To feel desperately sorry for Theresa May

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On a human level I just feel so sorry for her - she looks like she's aged so much and is apparently becoming quite unwell because of the immense stress she's under. To be continually ripped to shreds by the despicable ERG and so many others in the House of Commons is just awful - I don't know how she does it. A few times I've seen her looking like she's on the verge of tears. I wonder if she goes home every night and just sobs - I know I would.

It's sad as I think she would have made a decent PM if Brexit didn't exist.

I have noticed that everyone who becomes PM ages terribly quickly and looks quite ill shortly after taking up office. Wouldn't want their job for anything!

No one held a gun to her head and forced her to be PM.

Don’t forget she decimated the police numbers when she was Home Secretary.

She’s lucky. She will make a fortune on the international Lecture Circuit in years to come.

I don’t feel sorry for her at all. I do feel sorry for people who are already struggling and won’t be able to afford the 20% price increases.

I don't feel the slightest bit sorry for her. She knew the job she was taking on and she knew that it was going to be a poisoned chalice thanks to Brexit. She then carried on putting personal ambition and party politics ahead of actually doing her job. Her current predicament is entirely of her own making.

Nope! She chose this and she's choosing not to step down. Her decisions are and have made millions of others ill even suicidal.

She wanted the power and hoped it would gain her a positive footnote in history, instead she'll likely go down as one of the worst pms we've ever had.

I do feel a bit sorry for her. I know she chose all this but blimey I would’ve walked away long ago.

What everyone else said.

I did, but on thinking about it, realised that she's made some bad decisions and is reaping the consequences.

I'm too busy feeling desperately sorry for all the people who've had their lives damaged and destroyed by Tory cuts and austerity.

I feel a bit sorry for her as I think she had good intentions, and probably underestimated the number of MPs who are unwilling to compromise even a tiny bit.

A bit like the Lib Dems in coalition, sometimes taking on the responsibility and trying to do the right thing makes you unpopular.

YABVU. Sympathy shouldn't be a factor for someone in a position like hers. I'm sure she wouldn't want sympathy either

I've literally just had this conversation with a friend, I can't imagine the stress. If it was me I would probably refuse to get out of bed and not go to work .

I do feel a bit sorry for her particularly as they are saying they will need her to stay on as there are no suitable alternates. So they keep ripping her to shreds whilst saying could you just stay and take it.

It's fairly shit, she has brought some of it on herself, but I think on a simply humane basis the abuse she gets is not acceptable.

In any other world being bullied out of your job like this by some colleagues would be a dismissable offence. And we are all watching her being bullied, which ever way we cut it.

Sympathy shouldn't be a factor for someone in a position like hers
Even though they're a fellow human being? I hope none of the posters saying she doesn't deserve sympathy are never in need of a shred of the stuff themselves....

I agree op.

She's 'taking one for the team' here.

I can't see how anyone else could do any better. Brexit is a shit storm. She's not the problem.

Her decisions are and have made millions of others ill even suicidal.

@Graphista How has she done that?

I agree OP. She took on the job of PM and did it out of a sense of duty. I think she's an admirable woman. She has zero clubbability/charisma and this affected her ability to negotiate with the EU/charm the public/persuade MPs to follow her deal. Most politicians have huge egos which need stroked and she strikes me as the sort of person who can't do that

Whilst I know that she chose this, and she has done some questionable stuff during her time in politics, I really don't see how a single other person could have done a better job that what she has done.

I really think that if I was her, then by now I would have stood up in the House of Commons, shouted 'fine then, do you know what, FUCK YOU ALL' and stormed out!

YANBU OP.
I would give up after a month in her position. No matter what she does, she will never make everyone happy. No one can do that.
Imagine that you work somewhere and there are 6 groups who hate each other, play like spiteful kids, attack each other and you and just generally keep being dicks.
No one can bloody work like that.
And Corbyn should go too tbh.

I don't feel the slightest bit sorry for her. She knew the job she was taking on and she knew that it was going to be a poisoned chalice thanks to Brexit. She then carried on putting personal ambition and party politics ahead of actually doing her job. Her current predicament is entirely of her own making

Exactly this

If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen seems to be a good solution in her circumstances. She hung on and hung on long after everything seems to have started going wrong for her so she can't be that upset about it.

As pp said, being pm seems to age every one of them very quickly after taking office.

I don't feel sorry for her. If she's the sort of woman that goes home and night and sobs into her pillow she probably wouldn't have had the mental strength and determination to get where she is in the first place.

She's played a game, now she's losing. She'll be fine. Ex pm generally seem to do very well both financially and as far as future employment goes. Save your sympathy for someone more worthy of it.

"Nope! She chose this and she's choosing not to step down."

But Graphista - she has agreed to step down if MPs vote for her deal!

It's just hard on a human level to see someone reduced to tears by others.

If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen seems to be a good solution in her circumstances

So if you were getting bullied in your job to Make you leave, you'd be good for them to tell you if you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen?

Aye you would.

She’s made a career out of making people’s lives a misery and treating them as less than human.

Fuck her!

This image stood out to me - she just looks so on her own. (I hope I'm allowed to post this on here - please remove if not @mumsnethq)

I do agree with the PP who said about cutting the police force - that was a dreadful thing to do. But I still can't help but feel some sympathy for her in her present predicament.

Oh come on, I do have some sympathy for the fact that no matter what she did, she was never going to get a deal through.

Most remainers and leavers would accept some compromise so that whichever way you voted, you could get hold of a good deal and live with the result of the referendum. The problem is she has hard brexiters and hard remainers, all willing to put stumbling blocks in every direction she tries to turn. Not just with her deal, with ANY deal she would have brought to the table.

So for that reason, I do feel sorry for her in that her health is clearly deteriorating. But she was naïve to think she could ever win with such in-fighting going on.