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To feel desperately sorry for Theresa May

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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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stopfuckingshoutingatme · 29/03/2019 06:36

I do too

I have no idea how she does this day in and day out and her MH must be suffering

It’s an impossible job . No win

Time to let someone else deal with it

I always had a feeling brexit won’t happen as sooner or later someone will have to speak up and offer a second decision . I hope I am Right

SchadenfreudePersonified · 29/03/2019 08:22

the only way out of this is to appoint a supreme leader for a couple of years, then sack him/her once its all done

Are you on glue?

Which political intellectual giant would you suggest?

And how would you propose to get them out of office when their time was up?

malificent7 · 29/03/2019 08:31

She's a tough cookie and will be fine.
Tbh she knows she cannot win but its a job.
I might feel more sorry for her if she hadn't instigated windrush and laif off 20, 000 police officers.

malificent7 · 29/03/2019 08:32

Laid off. Not to mention those awful go home buses.

sashh · 29/03/2019 08:38

I have zero sympathy for her.

There is so much she could have done or should have done better. She decided she would create her own little brexit with her own red lines, not a thought for NI or the people who couldn't vote.

Thinking you can undo decades of legislation and agreements with 27 other countries in 2 years was either stupidity or incompetence.

Know you can't do it and still triggering article 50 is psychopathic.

LeesPostersAreInFrames · 29/03/2019 08:45

No sympathy at all.
If I as a lay person could tell that she took on an impossible job, one that nobody else wanted for good reason, she knew that too. She took the money and the title; she can go whistle that she's finding it impossible work now.

She's literally F-ing the country over; I'm sorry not sorry that I don't give a damn about her mental welfare.

GeriGremlin · 29/03/2019 08:49

Yanbu

She was passed a poisoned chalice

And I hope she does well in her career once she is no longer pm, to compensate for her terrible time

BertrandRussell · 29/03/2019 08:52

I think it mus be some sort of psychopathy. She doesn't need the money, after all. And she is trashing her own reputation. Could there be something in it financially for Philip? Some massive business coup?

Abra1de · 29/03/2019 08:55

As has been pointed out before, Philip doesn’t have a role that is affected by anything that TM does.

‘After his wife Theresa May, now the British Prime Minister,[8] emerged as the only remaining candidate for the Conservative party leadership, his employer issued a statement saying that his current job does not make him responsible for investment decisions: "he is not involved with, and doesn't manage, money and is not a portfolio manager. His job is to ensure the clients are happy with the service and that we understand their goals.‘

Tanith · 29/03/2019 09:00

This is all her own doing and her husbands company stands to make £millions out of brexit.

I'm so surprised that more people don't pick up on this. It's been mentioned so many times and no-one seems to attach much importance to it.
Her disastrous statement to the nation last Wednesday was apparently her husband's idea, too.

And people talk about Democracy!!

BertrandRussell · 29/03/2019 09:01

“As has been pointed out before, Philip doesn’t have a role that is affected by anything that TM does”

Yeah, right........

NCforthis2019 · 29/03/2019 09:09

people talking about her blue coat - maybe thats a better post for the fashion segment? Would you ever say someting a mans suit? No? Women love tearing into other women dont they!

HellAndDegenerates · 29/03/2019 09:13

Would you ever say someting a mans suit? No?

And yet a male MP has recently been mocked by a great deal of people for serif a wig.. Micheal Fabricant..
Just saying..

Yabbers · 29/03/2019 09:15

I feel sorry for her. She is living proof of the glass cliff.

Kittykatmacbill · 29/03/2019 09:52

No.

She was a horrible home secretary, loosing the wind rush files and the ‘get out’ van.

She ‘watched’ over the country fail record number of foodbanks, record amount of child poverty and debt, whilst the she fails to convince parliament of something that she campaigned against.

Alsohuman · 29/03/2019 09:52

Oh piss off with the blue coat bollocks, Boris' hair is constantly ridiculed.

BlooperReel · 29/03/2019 09:54

Not much to be honest, she could have resigned time and again but has doggedly clung on to 'power'.

Peregrina · 29/03/2019 09:57

She was passed a poisoned chalice

No, she decided to pick up the chalice. It's possible that she didn't realise the strength of the poison, despite being told about it.

[Philip May's] employer issued a statement saying that his current job does not make him responsible for investment decisions:

Disingenuous. If his firm is making oodles of money, then he and Treeza aren't be going to the food bank for support any time soon.

Hazeintheclouds · 29/03/2019 10:00

She knew very well it was a poisoned chalice but her greedy claws grabbed it.

BertrandRussell · 29/03/2019 10:11

“Women love tearing into other women dont they!”

No.

BertrandRussell · 29/03/2019 10:12

“She knew very well it was a poisoned chalice but her greedy claws grabbed it.“

But greedy for what?

Peregrina · 29/03/2019 10:18

Consider the criticism that Michael Foot, got for wearing a 'donkey jacket' to the Cenotaph, when it was actually quite an expensive coat. Or remember Cameron sneering at Corbyn for not wearing a tie, and not looking smart, and then telling him to go?

The sad thing to my mind about Treeza's clothes is that despite being expensive, many of them don't flatter her. The red suit she had on with the blue scarf, which she wore when meeting Trump was flattering.

Limensoda · 29/03/2019 10:19

I feel as sorry for her as I did for Thatcher as she left Downing Street and was driven away crying......so that's not at all.

AzureApps · 29/03/2019 10:23

Nah, her ego drove her to where she is, the specific role she took was to deliver brexit after David Cameron stepped down.

She must be a driven and determined person to get this far in politics and she put her hand up for this, so no sympathy from me.