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Why did Theresa May come in moving to Dancing Queen?

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AbsentmindedWoman · 03/10/2018 19:23

Was it supposed to be self-deprecating humour after that video of her dancing with the schoolkids? Or why?

OP posts:
Aintnothingbutaheartache · 04/10/2018 00:15

It was a poisoned chalice

MrsSchadenfreude · 04/10/2018 00:19

But she chose to drink from it! No-one forced her!

FinnegansWhiskers · 04/10/2018 00:23

I quite liked it. It was a two fingers gesture, and rather nice to see someone who can laugh at themselves

Exactly this... She is showing her human side. Good Luck to her. Nobody wants to be in her shoes at the moment. That's why they have all faded into the background. I can't think of anyone else I would like to be in charge of Brexit... or the UK at this present time. TM's dance skills are insignificance under the present circumstances. It's a shame some people don't recognise the difficult and painstaking job she has to do, with everyone on her back, whinging about whatever she does.

With all the pressure she must be feeling I can't grasp why people have to focus on her dance skills. Pathetic!

Maybe they'd like Boris to take the reigns... nope.. thought not! 🙄

Aintnothingbutaheartache · 04/10/2018 00:23

I reckon she’s doing the best she can. Let’s be honest it’s a total shit tip. Who do you think would do a better job?
If it wasn’t for all the lying Brexit propaganda we wouldn’t be here in the first place. That’s a big load of shite to be cleared and I reckon Theresa has a big shovel

Togaandsandals · 04/10/2018 00:39

@Aintnothingbutaheartache, May said austerity had worked and the country had paid some of its debts off, yet the national debt has gone up since austerity was implemented so that is a lie.

EnidButton · 04/10/2018 00:41

Because her advisors are dicks.

Read the room ffs. And I don't mean the room full of sycophantic old white men, I mean the entire country. Whichever side you're on, none of this is going well for anyone is it.

Togaandsandals · 04/10/2018 00:45

@aintnothingbutaheartache, I stand corrected she said ‘austerity is over and all the hard work has paid off’, still implying it had worked and of course neglecting to mention our national debt is now higher.

GretchenFranklin · 04/10/2018 00:48

It really pissed me off.

Stop pissing about and pretending your damaging austerity isn't ruining actual lives and your utter useless shitty Brexit negotiation is floundering. Damaging more ordinary folk.

This is someone who had lorries with 'fuck off home' writ large when she was Home Secretary Angry.

Embarrassing weirdo Prime Idiot.

1forAll74 · 04/10/2018 00:48

I must have missed the dancing Theresa , but saw her on TV earlier. and she looked quite good facially. I mean that she usually looks quite tired, and has eye bags (a bit like me ha ha ) but she looked quite fresh earlier. Miracle make up. and tips from Helen Mirren perhaps ha ha.

lostinjapan · 04/10/2018 04:27

She could have just walked on stage to 'Dancing Queen' if she wanted to show some self-deprecating humour. That would have been enough. The dancing was unnecessary and was horribly cringeworthy. I could only watch two seconds of it on the news before turning away.

MaggieAndHopey · 04/10/2018 04:31

I was severely conflicted when I saw this on the news. Not a Tory (never a Tory!) nor a Theresa fan, but it was funny.

Devilishpyjamas · 04/10/2018 04:51

Austerity is over? Try telling that to the local authorities who can barely provide statutory services.

The dancing was utterly cringeworthy. If you’re going to do that you have to really go for it, not start out of time then half heartedly try again. And the nod left then right to the audience looked like she was remembering her coaching.

Still it gave us all something to laugh at over dinner.

YeOldeTrout · 04/10/2018 05:12

I find it inspired. Still don't like her party & will never forgive Brexit, but the entrance was good idea.

bridgetoc · 04/10/2018 06:11

Some people can get away with doing that sort of thing. May isn't one of those people.

Cringe........

DroningOn · 04/10/2018 06:34

Think she's reached that euphoric delirium stage where you realise there's no going back, no point in trying and you've decided fuck it, I don't give two shits anymore

LizzieSiddal · 04/10/2018 06:40

Surely she did it because last years speech was so dreadful..

She couldn’t stop coughing/thenprankster gave her a P45 and the “F” fell off the wall.
She was making sure this years got off to light hearted start.

Ive never voted Conservative but if she can keep Boris away, then good for her.

ThisIsTheFirstStep · 04/10/2018 06:41

It was really really cringe, like high on my list of the cringiest shit I've ever seen.

Has she not noticed the mood in the country? Everyone is pissed off, everyone is skint, and she's dancing about like an absolute fanny.

SuburbanRhonda · 04/10/2018 06:47

It was only a few seconds, you didn't miss much.

And yet it felt like hours.

AngryAttackKittens · 04/10/2018 06:50

It was meant to be a bit of "see, I can laugh at myself and you did not succeed in shaming me", but maybe could have done with not going on for so long.

DonnaDarko · 04/10/2018 06:50

You could tell she was wondering when the music would stop 😂

DoctorTwo · 04/10/2018 06:52

It would've been far more honest had she shuffled onto the stage to 'Kill The Poor'.

ThisIsTheFirstStep · 04/10/2018 06:54

donnadarko it was when she did the weird shoulder shimmy at the podium that it truly ended me. Just stop, please. And her pursed lips, like she wanted the world to end in the moment.

Beesandfrogsandfleas · 04/10/2018 06:54

I just googled. Better than googling dragon butter (but not by much)

ThisIsTheFirstStep · 04/10/2018 06:57

finnegans It's not to do with her dance skills, it's to do with the fact that she is so utterly uncomfortable doing things like that and yet continues to do them, making herself look like an incompetent fool.

Does Angela Merkel dance onto stages? She does not. She does her job (well and competently for the most part, until v recently, even lefties in Germany were grudgingly supportive of her.)

Besides that, most people in the UK are pissed off, skint and worried about the future. Dancing onto the stage like an absolute muppet does not play well to such an audience. Just walk on like a normal human being and tell us what the arse is happening with Brexit and when we will see an actual end to austerity and not the one she made up in her head.

HurricaneFloss · 04/10/2018 07:07

Don't like her and her approach to Brexit unnerves me but I thought it was a clever move (pardon the pun).

Everyone was tense following last year's disaster of a speech and Backstabbing Boris's performance the day before. The dancing was meant to be awkward because she is an awkward dancer - she was "owning" it!

And I liked her speech writer's quip about having seen The Bodyguard trailer and it wasn't like that in her day Smile

So, whilst she's still an incompetent PM with nasty principles she isn't as dangerous as the alternatives the Tory party is currently offering so I'm glad she stuck it to Boris yesterday.

I'm now going to iron my hand, Dobby style, as penance for defending TM.