Why did Theresa May come in moving to Dancing Queen?

[AbsentmindedWoman]

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

There have been worse. At least is was to a song by a group with talented songwriters, not some bad karaoke act such as the now re-formed Westlife.

I am just affronted by this. People are literally dying because of Tory policies and others having their lives blighted. I have seen at first hand what is going on. Is she really deluded enough that this performance is going to give us back the feel good factor? Or is she just laughing in our faces?

And spare me the 'she's doing the best she can, it's not all her fault, give her a break'; her best is nowhere near good enough, nobody forced her to take on the job of PM and as she did, she is accountable for the chaos and tragedy she presides over

yesyes well as long as nothing ever changes in your life (illness, death of family member, divorce etc etc) which causes you to be at the will of the government then crack on! But don’t come bitching and crying when you need the resources the tories are cutting left right and center and wonder why it’s so hard to get the help you need.

I fucking despise the “I’m alright Jack” mentality of some people.

What you call wanting 'a money tree for everyone yesyesyess I call wanting to be part of a civilised society. In the opinion of myself and many others we are failing that test because we are not looking after our most vulnerable. Sorry you appear to so resent your taxes being squandered on them.

What you call 'whining' is me being devastated at my severely disabled DS's support systems being stripped away. He will only have as good as a life as his country will give him & I am terrified for his future. And btw I am a taxpayer too.

But never mind, you are OK (for now) and that's the important thing. I certainly can't make you care about anyone else if you haven't got it in you.

@mellongoose, as I said earlier, apart from the suffering imposed by austerity on many, particularly the working poor and sick and disabled, she lied to say all the hard work of austerity had paid off when the national debt is higher now than when austerity was implemented. Also many commenters say in many areas, such as welfare, austerity will not be over and more cuts are planned.

@livingtothefull, agree with all you said. I am so sorry your severely disabled son’s support systems are being stripped away, it’s awful.

Love her. You go girl! Boris had a chance to be PM but his balls retracted back into their sack. You whiners have no solution except you want a money pot for everyone. Well I'm sick of being taxed to death so good on the party!

Well that covered a lot. You go girl.

If May really wanted to distract the eyes of the world from what we'll laughingly call her policies, she should have dropped one of her patented curtseys. To the people. Who, apparently, have spoken.

What's your solution then? Tax working people higher? I'm happy to take the chance of not having a safety net if it means I dont have to fund scroungers.

Someone has just written on this page that the support systems for her v disabled son have reduced (I am also sick and disabled and have seen the support drop a lot since austerity) and set to continue to reduce, yet u refer to anyone in receipt of help from the state as scroungers? Do you include the working poor and the sick and disabled as scroungers too?

I also am aware if someone is wealthy enough they will never need state support even if they’ get ill as they have enough wealth to survive.

Thanks for your posts Toga & I'm sorry you have had to face the same kind of hardship my family has had to under this appalling government. The posts from those like yesyesyess illustrate the kinds of attitudes that keep them in power, the 'I'm all right Jack' and contempt for those around them.

There is do much to despise about the PM's speech, the overall smugness for one. But what I found truly objectionable was the harping on about the World Wars and the faux parallels which she implied between the situation this country was in at the time and the one we are in now. She even talked about persecutions and abuse faced by people, anti semitism etc to imply these parallels.

Is it just me who is appalled and affronted by this? I feel that she is softening us up to accept the unacceptable; that if a no deal Brexit goes through there may be hardships ahead, difficulties with supply of goods and with travelling etc. And we should accept all this because it is just like what the country faced during the War.

Except it is not just like that. We are not facing a War, we are living through a time of unprecedented peace. And Europe is not the enemy any more. I find it totally unacceptable that the Government's actions have led to us being in this situation, it is wholly at their door.

I can't and won't accept the unacceptable, and I don't consider it acceptable that my DC's quality of life should be sacrificed for some nebulous 'greater good' or 'bright future' which I don't think this Government is capable of delivering.

Scroungers: yet the extremely wealthy, who want more more more, are not dismissed as the money grubbing scroungers they are. Instead we are dismissed as being envious.

I'd much rather live in a society where one "scrounger" slipped through the net, if this ensured that 100 sick and disabled were looked after.

Do you include the working poor and the sick and disabled as scroungers too?

No I dont. HTH. But I'd include funding young single mums who pop babies left and right amf can't even bring them up properly. Or drug using waste of space who cause troubles to their neighbours. Family live in the estate unlike many MNers who live in their ivory towers. I despise funding their lives.

Oh yes, the "I didn't mean you" defence being trotted out when challenged.

Just to prove she’s as crap at dancing as at everything else she attempts.

No I dont. HTH. But I'd include funding young single mums who pop babies left and right amf can't even bring them up properly. Or drug using waste of space who cause troubles to their neighbours. Family live in the estate unlike many MNers who live in their ivory towers. I despise funding their lives.

Well, the disabled have suffered the largest welfare cuts under austerity and it sounds like you have swallowed the daily Mail whole on the rest.

Scroungers: yet the extremely wealthy, who want more more more, are not dismissed as the money grubbing scroungers they are. Instead we are dismissed as being envious.I'd much rather live in a society where one "scrounger" slipped through the net, if this ensured that 100 sick and disabled were looked after.

^ This in bucket spades.

Also every system will have a small proportion abusing it. HMRC lose tax from fraud but very few bang on about that. I don’t support pulling the rug under the the feet of the majority so a few people who abuse the system don’t get it.

Anyway austerity was never about trying to catch the few who abused it but shrinking the welfare state as conservatives don’t support a functioning welfare state. Scrounges rhetoric was a useful term to get more of the the public onside.

yesyes I’m not even going to attempt to sway your hideous views. Clearly you are perfect and cannot be changed!

Thankfully I am more open minded to humans, and so don’t mind being taxed in the slightest to fund benefits, even if some people do play the system. I’d rather that than a single mum not being able to feed her kids, or a disabled person losing the only money that keeps them alive and well. But you crack on.

Thanks @Livingtothefull, yes I agree with you on all you said. John Major warned that if a no deal Brexit goes ahead the UK will have to become a low tax economy and there will be little left of a welfare state. The future looks very worrying.

Why is it acceptable to label poor mums of several children and drug addicts as scum but ignore the massive corporations and wealthiest individuals, eg Jacob Rees Mogg who go to great lengths to avoid (and evade) paying tax?

Love her. You go girl! Boris had a chance to be PM but his balls retracted back into their sack. You whiners have no solution except you want a money pot for everyone. Well I'm sick of being taxed to death so good on the party!

Hi Theresa

I'm not a conservative. I googled youtube for a clip of this. I think it's fabulous. She owned it. Well done to her.

Her dancing is almost as bad as her curtsying, but both these are incidental to her being an atrocious PM. She & her party are causing serious and lasting damage. My DS and disabled people like him aren't scroungers, what I expect for him is reasonable and what a civilised country should do. But many of the things that support him in having a decent and dignified quality of life have been cut back in recent years. At least he has us, other disabled people are not so lucky.

As others have pointed out most of the scrounging is done by the are wealthy eg through tax avoidance, the Govt seem to be happy with that and instead punish us. And let's not forget the massive c£2m security bill lined up for us for next week's 'royal wedding'.

She looked like a Thunderbird puppet.