To feel sorry for Theresa May

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I think she has been an awful PM: evasive / divisive / arrogant / authoritarian / sneering / dog whistling.

I am glad that she no longer has a majority, hopefully allowing more voice to the many and diverse opinions in the oppositions as well as in the moderate wing of the Tory party.

I am also glad that we are apparently going back to government by cabinet meeting rather than by advisers (probable overstatement I know).

And yet I feel sorry for her . Now a puppet at the mercy of her ruthless party.

She reminds me of Glenn Close at the end of Dangerous Liaisons.

Tough shit, she played the game and lost.

Yabu

Save your sympathies for those whose disability benefits have been cut.

Fair enough .

My sympathy is low given the mess she has made and the arrogance she has shown throughout the campaign. She fully expected to do better than ever despite making no effort to actually speak to the real people. She has now acted like nothing happened and said it's business as usual while she continues to build a stable government. What a joke. I'd have more respect and compassion for her if she said yes that went a bit wrong but we will do what we can. Right now i just want her gone.

And yes of course vulnerable people deserve more sympathy.

It's painful to watch May's humiliation though.

Still, I guess she should have admitted that she wasn't up to the job a long time ago and resigned then.

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Thank you OP - I needed a laugh this morning.

No one to blame but herself! She thought she was going to walk it...

If you were going through hard times she wouldn't give a single shit, OP. In fact, if it turned out to further the cause of disaster capitalism or her shambolic leadership in some way, she'd be positively happy about it.

I definitely don't feel sorry for her BUT I do feel some people are misguided in solely blaming her for decisions that aren't really her own.
Does anyone think the figure head at the top of the party runs around making decisions alone?? Course not, it's why Donald
Trump (thankfully) hasn't been able to do all that much of what he wanted.

Decisions on cuts and policy and the election are taken by committees and high level politicians with Theresa May as part of that process; they way some people go on you'd think she's just cracking on alone

I don't feel sorry for her in the slightest.

She may or may not have great and valid plans for the economy of the country but she's made a huge mistake via arrogance and it's backfired - and she's subsequently built a bunker in the sand for her head and is ignoring it.

If she wants to connect to and have the support of the British people she needs to level with them and actually pretend to notice what we've all seen with our own eyes!

It's painful to watch May's humiliation though

No it isn't, it is hilarious and richly deserved.

I definitely don't feel sorry for her BUT I do feel some people are misguided in solely blaming her for decisions that aren't really her own.

Does anyone think the figure head at the top of the party runs around making decisions alone??

No, but she made the final desicion to call the election and is the primary architect of her own destruction.

I'm not in the habit of feeling for anyone who made a poor decision and is now reaping the benefits of it, especially when they're in a position where they should've had the wisdom to know that such a decision would have negative consequences.

And I'm a conservative voter/supporter, though not from the UK. I feel the same about Malcolm Turnbull - who I voted for - and his decision to hold an election 10 months after he took over leadership, as opposed to immediately after he took over, when his popularity was sky-high. We almost had the second hung parliament in 6 years.

*consequences, rather than benefits.

Maybe Andrea Loathsome was right. If Theresa May did actually have children, she might be a more compassionate person.

What a ridiculous statement!

I don't exactly feel sorry for her, but I do think she's being punished for taking the only route to power available to her. I don't think there is a way for a woman in the Conservative party to rise to the very top without being arrogant and divisive. A man can play the jovial, friendly, guy (like Cameron or Boris Johnson) and it be seen as an asset without it making everyone think they're a bit too weak. I don't think women Tories (and possibly not women politicians) can be that flexible and it not be seen as them doing "female" politics rather than "regular" politics.

I don't feel sorry for her. I wish her strength in carrying on. We've got Brexit negotiations coming up.

Though I should add, she is largely being punished for being spectacularly wrong about the snap election and the voting public - which is kind of fundamental to being a good politician.

I know what you mean OP. There have been a few times since Thursday where I've almost felt sorry for her and then I've remembered she's brought all of this on herself.

I had a brief period of feeling sorry for her but then I read more about her time at the Home Office and changed my mind. I think anyone who wants to be PM automatically had to be in possession of a particular kind of ruthlessness which ordinary people simply don't possess. If you can dish it out, you have to be prepared to take it yourself.

YABU she made this mess all herself. Save your sympathy for those already affected by her cuts and those who will be affected if we have another 5 years of Tory cuts.

I didn't vote for her - and wouldn't in a month of Sundays - but I do feel a bit sorry for her.

I feel as if she was lacking in confidence as PM, and was advised "go for an election: look at the polls, look at what a mess Labour is in, everyone hates Corbyn, if you call an election now you'll have a landslide, Labour will be destroyed for the next 5 years, it will be a triumph and everyone will take you seriously" (Look at the threads on here from when the election was called, that's what everyone was saying.)

Then her lack of confidence showed even more starkly, and Corbyn turned out to be much better than everyone thought, and her confidence got less and less and then this happened. And her feelings of lack of confidence ("I am not an elected PM, no one really likes me ") have been made real in the starkest way. Reminds me of the Young Ones ' "Hands up who likes ME!" and they all put their hands down.

And now everyone blames her, and her alone. Yet I would guess few Tories were against the election being called when it was because they all thought it was in the bag.

I do actually feel sorry for her, the reason being I think she is incredibly stupid, arrogant and has zero emotions intelligence.
Anyone with those qualities deserves sympathy.

Then I remember she's in charge of the country and my sympathy moves to us!

We've got Brexit negotiations coming up

Indeed.