who wants her job if she resigns should be sectioned. It's a poisoned chalice.

In her arrogance she has fucked the country over, her place in history is written for all the wrong reasons.

I agree with pride comes before a fall.
The polls were favourable to a positive gain. Corbyn was looking unelectable with a lot of dissent amongst the Labour MPs. A win would have quietened the line about her not having been elected by the populace following Cameron's resignation.

It seems to me that Corbyn's campaign played to his strengths at getting out to the electorate. This was underestimated.

Two terrorist attacks couldn't have been foreseen. They paused campaigning at a sticky moment with the "dementia tax u-turn" then in the last week changing the agenda to security and giving advantage to Corbyn over police cuts and May's Home Secretary days. It's also raised public concerns over human rights.

Meanwhile the UKIP vote has split more evenly between Labour and Conservative than anticipated. Young people have also been more active than usual following Brexit and the bias of older voters to leave. Social media is also engaging younger voters where traditional methods haven't.

Some factors were misinterpreted. Some couldn't be foreseen.

I'm happier seeing her trying to stick it out and suck it up. It's a bad moment to go through a leadership contest, and I don't think a second in 12 months is helpful. It would also bring us back to the unelected Prime Minister problem which was one of the triggers for the whole debacle in the first place!

I've got less respect for Cameron calling an unnecessary election, reading it wrongly and having a complacent campaign then scarpering the next morning.

stop me too.
I actually wish Cameron had come out on June 24th 2016 and gone "look, I know you voted leave but it was a really bad idea so we aren't doing it"
I can't be the only person listening to the Conservative party going on about the economy in their campaign and thinking "well you've done more damage to that in 2 years than any other party ever"

No it was hubris pure and simple on her behalf.

Looking at her struggles negotiating with the DUP to save her neck - "we've got a coalition / no / confidence & support then / no" ...
I don't give much for her chances of negotiating vastly more complex issues with the EU

No. Theresa May is dim enough to read The Daily Mail and believe everything in it.

I've got less respect for Cameron calling an unnecessary election, reading it wrongly and having a complacent campaign then scarpering the next morning.

Do you mean the 23rd June referendum ? If so it was promised in the 2015 manifesto. Cameron had promised to hold it.