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.

She's had a worse time as she is female.
That's my only thought.
It's good that the Tories like women in the top jobs ( labour has never had a female leader ) but they tend to give them a much harder time of it. She might have been ok if it wasn't for Brexit, but then she wouldn't be there if it wasn't for Brexit.
She probably thought it would be easier than it is to 'sort out' to be fair. It's not.
I'm sure she'll be fine when she's nicely retired with millions in the bank and a ghost writer for her memoirs and the odd appearances on election nights in the future.

I hate TM as a politician - for the way she behaved as Home Secretary, for her refusal to work with anyone to negotiate with the EU and because she put her ambition before her people. However, the way the bully boys in her party have behaved is absolutely despicable! They don't want the Brexit poisoned chalice but are happy to urge her to drink long and deep of it! All I can hope is that Rees-Mogg, Johnson et al rip each other apart in the upcoming leadership contest and we end up with a PM with a shred of decency and not any of the, quite frankly terrifying array extra right-wing, misogynistic arses that seem to be floating to the top of the Tories currently.

Yes I feel sorry for her. She has tried her hardest to get deal that allows us to leave the EU as, like it or not, the referendum showed that majority of voters want out. Leavers dont want any deal. Remainers are calling her everything because they don't want a deal either. They think she can just ignore the result of the referendum and revoke A50 just like that.

No matter what she does....leave with no deal, or revoke A50 half the country are going to be up in arms.

There is only so much constant criticism anyone can take. The poor woman needs to bow out now and leave the job to one of the other fuckwits. It's someone else's turn for a battering now.

Not one bit. She has handeled Brexit atrociously since she stood up at the Party Conference in 2016 and annouced her ludicrous and divise red lines. As an MEP put it a few days ago, she lacks the 'basic human skills' needed to be an effective political leader today. No wonder she is so visbily struggling.

No sympathy whatsoever. She is taking one for the Tory team as it were for the moment as the role is a total poisoned chalice regardless of the posturing from people who allegedly want the role, and she will swan off into the sunset with multimillionaire husband at a time to be agreed. Awful woman.

If you took the best bits from Churchill, Mandela, JFK, Elizabeth 1st and Margaret Thatcher and made this political 'magazord' prime minister, you would still have a core of MPs that want to frustrate Brexit at every turn, using every trick an opportunity to do so. You would also have a core of labour MPs that want to bring down the government and force an early election at the expense of an orderly Brexit and the good of the nation. You would also have the hardline Brexiteers who demand a clean break hard Brexit, with no malleability on concessions. When considered together I can't see how a majority consensus can be reached, even with the megazord at the helm.

I love democracy and hate totalitarian regimes, but 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.

She is doing an impossible job. I'm not sure I feel sorry for her; she earns well and has a lucrative future on the after-dinner circuit, but i'd sure as hell like to make her a cup of tea and give her a day or two off.

Are you actually joking?

• she never had to take the job
• she never had to trigger article 50

• she never had to call an election
• she never had to KEEP the damn job
• she never had to pull her red lines nonsense
• she never had to pull the drawbridge up and allow no consensus to form around a deal
• she had done nothing else on her watch to look after the country she apparently loves so bloody much
• she is clearly not up to the job, but she is clinging on to it anyway because POWER, even though it means causing immense economic damage to the poorest of those she works for
• she didn't have to get into bed with the vile DUP
• she deliberately stoked a racist sentiment to suit her anti-immigration beliefs, such that racist attacks have more than doubled in the last five years

And you feel sorry for her because she looks a bit knackered. Jesus actual christ.

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!

This^^ I think whoever had taken Brexit on would be in the same position and I do feel sympathy for her. As the old saying goes "you can't please all of the people all of the time" but she is expected to do just that

Hmmm in response to windrush she built the hostile environment so has to take some of the responsibility.

I have always thought that people who seek this level of power have characteristics that make them the least suitable to be our champion, spokesperson and leader. The last few days have been just so utterly depressing. I don't feel sorry for her at all, when was the last time you saw MPs staying in the Houses of Parliament till 10pm discussing child poverty, knife crime, sorting out the NHS. It's an absolute disgrace.

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!

If she actually did that it would be BRILLIANT!

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?

WIth courtesy, the comparison does not work, because Mrs May is also an immense bully.

As Home Sec she presided over her Snoopers' Charter, even when every IT expert advised that destrying the public's right to privacy would provide ZERO benefit in preventing terrorism.
She wanted OFCOM to be able to vet British tv programmes before transmission (free speech anyone?!)
She wanted - her own workds "to create a hostile environment" & had buses plastered with "Go Home" slogans.
In the run up to the 2016 election she persistently referred to "my MP's" which kinda tips the wink that she believes MPs are there to serve her, not their constituents.
She cut police budgets by 20% & then blamed the police for rising crime rates.
As Home Sec one of her major themes was denoucing the Human Rights Act.
She changed her own mind about Brexit, but does not believe the public has the same right.

I agree with her being bullied by a bunch of men, and all of us standing by watching and not doing anything. Awful to see, and yes, I do feel very sorry for her.

I’m pissed off with her saying and doing the opposite to what she said and did a couple of years ago, and not just on Brexit.

She can sod off.

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

Add Windrush and the "lost files" on child sex abuse - she deserves everything she gets

Yes, she is a bully.

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!

My respect for her would quadruple if she did do that. i wish she would.

It's really interesting its felt that she's being bullied by a bunch of men.

Her normal tactic is to out silence people, ignore them or give them the cold shoulder. The Matthew Paris article was scathing. I think whilst it might be perceived she is bullying others I'm not at all convinced she isn't above a bit of bullying herself. Just a different version.

And to stand there day after day and be told by a bunch of men, lining up, in a televised house of comments, to media reporters, to tell you how incapable you are, and hurl abuse at you? How's that not bullying?

So the fact shes a woman is a consideration? Otherwise why point out men having ago at her? Its not 50/50 but theres plenty of women in parliament also who dont agree with her, but lets focus on the men, because shes a woman.

Its not like male PMs have faced public criticisms of their decisions

It's hard to feel sorry for somebody who - upon being told that her policies would cause pain replies: "British people voted for pain."

www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1104029/Brexit-news-UK-EU-Theresa-May-Sir-Vince-Cable-Jeremy-Corbyn-no-deal-Article-50-extension

That's a Tory newspaper for you.

I don't think sympathy is a finite resource, so I don't particularly feel that it can go to only a few deserving cases. I could have a bit left over for Theresa May. But she is, in my opinion, a woman who gained a reputation for being very tough in the Home Office (I do not say that as either compliment or criticism) and she thought she could cement her reputation as a strong politician through delivering Brexit. Like just about everyone, she realised too late that Brexit is virtually undeliverable without dreadful division, messy compromise, and severe consequences.
I would say she overreached herself, but Brexit is so undeliverable that anyone would have found the same.

I do feel a little sorry for her, tbh.

I think when we're saddled with BoJo, Loathsome or Pob, we'll have a better idea of the shit she was holding back. Fun times.

Is there a May promotion campaign going on today?

Yes, I certainly think she is getting the blame for something that was always going to fail. Everyone says she made a mess of the negotiations but honestly there is no unicorns and rainbows happy Brexit, it would have been like this regardless of who was in charge... It was an impossible task.

Estrella what a bloody brilliant post

but honestly there is no unicorns and rainbows happy Brexit

She needed to come clean on that though.