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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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insaneduetobrexit · 29/03/2019 13:23

May's legacy will be the treatment of the windrush and commonwealth citizens.

That is her legacy.

Amber Rudd and May and the treatment of the Windrush generation. AngryAngry

Good riddance.

chaosisaladder · 29/03/2019 13:32

I do feel for her. I’d never vote Tory in my life but on a human level, watching another woman who is in her position of trying to manage men who clearly don’t respect her, I do feel for her. Do I agree with her choices? Absolutely not.

Tonsilss · 29/03/2019 13:33

I think that anyone who actually cares about the country and its citizens would gave done a better job.

chaosisaladder · 29/03/2019 13:35

Not everyone has PD. The diagnosis is being phased out anyway. It really is true that some people are just complicated ShockSmile

sashh · 29/03/2019 15:46

May's legacy will be the treatment of the windrush and commonwealth citizens.

And disabled people.

Peregrina · 29/03/2019 16:08

I really don't know how she can go to Church regularly, and listen to teaching about looking after the poor, the sick and the stranger and then pursue those policies.

EmeraldShamrock · 29/03/2019 17:08

The proposal deal has failed for a 3rd time.

DGRossetti · 29/03/2019 17:11

I really don't know how she can go to Church regularly, and listen to teaching about looking after the poor, the sick and the stranger and then pursue those policies.

you can get invisible earbuds these days.

DGRossetti · 29/03/2019 18:15

Another reason to give zero fucks for May and her ilk. Again, most likely that women are disproportionately affected.

www.theregister.co.uk/2019/03/29/police_data_sharing_probe/

UK cops' sharing of data with the Home Office will be probed by oversight bodies following a super-complaint from civil rights groups, it was confirmed today.

At the heart of the issue is the way that victims' and witnesses' data collected by the police are shared with central government immigration teams.

Liberty and Southall Black Sisters last year lodged a super-complaint against the "systemic and potentially unlawful" practices, which allowed criminals to "weaponise" their victims" immigration status.

An investigation by the rights groups found that victims and witnesses were "frequently reported to immigration enforcement after reporting very serious crimes to the police".

This, Liberty said, risked deterring people – even those who do not have uncertain immigration statuses – from reporting crime, especially as the victims or witnesses "can be coerced into not reporting" crimes.

"The effect has been that they stay in situations where they continued to be abused, or are forced to participate in crime," it said.

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Blindandfrozen · 29/03/2019 18:32

Nope. Remember her laughing at the police federation and nastily accusing them of ‘crying wolf’ when they told her cutting police numbers would have dire consequences. Funnily enough she never addresses that now...

MissKenton · 29/03/2019 18:45

Nevermind her job title she is still a human being with feelings. I really do despise the Tory party but the way they have turned their back on their leader (Thatcher gate part 2) shows the mark of the party really. I don’t see the same reaction levied against Cameron who haplessly offered us the referendum.

EerieSilence · 29/03/2019 18:53

She was a Home Secretary and the decisions she made had a huge negative impact on many people's lives.
She gambled she can manage people like Johnson, Gove or Raab who only ever thought of themselves and their own benefit in their lives.
She was stupid enough to have asked Merkel to help her make Brexit a success some time ago. Seriously?!?!
She will happily resign now and be known as the soured faced person who left Britain in total and absolute chaos, having lost all external credibility, not even the fun factor is there now as Europe have ran out of popcorn and soda.
She will get her pension and spend her life taking care of her garden and/or giving lectures on how she did her best to keep Britain stable.

Any reason to feel sorry for her?

Theworldisfullofgs · 29/03/2019 19:23

I don’t see the same reaction levied against Cameron who haplessly offered us the referendum.

Cameron resigned. That doesn't mean he isn't a twat.

WhiteDust · 29/03/2019 20:03

I don't feel sorry for her one bit.
She gets paid. A lot.
She is NOT working alone.
She has stylists, PR/PA teams, speech writers, advisors, cleaners, cooks, chauffeurs at her beck and call. Not to mention her 'cabinet' who do a ton of work (or get their teams to do it.
She's a figurehead/spokesperson for a huge organisation. Not some poor woman with the weight of the world on her shoulders.

Hazeintheclouds · 29/03/2019 20:30

People can be so naive.

TheGardenFairy · 29/03/2019 21:13

I don't feel sorry for her one bit.
She gets paid. A lot.
She is NOT working alone.
She has stylists, PR/PA teams, speech writers, advisors, cleaners, cooks, chauffeurs at her beck and call. Not to mention her 'cabinet' who do a ton of work (or get their teams to do it.
She's a figurehead/spokesperson for a huge organisation. Not some poor woman with the weight of the world on her shoulders

And....Your problem with someone working hard and earning more money than you is because....What??

Goldmandra · 29/03/2019 21:36

And....Your problem with someone working hard and earning more money than you is because....What??

Nobody said they had a problem with it. They said they didn't feel sorry for her.

Alsohuman · 29/03/2019 21:38

The problem is creating a political shitstorm and fucking the country up.

BertrandRussell · 29/03/2019 21:47

It is actually amazing how little the Primw Minister is paid.

LeadMeToTheChocolate · 29/03/2019 21:58

Torn between feeling that she’s been the scape goat whereby she can’t do right for doing wrong with her own species (party).... and thinking she’s a total twat who has brought it all on herself and who needs to be euthanised for the sake of human kind. She was crap in the home office and even worse in Downing Street.

Every time I see her bedraggled face I telepathically beg her to declare that’s it’s all a pile of shite and that she’s walking away.

LeadMeToTheChocolate · 29/03/2019 21:59

Ps I hated Cameron too.

MissKenton · 29/03/2019 22:01

She was voted in as PM just as the Tories were voted in by the people. People made choices, perhaps bad and misguided ones but I see no accountability whatsoever. We the British public own some of this crap too, you can’t blame it all on Teresa May!

Thankssomuch · 29/03/2019 22:13

bertrandrussell you’re right. PMs earn relatively little compared to investment bankers etc.

BertrandRussell · 30/03/2019 00:11

Yep- if May had stayed in banking she would probably be earning much more than she is earning now.