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AIBU?

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To feel sorry for Theresa May?

95 replies

lowlycattle · 28/03/2019 14:53

I'm a die hard labour corbynite but I do feel sorry for Mrs May she's had a bad run of it. AIBU

OP posts:
BackinTimeforBeer · 28/03/2019 17:21

Nope she's made a mess of Brexit and what's more all that bullshit about making our society more equal - where did all that go. She has been dreadful - but I dread to think which idiot will replace her.

CharlyAngelic · 28/03/2019 21:07

Odd postings for newbie .

CharlyAngelic · 28/03/2019 21:08

Sorry, that was meant for the other thread.

barwench · 28/03/2019 22:38

Unfortunately for the PM she was doomed from the start and it isn't helped by her indecisiveness

EmeraldShamrock · 24/05/2019 19:24

I feel sorry for TM today, She has had an impossible job to salvage something out of Brexit when parliament was intent on not reaching an agreement. She at least managed to delay driving the country off the edge.
I wonder if after all her efforts to respect the people's vote will pay off, who will replace her.

lboogy · 24/05/2019 19:31

Why do people harp on about grenfeld? She had nothing to do with the fire. Things were already heated at the time of the fire so her turning up to pass on condolences would have only inflamed things further with likely mobs throwing rotten fruit at her. The victims haven't been rehoused because many of them are turning down the homes being offered. They don't want to move out of the area, flats offered are too high up etc etc. All legitimate complaints given what they have been through but we can't magic up street level houses in the area if they are none!

Anyway OP you are not being unreasonable. She had a horrendous task. Now it's likely 120k mostly men in the Conservative party membership are going to give us Boris.

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 24/05/2019 19:33

Well who am I to tell you how you should feel.
However I won't be losing any sleep worrying about her.

EmeraldShamrock · 24/05/2019 19:37

Bully boys back together, until they want to walk away again, at this stage who knows, no-one could have predicted all this in their wildest dreams 4 years ago.
Fuck knows what will happen now.
The amount of time and money spent, while important government issues have been put to the side.

Hepzibar · 24/05/2019 19:47

Save your pity for the children who have suffered under this Tory government. Feel sorry for the communities who have been devastated and ghettoised under TM.

Children living in poverty, rise in mental health, suffering because of Universal Credits.

TM and her cronies don't give a fuck about ordinary working people and those who need help.

I think she is heartless, hard faced, and lacking in any social conscious whatsoever.

I don't feel one iota of sympathy for her.
Trouble is, it's very likely her successor will be even worse.

needmorespace · 24/05/2019 19:51

hahahahahahaha
Like fuck I feel sorry for her.
She called it right when she called her party nasty. All of them, every single one of them.
Nye Bevan also called it.

NotACleverName · 24/05/2019 19:55

Hostile environment
Grenfell
Windrush
Austerity

Fuck her. Fuck her and everything she stands for.

Iwannasnack · 24/05/2019 19:56

YABVU

Hostile environment
Go home vans
Calling a snap election when she said she wouldn’t and losing her majority
Complete inability to compromise and attempting to cling on to power at any cost.

I won’t blame her for Grenfell, austerity, universal credit, poverty because that is not all her own doing but she has a large path to play.

Plinney · 24/05/2019 19:57

Not one bit do I feel sorry for her. Her pathetic tears entirely predictable as its all about her.

Mendacious liar.

Completely vain.

Deluded.

Trashed this country for 3 years.

Her pathetic trips to Brussels begging for more humiliation - dire beyond words.

She will be rewarded for her treachery and cretinous monomania with a seat in the House of Lords and an easy, comfy life.

Iwannasnack · 24/05/2019 19:57

I forgot windrush!
As others said the only problem is I’m afraid what comes next may be even worse

Gth1234 · 24/05/2019 19:59

of course YABU.

She still hasn't effing gone. She is determined to have her moment in the spotlight with the president at the DD celebrations. They are having to prise the chalice from her cold dead fingers. The 200 Tories who voted to keep her in charge when they had the chance to get rid should be ashamed of themselves.

May has done the worse piece of work for this country over the last 3 years since Chamberlain came back from Munich. She dismissed her appointed representatives and did the lot herself. There was not one word of apology.

