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To feel desperately sorry for Theresa May

398 replies

ferns99 · 28/03/2019 11:58

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.

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FrozenMargarita17 · 28/03/2019 22:36

I just can't imagine the stress she is under. I struggle leaving the house some days and I'm certainly nowhere near her position.

flirtygirl · 28/03/2019 22:37

She deserves no sympathy at all.

Feel sorry for those who have died under universal credit.
Feel sorry for those deported in the Windrush scandal and its still happening.
Feel sorry for the police putting their health at risk due to cuts and teachers and nurses and anyone working hard under stupid cuts and stress whilst being poorly paid.

Feel sorry for all those on crap contracts and zero hours contracts.
Feel sorry for those with a mental health problem.
Feel sorry for the homeless.
Feel sorry for the country fucked over because of Brexit and her utter crap leadership and she was the fool who triggered article 50.
Feel sorry for people alot less privileged than Theresa May.

Unfinishedkitchen · 28/03/2019 22:38

Hmmm let me think... the ‘go home’ bus, Windrush scandal, hiding from Grenfell victims when even the Queen visited them, ‘citizens of nowhere’, ‘Brexit means Brexit’, ‘red, white and blue Brexit’, ‘strong and stable’, fucking the police over....nah YABVU.

SchadenfreudePersonified · 28/03/2019 22:51

What Flirtygitl and unfinishedkitchen have said.

user1497997754 · 28/03/2019 22:53

She is not a machine....just a human being....I am looking forward to her leaving and having a life outside of Brexit and I would be sticking 2 fingers up to parliament on the way out...the lot of them are back stabbing bastard....she has tried her best....end of....I wish her a happy retirement with lots of nice times with her hubby.

IamtheDevilsAvocado · 28/03/2019 23:10

Sorry for her? Nope...

Sorry for the people who's bloody mad decisions impact

user1471498837 · 28/03/2019 23:16

YABU have you not heard of the windrush scandal? This is all her own doing and her husbands company stands to make £millions out of brexit. When this is all over we will be left in the shit and she will be skipping off into the sunset with a nice little fortune. She is a cunt.

Writersblock2 · 28/03/2019 23:19

Glass cliff. Yes, I feel sorry for her.

FilthyforFirth · 28/03/2019 23:24

I cannot bear people feeling sorry for thus laothesome pathetic excuse for a PM. She explicitely went after this job but being a non commital remainer in 2016. She did this so she would have suppport from the ERG nutters when she eventually took over. Everything she has done has been calculating and for one purpose only, to cling on to number 10 at any costs. She is the worst PM ever and I cannot wait to be rid of her.

RomanyQueen1 · 28/03/2019 23:27

FlirtyGirl

Has it spot on!

Tonsilss · 28/03/2019 23:30

She's a bully and has no redeeming features. Just out for herself, and couldn't care less about the country.

Hazeintheclouds · 28/03/2019 23:35

“flirtygirl

She deserves no sympathy at all.

Feel sorry for those who have died under universal credit.
Feel sorry for those deported in the Windrush scandal and its still happening.
Feel sorry for the police putting their health at risk due to cuts and teachers and nurses and anyone working hard under stupid cuts and stress whilst being poorly paid.

Feel sorry for all those on crap contracts and zero hours contracts.
Feel sorry for those with a mental health problem.
Feel sorry for the homeless.
Feel sorry for the country fucked over because of Brexit and her utter crap leadership and she was the fool who triggered article 50.
Feel sorry for people alot less privileged than Theresa May.”

Spot on.

Hazeintheclouds · 28/03/2019 23:37

wish her a happy retirement with lots of nice times with her hubby.

Are you for real? Laughable.🤣🤣🤣

wherearemychickens · 28/03/2019 23:50

Nope, no sympathy from me either. She is behaving unbelievably recklessly, is rigidly dogmatic, has unerringly struck the wrong notes and made the wrong decision at every turn, has no ability to think strategically, has authoritarian tendencies, apparently no empathy or sympathy and no evident leadership skills. She is singularly unsuitable to be our Prime Minister at this point in our history.

EmeraldShamrock · 29/03/2019 00:09

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12thofnever · 29/03/2019 00:10

I don’t think sympathy is the right word, I don’t like her and I don’t think she’s a great PM, but I do feel something for her in that she stepped into a lose/lose situation.
‘Desperately Sorry’ is very unreasonable to me.

Gamechanger12e3 · 29/03/2019 00:18

Well... Shes better than Claire Underwood. 😂😂😂

Topseyt · 29/03/2019 00:34

Sympathy is the wrong word, I agree. I can't find the right one though.

I don't like her, but I wouldn't even pretend that I could do her job though. You couldn't pay me in diamonds to go anywhere near it.

I never understood why she seemed so desperate to cling on to it after the General Election debacle. It was clearly going to be an impossible task. There simply must be days when she regrets having done that and wonders what the fuck she must have been thinking. She still did it though.

I wish she would just have the common sense to declare Brexit as undeliverable and revoke Article 50 before it really is too late. That, unfortunately, seems very unlikely.

PregnantSea · 29/03/2019 02:15

On a human level I feel sorry for her - no one could be seen to be doing a good job of Brexit. It was always a bit of a suicide mission. And yes I agree that you can see it's made her very ill. I'm sure when this is over she's going to go on a long holiday.

But she chose this job. She was desperate for it. She's not stupid (although we all like to joke that she is), she's an intelligent, educated, middle-aged woman who has been in politics for a while. She knew what this would be and she went for it anyway. Power grab. So my sympathy never lasts.

CurlyWurlyTwirly · 29/03/2019 02:16

She is an evil, arrogant bitch.
She knows everyone hates her, so she is blackmailing MPs to get her Brexit deal through, so she will finally fuck off.

She doesn’t give 2 fucks about about an entire country, as long as her legacy is intact.
Retirement is too good for her. I hope she drops dead from a heart attack I despise that woman so much.

Broken11Girl · 29/03/2019 02:30

I do feel sorry for her as a human being, while vehemently disagreeing with her and disliking things she's done.
It's possible to feel sorry for the victims of Brexit. I say that as someone on necessary medications I'm worried sick about, with a low income - and have been much less fortunate, very vulnerable and know people who are. It's not either/ or.

curlykaren · 29/03/2019 02:42

She's utterly despicable, no sympathy here.

user1497997754 · 29/03/2019 05:54

I agree with revoking article 50 but it would upset all the very intelligent people who voted to leave lol....

Sostenueto · 29/03/2019 06:05

Unbelievable! Feel sorry for someone who has made this once proud country the laughing stock of the world? Who continually puts herself and her party before the country? Who has caused this mess by her inability to involve and consult with other members of Parliament in what is the biggest crisis this country has faced since the second World War? To blackmail, bully and lie so people vote for her turd of a deal that does not deliver Brexit but betrays both leavers and remainers? To feel sorry for someone that has divided the country even more? That passes the buck to everyone? That has massive personal ambition with extraordinary incompetence?
Not on your Nelly do I feel any pity for her. And those having to visit foidbanks will probably agree with meAngry

Peregrina · 29/03/2019 06:31

For one who loves to parade her Christianity at every turn, I would love someone to ask her, how do you reconcile this with
Matthew 25:35-40?

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35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’

37 “Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’

40 “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’