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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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AwdBovril · 28/03/2019 16:31

Morally I feel that I should feel sorry for her, on the grounds that her health is obviously taking abit of a battering, if nothing else. But no, I really just can't. She has cut public services to the bone in her current & previous positions, she seems absolutely hell bent on driving the country off a cliff in the name of democracy (regardless of the legality of it). She seems determined to screw us all over, so frankly I think, screw her right back.

The80sweregreat · 28/03/2019 16:32

haze, i totally agree with you. The love for a party that should be cleaning up and calling out the Tories for all this mess, is astonishing.
I dont vote Conservative, but i can see why others do when you look across at J C and his faithful followers - they seem more of a rabble than most of the others when it should be the other way around. He does not have the killer shots to get under their skin and show them up.
sad days for everyone.

Thurmanmurman · 28/03/2019 16:33

I hate the Tory party but yes I do feel sorry for her as a human being she has aged about ten years since becoming PM.

Peregrina · 28/03/2019 16:33

I think when Theresa goes, I'd probably like to see Savid Javid as the next PM.

He might just get it - the fall guy. Ticks the boxes - brown skin, Muslim - look at us Tories we are not racist intolerant bigots. Until the coast is clear and Boris or another of the lowest of the low thinks it's time to have another go.

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 28/03/2019 16:37

Graphista and Wall bangers have said it all for me, really
However she could try to get herself out of this "stress' by maybe giving the vote back to the people.
I honestly believe the result would be to remain, now.

DGRossetti · 28/03/2019 16:39

DGRossetti spot on 100% with all your posts. I think I love you, Dante

Blush Shock

In the interests of balance, the real DGR was a bit of a bastard Sad

Hazeintheclouds · 28/03/2019 16:44

Is there any point in blaming those people who voted Leave? It is hard not to.

DGRossetti · 28/03/2019 16:54

Morally I feel that I should feel sorry for her, on the grounds that her health is obviously taking abit of a battering, if nothing else.

...at the same time as people with far worse heath are being denied benefits they are entitled to, forced to work, and called "lying bitches" by the very people supposed to support them, I guess I'm a heartless piece of shit for still not feeling sorry for her.

happyhillock · 28/03/2019 16:56

Why is it the people who voted leave fault that's just a ridiculous thing to say, it's the politicians who wanted to remain have caused the problems, we never had all this crap in Scotland when the Scots voted to stay in the union, the result was the result everybody just on with there lives, oh incase you haven't noticed Nicola Sturgeon can't accept the NO vote either, she want's another referendum, politician's cause the problem not the voter's

Accountant222 · 28/03/2019 16:57

I also feel sorry for her, personally I'd have put my coat and walked a long time since. But they seem to love the prestige and power and actually the salary isn't that much considering the responsibility. She was a rubbish Home Secretary.

DGRossetti · 28/03/2019 16:59

Why is it the people who voted leave fault that's just a ridiculous thing to say, it's the politicians who ...

lied about Leave that should be held accountable for their folly.

Mummyshark2019 · 28/03/2019 17:01

Nope. Not in the least! She knew what she was getting into and she could still do the right thing and revoke article but she won't. Sooner she goes, the better.

Theworldisfullofgs · 28/03/2019 17:42

it's the politicians who wanted to remain

Oh dear. Not this again. Brexit is crap because its crap idea. If we leave we've got another 10 to 20 years of this...everything else pushed to one side.

Suggest you go and look at Roland Smith's stuff. He was a liberal leave campaigner who has completely abandoned it. Or Oliver Norgrove , a leave campaign staffer who now thinks it's a bad idea. Read their blogs. Stop reading the UKIP misinformation or listening to people like Mark Francois.

AutumnCrow · 28/03/2019 17:50

Nicola Sturgeon would be quite right to ask the Scottish people again if they want to remain in the UK, if the UK leaves the EU, happyhillock, given that a lot of Scots voted to stay in the UK precisely in order to ensure their continuing European citizenship and all the benefits thereof.

Things change, often seismically.

ssd · 28/03/2019 17:55

Are you all feeling sorry for her because she's a woman?
Would you feel sorry for a man in her position?

BertrandRussell · 28/03/2019 17:58

Windrush.

Those vile placard vans.

Nope. Don’t feel sorry for her at all.

bordellosboheme · 28/03/2019 18:24

I'm not a Conservative but yes I feel sorry for her. There is a lot of misogyny out there and I believe she is being pushed over a glass cliff. There is an interesting set of literature out there that whilst women are now managing to break through the glass ceiling there is a new phenomenon of women being moved into untenable positions. It is no coincidence that all the men stepped back when they realised what a cock up had been made. I read that she feels its her duty to get us through this difficult period but all these no deal twats are making things impossible.

Greensleeves · 28/03/2019 18:27

Feel sorry for her?

She's a vicious, racist, megalomaniacal fascist with a heart of stone.

I feel sorry for the people she's driven into destitution and suicide.

teyem · 28/03/2019 18:27

Yeah, I'd feel sorry for her even if she were a man. Just to keep it in perspective though, I only feel a little sorry for her and her increasingly grey looking form.

brizzlemint · 28/03/2019 18:33

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

Not in the EU she won't, she'll need a visa.

ThatssomebadhatHarry · 28/03/2019 18:34

I don’t think she would have made a decent PM without Brexit. She has failed at every role she has had in office. She NEVER answers a question properly. She memorises a few staple answers and seems to just answer with the one that fits. In addition to her dodgy dealings surrounding her husbands business. Just another self serving Tory. No sympathy from me.

DGRossetti · 28/03/2019 18:34

I'm not a Conservative but yes I feel sorry for her. There is a lot of misogyny out there

There is a lot of misogyny out there. But not much on this thread has really related to Theresa Mays sex, just the fact she's a dreadful person.

ScarletBitch · 28/03/2019 18:37

She took on the role and loved the power it gave her. Perhaps if she did as she promised and delivered the Leave as voted by, she would not be so stressed.

Redcrayons · 28/03/2019 18:39

*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!

And me too - whilst dramatically throwing a sheaf of paper in the air in my wake*

I'd actually have some respect for her if she did this. Instead of the 'vote for me and then I'll leave' or whatever that was about.

I feel more sorry for Philip tbh. hes probably rolling his eyes over dinner every night thinking 'ffs not brexit again'

bordellosboheme · 28/03/2019 18:40

Rossetti I wasn't talking abort mysogony on this thread. I was talking about it out there in the political sphere.