I have voted Tory mostly for the last 30 years, but I voted out in the referendum, and Brexit on Thursday.

MitziK · 24/05/2019 20:00

YABU.

She didn't feel sorry for anybody forced into using Food Banks.

She didn't feel sorry for anybody deemed fit for work whilst they were actively dying.

She didn't feel sorry for those people who were refused medical treatment, made homeless, lost jobs or were deported.

She didn't feel sorry for anybody or anything. Until she felt sorry for herself in front of the cameras.

Plinney · 24/05/2019 20:01

She completely failed to fulfill her promise of Brexit, but congratulates herself on being the second female PM. Again, all about her. Spineless, vacuous, a waste of 3 years, but she is only concerned with her reputation.

MissChananderlerbong · 24/05/2019 20:04

I think she's a good person who went into the role with the best of intentions. I liked her at the beginning. I'm a feminist I was excited by a female PM... but she really has made some awful decisions.
I think her advisors have been poor too.
I think politics is bloody hard and friends of mine who are politicians have had to compromise their beliefs at some stage to be democratic.
She was given an impossible task.
Let's see how the next one fairs

Unfinishedkitchen · 24/05/2019 20:06

Notice how she only cried when she lost her job? Not for Grenfell, kids in poverty, disabled killing themselves as they can’t get benefits. Remember ‘citizens of nowhere’, the ‘go home’ bus?

She only cried because she is no longer PM. However, not to worry, after it’s all died down, she’ll write a book and go on a lucrative speaking tour. Her DH is also a hedge fund manager so she’ll be alright. Not so sure about the British Steel workers or former Jamie’s Italian employees though.

comeonsummer2019 · 24/05/2019 20:08

Feel sorry for these corrupt,rich,dishonest,scamming expense claiming,over paid politicians.... NO I do not! Especially not for TM!

Like many people I work my arse off to provide for my family and these politicians seem to not only make life harder for us but conveniently they seem to be getting better off at our expense!

I only shake my head at the many allowing the few to control, cover up, manipulate us into doing exactly what they want.

To mention only a few:
Austerity
The windrush scandal
Falling police officers
Rising knife crime

If you feel sorry a Torry then you must be blind.

Unfinishedkitchen · 24/05/2019 20:09

Also nobody forced her to sign Article 50 so quickly. Yes she took on a hard job, however, she made so many terrible decisions it almost defies the laws of probability.

DroningOn · 24/05/2019 20:09

Not to mention she took on the role that no one else wanted

Nobody forced her, like almost all politicians, driven by ego and a unfaltering sense of self worth.

Glad she'd gone

Carpetburns · 24/05/2019 20:12

I agree. Poor lady. She was set up to fail Sad

Mishappening · 24/05/2019 20:12

"But, the mission to make Britain a country that works for everyone means more than fighting these injustices.
"If you’re from an ordinary working class family, life is much harder than many people in Westminster realise.
"You have a job, but you don’t always have job security. You have your own home but you worry about paying the mortgage.
"You can just about manage, but you worry about the cost of living and getting your kids into a good school.
"If you’re one of those families, if you’re just managing, I want to address you directly. I know you’re working around the clock, I know you’re doing your best and I know that sometimes life can be a struggle.
"The government I lead will be driven, not by the interests of the privileged few, but by yours. We will do everything we can to give you more control over your lives.
"When we take the big calls, we’ll think not of the powerful, but you.
"When we pass new laws, we’ll listen not to the mighty, but to you.
"When it comes to taxes, we’ll prioritise not the wealthy, but you."

My arse!

Remember all that? That was her promise to the "just managing" - appealing to what she thought were her core voters - never mind of the seriously poor; and no action on behalf of either group.

I refuse to feel sad for a privileged rich woman who made promises that were total eyewash - she will do a David Cameron and float off into a comfortable life of overpaid after-dinner speeches; and she will rest on the fat cushion of her husband's wealth.

I am not impressed by her crocodile tears. I think Nicola Sturgeon is being amazingly charitable. I hold TM in contempt.

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 24/05/2019 20:13

WTF is she crying about.
Shes not going to end up at a food bank or in the dole queue or be tasting her own UC medicine.

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