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AIBU to feel a bit shit for TM?

282 replies

AndWhat · 12/12/2018 08:03

Imagine achieving your life dream of becoming PM, being left to organise a shitstorm and then a load of your staff telling you you’re shit at organising shit and you get voted out.
I don’t think anyone who was brought in to lead brexit following Cameron’s hash up would have done a decent job and yet all TM will be known for is failing to manage brexit!

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WSPU · 12/12/2018 08:35

Yes there’s sexism involved and yes David Cameron was shit. But she has been terrible since the beginning of her premiership. Stuff hasn’t just happened to her. She has made a series of terrible decisions and is now paying the price. Promising everything to everyone and relentless can kicking has brought this country to the brink on her watch.

MrsJayy · 12/12/2018 08:35

flaps of steel 😂😂

StealthPolarBear · 12/12/2018 08:36

Lol sluj

TheFairyCaravan · 12/12/2018 08:37

She's about to make a statement and it wouldn't surprise me if she resigned.

I'm not a Tory but she's been made a scapegoat for Brexit. The Brexiteers all ran away when Cameron resigned. They all knew it would be a shitstorm so sat back and watched it fail. I do feel sorry for her for the way she's been stabbed in the back.

StealthPolarBear · 12/12/2018 08:37

She probably could do with a few "mental health" days off work watching TV in her jammies. Her bosses can sort out cover, that's why they get paid the big bucks.

gladheart · 12/12/2018 08:38

@StealthPolarBear isn't her boss the Queen?

StealthPolarBear · 12/12/2018 08:39

Well she needs to text queenie and tell her she's having a duvet day

MrsJayy · 12/12/2018 08:40

Dan on Bbc breakfast is about to explode waiting on no10 door opening

mumsiedarlingrevolta · 12/12/2018 08:40

@sluj Are you Mr May?? Xmas Wink

I completely agree this has played out differently because she is a woman.
I believe she has good intentions unlike many of the others but her party has absolutely dicked her over- all in their own self interest...

DeezMutts · 12/12/2018 08:40

flaps of steel Grin

StealthPolarBear · 12/12/2018 08:41

Refreshing bbc news

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 12/12/2018 08:41

Awwww diddums poor little rich girl. Hmm
I'm afraid my sympathies are reserved for those many poor children who won't even have so much as Tree fit for Christmas.
The single mum who can't pay her bedroom tax. Has no one to turn to is one verge of eviction and suicide.
The severly disabled bloke who's just had a letter saying he's fit for work. Thus stopping his benefits immediately.

DaphneDiligaf · 12/12/2018 08:42

She fought for a job she wasn't equipped to do. Her hubris won't allow her to bow out, so instead she's trying to do great harm to the nation so that she can retain her job. Would any of us do that? Fight to keep hold of a job (that we don't need because we're loaded) by doing harm to millions of people who we could choose to help instead?

Fuck off with all this 'it's because she's a woman' shite. I'm seeing it on Twitter today too and it's utter bollocks. The Tories are an absolute roaring firepit of power-hungry entitled narcissists, and if you think they wouldn't stab a man in the back you really have no memory.#

This fine upstanding Christian woman called an election because she thought she could destroy the Labour party, she was wrong and as a result weakened her position.

SillySallySingsSongs · 12/12/2018 08:42

Awwww diddums poor little rich girl. Do you say the same about Corbyn after all he is from an even richer background.

Crimson72 · 12/12/2018 08:43

I can’t get to a TV right now. Has she begun her statement yet? Honestly just feel terrible for her.

LittleLionMansMummy · 12/12/2018 08:43

Lifelong Labour supporter here. I totally agree with you op.

She won't come out and resign. She's the world's most resilient woman. And I believe that her removal would be the worst possible outcome for our country in the current dire circumstances.

SillySallySingsSongs · 12/12/2018 08:43

@Crimson72 no not yet

MeganBacon · 12/12/2018 08:43

Feel sorry for her too. I know she's not got leadership charisma but I think she goes some way to making up for it with sheer diligence and conscientiousness.

RiskIt4Biscuit · 12/12/2018 08:43

She is utterly awful, and her track record is pretty dire - the go home vans, Windrush, telling the Police Federation to stop crying wolf and so on.
Her handling of Brexit has been terrible as well - Brexit means Brexit, red, white and blue Brexit, calling the early election and and all that has been awful.

However, I think any PM would be in a difficult situation with regards to Brexit, and there is only one deal to negotiate from the EU. That's not her fault.

The ERG (along with all of the other Brexiters in Parliament - just look at David Davis and Raab) are useless and have at no point been able to provide a viable plan for Brexit, so what they are doing is only destabilising the country even further. A no deal Brexit would be absolutely disastrous for the country.

She has been put in a difficult situation, and she has tried her best - the deal isn't that bad, but everything else she has done is so utterly crap that she does not deserve anyone feeling sorry for her.
She, must like most of the members of Parliament, are only interested in their careers, their own bank accounts and they do not care one bit to focus on the betterment of the country and the people of this country.

StealthPolarBear · 12/12/2018 08:43

I'm not at a TV. Reliant on the bbc website.

People of mn, stop this in fighting now :o

MrsJayy · 12/12/2018 08:44

No not yet crimson

AlexaShutUp · 12/12/2018 08:45

I'm no fan of TM, but I do think she has done her best in a no-win situation, and I do feel sorry for her. The Tory party truly is the nasty party!

I wouldn't blame her at all if she came out this morning and said sod the bloody lot of you, I'm resigning...

Tanith · 12/12/2018 08:45

I'm getting tired of these "Pity her" threads that appear whenever TM is having a difficult time, nearly always her own fault.

No, I don't feel sorry for her. This whole mess is entirely of her making and she's made it clear that she and she alone has responsibility.

She's repeatedly lied - to her own MPs, to Parliament, to the electorate and even to the Queen. She's behaved like a dictator in trying to circumvent Parliament - and that's before we get onto her poor record as Home Secretary.
It's her own fault if people can't trust her an inch and don't believe a word she says: they're judging her on her past behaviour, not on the fact that she's a woman.

PermanentlyFrizzyHairBall · 12/12/2018 08:46

She did inherit a shit storm not of her making and there was no real way she could have made a success of it.

HOWEVER she reacted to her week position by stirring up hate and division (her speech about rootless cosmopolitans and many others) and for that reason I have no sympathy to her.

gamerchick · 12/12/2018 08:46

I have respect for anyone who can take on a job knowing it's going to be damage limitation

Bloody right! I wouldn't do her job and I'll bet the vast majority of the whiny on here wouldn't either.

Where is Cameron, just went fucking poof the coward.