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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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theculture · 21/09/2018 22:52

I admit I was beginning to vaguely admire her and feel sorry for her . . .

Then I remembered all those windrush pensioners who are spending their last years statelessand homeless because she is a callous 'I'm alright jack' who would rather pander to the right wing than those poor tax paying elderly people. And the the disabled people that are dying with in poverty because they are 'fit to work' , and all the teachers that are having to by pencils, food and wash their pupils clothes because even if their parents may have a job they still can't afford to

Then I thought fuck her

whosafraidofabigduckfart · 21/09/2018 22:53

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thisneverendingsummer · 21/09/2018 22:53

YANBU. I was impressed at how she isn't backing down. And she is standing her ground.

I do wish she had said 'go fuck yourselves' to the EU bellends though.

Never mind. In six months time, we will be free of the EU shackles. Hopefully with no deal - so we don't have to have fuck-all to do with them.

SheWoreBlueVelvet · 21/09/2018 22:54

Oh come on. She's doing no better or worse than anyone else in her position.

Nothing to do with gender. She's doing fine. The real politics comes after we leave anyway. When everyone works out what the actual costs and benefits are,

Juells · 21/09/2018 22:56

I was feeling sorry for her until I saw her speech today.

Winebottle · 21/09/2018 22:57

She seems nice enough and is trying her best but that is as far as it goes for me.

I certainly don't think she is a powerful figure. She hasn't really achieved anything in her time in office. Would anyone else have done better in the circumstances? I don't know. But she hasn't made a success of it.

AssignedNorthernAtBirth · 21/09/2018 22:57

Yes, we can deffo find a way to have nothing to do with a body that includes most of our continent and that we'll still have a land border with.

ilovesooty · 21/09/2018 22:58

No one forced her to put herself forward to be Prime Minister. She was an appalling Home Secretary.
No admiration here.

SinglePringle · 21/09/2018 22:59

I totally agree that today’s ridiculous posturing has fuck all to do with the EU and everything to do with saving her hide.

SHE IS FUCKING US OVER AT ‘THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE & WILL THEN BLAME THE ‘WILL OF THE PEOPLE’ WHEN IT ALL FALLS OFF THE CLIFF.

The electorate is being played. And by someone who had to read today’s speech off a prompt. Bad, bad oratory.

Don’t get me wrong, I hated Thatcher more than this shower of cunts but at least the woman could deliver a speech as if it came from the depths of her (burning in hell) heart

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headstone · 21/09/2018 23:00

I like her because she seems sincere. She has taken on an impossible task though. Perhaps she shouldn’t have volunteered, but then we would have been left with PM Boris and that would be infinitely worse.

BlackForestCake · 21/09/2018 23:01

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.

And when she leaves office, that’s what she'll do. She'll be fine. It's the rest of us who'll have to clear up the mess.

maxthemartian · 21/09/2018 23:03

She called me a citizen of nowhere. So that's nice.

SinglePringle · 21/09/2018 23:03

And for those who believe she’s ‘nice enough but ineffectual’... you do not get to enter high level politics, let alone become Home Sec and then bag the Top Job without being an arch politico.

She knows exactly the game she’s playing:

Secure a Deal and she’ll be heralded as a winner

No Deal and she tried. It was Jonny Foreigner who wouldn’t compromise.

She the slippiest fucking eel on the banks of the Thames.

Spreadingcudweed · 21/09/2018 23:04

I was deeply offended by the citizen of nowhere comment too Maxthemartian.

disorganisedXX · 21/09/2018 23:05

She is the shotgun pointed at the british foot.

feeona123 · 21/09/2018 23:05

Her blood sugars will be through the roof this week!

She’s doing the best she can of the shit Cameron left us in.

acquiescence · 21/09/2018 23:06

I have no respect for her. Her gender is irrelevant. I would have no r spect for anyone who was doing this to our country. She didn’t ‘inherit’ this, she chose the role and was in a key post before.
It is all a massive mess and I am dreading the next few years and mourning the things my children will miss out on because of brexit.
It is so so sad that Margaret Thatcher and her are only two female prime ministers we have had.

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Imsosorryalan75 · 21/09/2018 23:06

Who knows what will happen after Brexit. I hope we'll be ok. But at least she isnt begging them for crumbs, cap in hand. We will leave with some dignity.

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Eatmycheese · 21/09/2018 23:07

I think she could be an extra in a cinematic remake of Roald Dahl’s “The Witches”

blackvelvetband · 21/09/2018 23:10

Yabu
It's like watching a car crash in slow motion. If she was strong and powerful she'd call a halt to the whole sorry mess.
We in the north of Ireland are being dragged out, kicking and screaming AGAINST OUR WILL! It's going to be horrendous for us and we didn't even fucking want it. I'm truly afraid for what's going to happen to our wee 6 counties.

SusieOwl4 · 21/09/2018 23:11

Brexit is damaging my company and may cause lay offs . But I don’t understand why she is criticised for her deal when if she had gone in harder it definitely would have been thrown out by the EU. I think she is in a lose lose situation. I think the sly little jokes at our expense are disgusting. This whole thing is no joke , and I agree with her today saying the uk should be treated with more respect. I voted remain but now will just be glad when it’s over and done with .

artio87 · 21/09/2018 23:12

A role model for women who cuts funding for domestic violence support centres across the country while giving tax breaks to the wealthy?

A role model for women who does nothing when her party people stop a law that makes up-skirting a criminal offense?

A role model for women who makes other women prove their rape in order to get child benefits?

A role model for women who stays in power through a £1bn bribe to people who deny other women the choice of an abortion in cases of rape and incest?

No thanks.

SusanWalker · 21/09/2018 23:12

I think she's a terrible PM. She is incapable of being flexible, gets one idea and will not budge even if circumstances dictate that change is needed. She has caused all this brexit clusterfuck by laying down all her red lines before the negotiations. She has painted herself into a corner and is now standing in it shouting at the EU to find her a way out.

She spent her time in Salzburg telling the EU they had to dance to her tune and they finally snapped. We have pissed them about for two years, they are having to spend millions on no deal planning, they have had enough.

Then today she stands up and tells them, give me what I want or I will commit economic suicide.

If she wants some respect, instead of shouting very slowly at the EU and trying to pass the blame onto them, she should try taking some responsibility and admit that her red lines were always unworkable. She reminds me of my ex who would get angry with me if he made a mistake, even better if he could find some way to make it my fault.

Not to mention all the people struggling on universal credit, windrush, her attitude to the police when they warned her cuts would lead to more crime.

blackvelvetband · 21/09/2018 23:14

A role model for women who makes other women prove their rape in order to get child benefits?

This!
I'd actually forgotten about this
She could actually be worse than that fucking old c**t thatcher in terms of legacy

Fuck I'm so angry right now