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.

Is there any evidence of these Local Authority 'power bases'?

*without referencing the 1980s.

Yeah, probably best they don't aspire to the May model of PMship.

She doesn't have a significantly different model of PMship to other PMs.

Going to the electorate and losing a majority has been done before I suppose, even occasionally by PMs some people quite like. :)

She doesn't have a significantly different model of PMship to other PMs.

Oh I don't know. Her execution of her duties has been quite unique.

I see you agree that they're being dismantled for political reasons and not to improve local services. Thank you.

She'll certainly live long in people's memories. So that's nice.

She wasted taxpayers money on a pointless election which has created turmoil at a critical time. Maybe she was ill advised or maybe she was bullied by that nasty Scottish woman!!!

Oh I don't know. Her execution of her duties has been quite unique.

So you vaguely allude, but without you saying what you think is unique, it's hard to comment on your point.

I see you agree that they're being dismantled for political reasons and not to improve local services. Thank you.

Well, I agree with half of that, but whether it improves public services is a whole different topic - it would be simplistic to say improvement can't be a priority if there are political reasons. Quite often people's political reasons boil down to "what they think will improve things".

I think she's been unique in just how excruciatingly awful she's been. I've never watched a more ineptly implemented electoral campaign. She called a GE asking for a mandate for her Brexit plans, blundered her way through the past 7 weeks, failed to achieve that mandate, and now acts as though she never asked for the mandate in the first place. Woeful.

Hope that's clear enough for you

And I did laugh when someone referred to her as looking like a headmistress as drawn by Quentin Blake. Bad me. But I remember laughing harder when Cameron was described as looking like C3PO made from ham.

C3PO made from ham

"Its sad that the Labour party have never had a woman leader too."

Margaret Beckett and Harriet Harman both led the Labour party, albeit briefly. Harriet Harman did so twice.

it would be simplistic to say improvement can't be a priority if there are political reasons.
But as you say, improvement isn't the motive.

Tanith, sorry, yes. I recall Harman being very good.

Was it just me or did anyone else wonder how the hell Arlene Phillips had ended up leading the DUP?

I feel sorry for her in the same way that I feel sorry for all prime ministers when they eventually get chewed up and spat out.

I have empathy. I don't need to save my empathy for this one and that one. I can empathise with most people who are suffering a personal struggle. Politics doesn't always come into it. She is a human being who has been humiliated and behind the scenes she must be shedding a fair few tears. She is also a woman and women are always punished harder than men for failing in public office. She has been subjected to a lot of misogyny this weekend.

*I think she's been unique in just how excruciatingly awful she's been.

Hope that's clear enough for you*

Well not really it's all rather vague, but that's clarification of a sort. No unique model of PMship then.

But as you say, improvement isn't the motive.

No, as I just said improvement and political reasons can be one and the same motive. Extricating them really requires that we know things we don't - like eg does someone think a constructive pulling out of the dead wood will ultimately improve public services, or are they one of that pantomime-universe species of law abiding human being that wakes up every morning wanting to do what they believe is the wrong thing.

Very revealing choice of language. Thank you again.

Well not really it's all rather vague, but that's clarification of a sort. No unique model of PMship then.

Unique to me them oh peevish one.

I have no sympathy for her at all, and during the election campaign she went seriously down in my estimation, not that I was ever really a fan in the first place.

I will concede though, that I really wouldn't want to be her right now.

All self inflicted.

Well it sounds as if the 1922 committee has been beautifully stage managed, just as her departure will be.

I do genuinely admire them for the way they handle this kind of thing. Whatever I think of their politics, they're one hell of a team.

I do feel sorry for her OP. I feel sorry for her because she has not had the wonderful pleasure of having children and I feel sorry for her because she has been totally humiliated . I think good has come from the election because it has shut Nicola Sturgeon up and given everyone a break from her whining. Also she did actually win the damn election a fact many corbynistas seem to forget!

They are about the party, Floisme. You do have to admire the spin.
I bet it wasnt anywhere as sweet as they made out.
Tories do Disney rather well at times. I almost believe it myself at times.

Because She has not had the wonderful pleasure of having children?!