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To admire Theresa May

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Imsosorryalan75 · 21/09/2018 22:14

As a woman. I don't agree with her policies and brexit strategies but I do think she is an amazingly strong and powerful figure, with the confidence to stick to her beliefs, even in the face of such negativity! That takes guts!
Watching her in Brussels surrounded by a crowd of important men, I did think good on her for standing up to them. Anyone agree?
She gets a lot of negative press and i never hear of her being shown as a role model for women.

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formerbabe · 21/09/2018 22:15

I agree. I feel sorry for her. She is taking one for the team as far as I'm concerned.

honeysucklejasmine · 21/09/2018 22:17

There's confidence then there's bloody minded-ness.

I'm pleased we have a female PM but I wish it weren't her.

GeorgieTheGorgeousGoat · 21/09/2018 22:18

I don’t like her but it’s a shit job in shitter circumstances and I don’t think anyone would be very liked in this position. I agree with she’s taking one for the team!

Magicmonster · 21/09/2018 22:21

I ageee OP. I don’t suppose most of the conservative policies and would much rather we weren’t brexiting at all, but Theresa May herself - how she presents herself and is as a PM I don’t mind at all. I can’t see anyone else doing a hugely better job with the same mandate.

MedicinalGin · 21/09/2018 22:21

I don’t know enough to be sure if I admire her but I do feel for her this week- she genuinely seems committed to meting out some kind of rational brexit solution while all these ranting opportunistic wankers around her are so busy covering their backs and fettling about with their own vested interests.

I sure don’t envy her and hope she has been able to access a good glass of wine and a bit of peace and quiet this evening.

Magicmonster · 21/09/2018 22:21

Support not suppose

MissEliza · 21/09/2018 22:21

I know many people who have dealt with her and say she's a genuine person who wants to help people. I agree she has a shit no win job. She would have been a great prime minister in different circumstances.

maxthemartian · 21/09/2018 22:22

YABU. Very. She's doing a terrible job and is dragging the country off a cliff.

BuntyII · 21/09/2018 22:22

Not really a fan but I did feel sorry for her over the dancing thing, because so many people laughed at her. Including myself Blush

PoptartPoptart · 21/09/2018 22:22

I agree op.
The man that got us into this mess in the first place did a runner and she is picking up the slack.
Whether I agree with her policies or not, I can’t help but take my hat off to her.
I wouldn’t want that job for all the money in the world.

DemocracyDiesInDarkness · 21/09/2018 22:23

I'm sorry but I can't support someone who seems unprincipled, weak, hypocritical and disturbingly bad at her job just because she has a vagina, no.

GeorgieTheGorgeousGoat · 21/09/2018 22:24

dragging the country off a cliff.

That would be David Cameron!

MichelleJ79 · 21/09/2018 22:25

I do, especially when you think of the job she has to do in particular the Brexit negotiations. I think she is doing a job that nobody wants but once it's done and the dust settles people will come crawling out the woodwork to take her job. Admire her for standing up to the EU.

londonrach · 21/09/2018 22:26

I agree. She got a poisoned glass.

MajesticWhine · 21/09/2018 22:26

Agree. I'm not a fan at all of Brexit in any shape or form, but I admire her ability to try and stick to the task, utterly thankless as it is. She is making the best she can of an impossible job.

OlennasWimple · 21/09/2018 22:27

It's shit that we only got our second female prime minister because no-one else wanted the job now (and who can blame them...?)

We could have a lot worse - the problem is that we need someone brilliant

MazDazzle · 21/09/2018 22:27

just because she has a vagina Grin

Yes she has an unbelievably difficult job, but let’s remember it’s a job she wanted. We certainly shouldn’t feel sorry for her or proud of her, or even grateful, just because she has a vag.

It’s sad that the only female PMs we have are Theresa May & Maggie Thatch. Confused

AssignedNorthernAtBirth · 21/09/2018 22:29

I might be more inclined to respect her if this mess were less of her own making. Obviously the referendum result wasn't her fault, though I suppose there's the argument that she did nothing to assist the Remain campaign. But she's indulged in some absolute nonsense since taking office. Having to be forced by the Supreme Court to agree to a parliamentary vote on triggering Article 50, and trying to use Royal Prerogative, was disgraceful.

She also threw her party's majority away with a poor decision. While I was very pleased about that, it was very stupid.

BeardedMum · 21/09/2018 22:29

I would admire her if she said what I think she believes. That Brexit is suicide.

donquixotedelamancha · 21/09/2018 22:30

I do think she is an amazingly strong and powerful figure

Did you see her response to Grenfell? She was pathetic.

Did you see the robotic, evasive interviews during the election? Her talk of 'burning injustices' which she then ignored? Have you noticed how impossible she finds it to acknowledge fault and how controlling she is about the media?

You do know she appointed Boris Johnson foreign secretary? Every time Chris Grayling fucks up another department (trains at the mo) she moves him- solely because he supports her.

Someone (I forget who) once said that we will have true equality when a woman prime minister is shit at their job and it's as accepted as when the men are. By that measure it's been a fab couple of years for equality.

I admire her achievements of becoming Home Secretary and PM in a system where that still isn't easy for women; but in every other respect she's a bloody disaster.

DemocracyDiesInDarkness · 21/09/2018 22:30

She didn't 'get' a poisoned glass, she fought for it, despite apparently not believing in the thing it was going to become her job to do Confused

Sarahlou63 · 21/09/2018 22:31

I can't respect anyone who campaigned for remain but who utterly abandoned her principles when she got elevated the top job. And having got that job didn't apply any common sense to the farce that is Brexit.

Bearbehind · 21/09/2018 22:31

Totally disagree.

She's a fucking lunatic who has decided to drive this country off a cliff just because she was snubbed yesterday.

Her Chequers plan is shite, not even her own party support it.

She is setting this up so she can be seen to be following the 'will of the people' just so she can blame them when it all comes tumbling down.

I genuinely don't understand how that's not crystal clear to everyone,

HollowTalk · 21/09/2018 22:31

I think she's doing her best in absolutely ridiculously bad circumstances, where not one male MP was ready to take on the job, even though the bad situation was almost all down to male posturing.

She reminds me of a really diligent deputy head girl who will stand in when the head girl's sick, but really knows she's not up to the job. Even though she knows the head girl has made really bad decisions, she's going to make sure those decisions are acted upon.

Whenever I look at her, though, I think of a woman who wishes she could retire and go on a round the world cruise and forget politics exists.

salopek · 21/09/2018 22:31

No, I don't like her. She just looks weak, walks with hunched shoulders, looks like a bit of a wet lettuce. and is a very poor orator. I'm not surprised no one takes her seriously. And this is from me who is a traditional Tory voter. Just because she's a woman does not mean i have to admire her.

She has a good stylist though, I'll give her that.