Teresa May

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Might get crucified for this but....

She won.

She's had a lot to manage a response and a
Plan to deal with since she became PM.

I didn't vote for her. My partner did.

I feel a bit sorry for her.

Anyone else?

I tried to sharpen my pitchfork but a gang of Tory mp's ran past and stole it off me.

Said something about 'get that bitch in the back.'

They sounded pissed.

Matthew d'Ancona - who's a Tory - has a good piece in the Guardian about how useless Theresa May has been during this crisis.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/18/tories-learned-nothing-compassion-grenfell-tower-response#comment-100585405

Difficult to see how she can survive when even her cheerleaders in the press want to get rid of her. Still, I'm sure she'll be delighted that she has a handful of fans on Mumsnet who are determined to be oblivious to her every failing.

It's got nothing to do with whether she is media friendly or not.
She has demonstrated that she is a terrible leader with poor judgement. It's as simple as that.
Putting all her trust in Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill was poor judgement.
Dividing the country further by her stupid pronouncements after Brexit an example of poor leadership.
Not talking to families after the fire, poor judgement.
Annoying her core voters with her dementia tax, poor judgement.
Going after immigrants because she did a terrible job in the home office, poor judgement.
Sending Amber Rudd to fo her job in the debates even though her dad had just died showed poor judgement and poor leadership.
Not being honest about her policy for Brexit and the true economic impact on ordinary people - probably unforgiveable.
I could go on.
People thought appointing the idiots Johnson, Davis and Liam Fox was clever but it turns she just lacked imagination.
She needs to go and we need a leader who is prepared to have difficult and honest conversations with the country and one that listens.
We need a leader that's prepared to put the country before their party and not the other way round.

If anyone is suggesting above she should be hanged by a rope until she dies I am not sure that kind of comment is permitted on mumsnet whether about Corbyn or May.

Inflammatory language hackmum - when posters are saying they are happy as a happy bunny to watch TM disintegrate? Some on here and other threads have sounded like they are at the Salem witch trials. If you took a step back some of you, and look at what you are saying about her, (and consider if you would make your comments to her face, or if you could do her job); and if you would be happy at the level of vitriol on here directed at the PM being directed at you; then MN has really lost the bloody plot.

My use of hyperbole got your attention.

I used to think this was a place on all threads for reasoned, if heated, discussion, but this year has been even worse than the 2010 election.

This is a witch hunt, because you are focussing on one person and blaming her for all the ills of the country, some of which have been in the making for decades, and no political party has done anything to address them.

I used to think there was nothing as awful as a load of bitchy teenage girls. I have had to revise that opinion in the light of some of the comments on here in the past few days.

I can think of a number of groups who have arguably been subjected to a witch hunt on these boards in the last six years.

Theresa May is being attacked and ridiculed as a politican and as leader of her party. The job was not thrust on her - we know this from one of the few interviews she deigned to give us.

If you really can't see the difference then I feel sorry for you.

It's not Mumsnet you need to look out for scaryteacher - we're just chatting on the boards. You know, fair opinion and all that.

Theresa May needs to look out for the rest of the Tory party. They've got the knives out for her.

Good grief scary, nobody is conducting a witch hunt on these boards. There has been discussion, some interesting, some a tad inflammatory, some downright bloody daft, but it's not a witch hunt. There are quite a few of us on here with disabilities, we'll tell you about witch hunts!
I note Hammond didn't defend her to Marr this morning, I'd suggest that's where you look for your witch hunt.

Oh, and a very interesting point is that whatever happens to Theresa May - she will still have her nice house and plenty of money in the bank. She'll even hang on to her seat I'll wager. Leaving the PM 'top job' because you messed up a vote didn't do David Cameron any harm.

The people she, and her party, have screwed through Austerity for the last 7 years can't all say the same thing. Austerity has had far reaching effects, put people in poverty, taken their homes, taken terminally ill people's benefits, caused suicides. It's not her I'm weeping for today.

I really don't understand Mary chipping in with people give her a hard time because 'she's a woman'. You've said this on another thread too and people keep pointing out to you it has nothing to do with that.

David Cameron was very much disliked by many people I knew. And that wasn't because he was male. Or even the fact he was an Etonian pig-fucker. It was because he took austerity too far. Nothing to do with his gender or his sexual preferences

And scary didn't the right wing press also go on a witch hunt about Jeremy Corbyn recently and TM and her cronies were also as insulting. All that stuff with the IRA, calling him Comrade Corbyn and taking the piss out of him on a daily basis. I don't recall him stopping to their level though, unless you want to correct me. That was a witch hunt in my eyes. The guys not even in power and he's receiving tons of abuse. Not just on forums but in the headlines of right wing media outlets.
But sure, go ahead and cherry pick what qualifies as a witch hunt and what doesn't

I think comments that dwell on her being a woman - I would include 'bitch' - are out of order. But criticism of her as a politician goes with the territory. Let's not forget that David Cameron used to get drawn with a condom on his head.

I must have missed the condom Cameron flois

It was Steve Bell He does May as a Sphynx.

Quite amazed that people are calling this a witchhunt in light of how the right wing press and the conservatives treated Jeremy Corbyn in the run-up to the election.

I just have not felt this level of vitriol since Thatcher and they are both female. I accept that some people particularly disliked Michael Gove and I have not liked the comments about Corbyn but they are nothing like as awful as against poor Diane Abbott (female). I agree Mutter Merkel in the British press is not particularly picked on. Hilary Clinton was subjected to similar stuff however.

I hope we can move to a position where there are so many women leaders and senior ministers that this stops being an issue. It is particularly nice to see May and Rudd together as once you get more than one woman it gets better - the law of threes actually that we want on boards does work - once you ahve 3 senior women then they are not other or strange or token. Now let Labour get a female leader at some point. Any chance of that?

^Mutter Merkel* wtf? If you don't like when women are picked on, maybe don't use phrases like that either?

I don't like when women are picked on either, but it's quite hard to say what is because she's a woman and what is because she is a useless wanker.

As far as I could see, she was getting a fairly easy ride until her horrible election campaign, which revealed her to have zero interest in answering a straight question, and no ability to relate to people.

She doesn't get to dodge criticism just because she's a woman.

Quite amazed that people are calling this a witchhunt in light of how the right wing press and the conservatives treated Jeremy Corbyn in the run-up to the election. You don't read the Guardian then. They didn't support Corbyn at all. They only switched their support a week before the election. Polly Toynbee had to choke down a slice of humble pie.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/19/general-election-labour-annihilation-jeremy-corbyn

derxa The Guardian might have lacked support for Corbyn, but I'd hardly have said they went after him with the vitriol the right wing press did. Therefore not part of any 'witch hunt' (starting to hate that stupid phrase.)

Was ever there a more crassly inept politician than Jeremy Corbyn, whose every impulse is to make the wrong call on everything? It’s not excitingly flamboyant red radicalism that has done for Labour, but his sluggish incompetence at the absolute basics of leadership.
Polly Toynbee

" Now let Labour get a female leader at some point. Any chance of that?"

They've had 2.

What's your point derxa ? That Polly Toynbee wrote an article about Jeremy Corbyn?

I don't recall saying that the right wing press were exclusive in condemnation of JC as an effective leader, so if you continue beating the same horse, I will have to assume that you are attempting to derail the conversation for some reason.

And this
www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2015-09-20/guardians-terrible-dilemma-over-corbyn/