Mrs May and the poisoned chalice

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I'm not a Tory voter but I'm feeling a bit sorry for T May. Has she got any chance of getting her EU plan through or is she for the high jump by end of week?

I'm Labour through and through, but I think May had the guts to take this Brexit mess on when everyone else was too chicken and I applaud her for that.

How can you feel sorry for her? After Cameron ran away from the mess he created, she stood to be elected leader of the Tories, and hence PM. She then decided to hold an general election which she fucked up. She decided to fill her cabinet with back-stabbing mercenaries like Boris.

It's not May you should feel sorry for, its the weakest members of our country who will get shat upon the most due to her incompetence.

The whole thing is just a massive clusterfuck. I feel most sorry for all of us- we are all going to be shat on next March when we leave.

I think she deserves recognition for taking on a role that no-one wanted, and from doing her best to stop Boris, at no small cost to her. Given she's mananging to piss off hardcore Brexiteers and Remainers, she's probably doing as good a job as can be expected.

I actually do have some sympathy but calling that election was absolutely stupid, she was badly advised but it was her decision.
Rumour has it she’s a Remainer ( according to one interview I heard with a former aide) and if that’s the case it must be even harder for her.
Anyone who negotiates Brexit will get the blame for the shitty situation we will find ourselves in as it’s a no win scenario so it is a poisoned chalice

I don't like the woman one bit but whilst she's shitting on us, others are shitting on her.

Inevitably there'll be a leadership bid from a few of the popular names in her cabinet of scrotum-faced fucknuts. Inevitably she'll fall upon her sword at some point and some other dickhead will attempt to lead us through the mess that Brexit will bring. Inevitably whoever takes over from her will have to fall upon their own sword when the public and their equally twat-filled cabinet realise what an unholy mess Brexit truly is, and the whole time Europe and the rest of the free world will laugh at the shitshow we've made of British Politics.

We need to go back to the offer made in March by Tusk, which was about as good as it was going to get whilst respecting the red lines. I don't want to be tied into ECJ oversight, I voted Leave precisely because I don't want it.

The PM insulted the cabinet by showing her plans to Merkel before the cabinet saw them, and by treating them like naughty children at Chequers she undermined and sidelined David Davis by using Olly Robbins to do the negotiating in Brussels. She should have learned from the Nick Timothy election debacle that over-reliance on SPADS and Civil Servants is not a good thing.

I've long hated her for the police cuts she made when she was HS. She was never up to the job of PM but her ego thought she could get through by repeating robotic sound bites.

She's getting her just desserts.

I don't feel sorry for Teresa May at all. Her own stupid decisions.^^ I actually made a bit of money betting she would lose her majority.

By the by, the EU will reject this deal we bring to the table, even though I think it's a fairly reasonable compromise deal! The EU aren't interested in what's best for both countries though - there's a nice comment piece in the Sunday Times explaining it:

You British don't understand. This is not about what makes the most economic sense for both sides. This is about politics... if the single market and its four freedoms are fractured, the whole movement will unravel
Man on the ground in Brussels

And the alternatives were - Leadsom. Gove. Johnson. Faced with the prospect of any of them I'd probably have had a go myself as a least worst option. Which is, I think, how we got Mrs M. Its horrendous and I have no idea how this can be resolved. Its been like waiting for a train to hit us.

Johnson never declared he was running, people assumed

Yes I remember Gove stabbing him in the back and putting his plan out of play.2 reptiles together with lady macbeth lurking in the wings.

Apparently rumours flying around media-world that Gove is about to resign causing a vote of no confidence.

I think she deserves recognition for taking on a role that no-one wanted,

I have no sympathy for her whatsoever, she's a serial liar, has no empathy, and is completely unfit for office. I remember her speech to the Police Federation when she really pissed them off telling them, correctly, that they needed to look at themselves and the way they handle domestic violence, that she was going to set up a parliamentary commission and investigate why nothing was being done while so many women were being abused. I was cheering her on.

Like many women here I have a very personal interest in the issue. A week or so later she'd forgotten all about it, it's dead and buried, never to be mentioned again. This is what's happened to all her promises. I wish Maidenhead would see sense and deselect her, but they won't, the party selection committee has chosen one like themselves.

The Tories are in a bind

They cannot agree within their own party how to handle brexit

No one really wants her job as pm either.

Some else said cluster fuck. That's about right.

But exciting political news! I love a string of resignations!

I can't have sympathy for anyone that oversees the systematic mistreatment of vulnerable people. Every austerity measure has disproportionately impacted on the disabled and women.

And it sticks even more when it's women inflicting these measures.

Karma is a bitch. One day she and her ilk (McVey) will get theirs.