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Theresa Bloody May!

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Icanseegreenshoots · 20/01/2021 11:06

Why on earth doesn't she just shut up and fade from view? She is the very worst PM we have ever had, what in the world makes her think anyone cares what she thinks Confused

I am stunned by her arrogance, she was the laughing stock of the whole world for years, and yet she feels qualified to still pass comment?

Please can someone tell her WE DONT CARE what you think, you had your chance and you stuffed it up with your robotic soundbites and your lack of backbone, now please depart with dignity.

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LizFlowers · 20/01/2021 15:17

@Bouledeneige

I'm not a Blair apologist - I will never forgive him for the Iraq War - but it was his government that brought about the Northern Ireland peace agreement. A major achievement. There were a few other important advances through investment in health and education but then the economy was booming so they were making hay whilst the sun shone.
I agree. He did wonders for the NHS and home care facilities in a very short space of time. It's a pity he will mainly be remembered for weapons of mass destruction.
HettieMills · 20/01/2021 15:27

@HarrietPierce

The way OP is going on she/he sounds like a deranged Trump supporter.
Because Biden supporters are so much better right?

Oh. Wait.....

IntermittentParps · 20/01/2021 15:30

She was an abject failure as PM, but I have to say I am quite enjoying Backbench Theresa.

The Guardian has a report today on her DM article about Trump etc, and adds a bit snittily at the end that she was the first world leader to invite him over. Rather than snipe, I'd like to think she looks back on that with regret and is now feeling more sensible.

ilovesooty · 20/01/2021 16:00

I agree with @AlexaShutUp

I'm no fan of May but I'd agree that she has a developed sense of public duty even though I disagreed profoundly with her. Johnson simply wouldn't recognise the concept.

MayYouLiveInInterestingTimes · 20/01/2021 16:07

I think the op is hopelessly unfair. Why was Theresa May so bad exactly? The only things I have against her is the way she launched article 50 immediately, with no pause for thought or consideration when there was every ground for pausing and none at all for proceeding. Plus Windrush. Clearly someone did respect her or she wouldn’t have been there. She had an awful task standing between factions: the remainers, the old Tory party, and these new / old Victorian elitists and Brexiteers. That she was the one they turned to in the first place to balance such competing opposites tells you something. The way she was stabbed in the back by the rich Eton groups was beyond disgusting and stank of misogyny.

MayYouLiveInInterestingTimes · 20/01/2021 16:13

I don't think people realise what a difficult childhood he had either. Anyone else would be applauded for overcoming such difficulties.

Working class female child of Thatcher from a northern drug-ridden estate here.

You can’t be serious.

peak2021 · 20/01/2021 16:16

Theresa May is making occasional comments as a backbench MP. It would be failing the people who elected her if silence from her prevailed.

Better qualified to make comment than many in her party. Such as the incompetents in the cabinet (only two are even just about capable).

DrManhattan · 20/01/2021 17:09

Is the OP high? This thread is nuts.
How can anyone defend or even like Boris. The guy can't answer a simple question, he hides from the public and avoids COBRA meetings.
Needs sacking. I'm sure his party will turn on him before long.

LetMeBubble · 20/01/2021 17:12

No the OP is not nuts

The OP is his manipulated fiancé

McCorona · 20/01/2021 17:15

She is the very worst PM we have ever had

Really? You can't think of anyone else who has lied and cheated their way to the top and shattered everything that was good about this country?
I didn't like May and agree she was "cold fish" but I do think she had the best interests of the country at heart and was a decent and honest person.

Positivevibesonlyplease · 20/01/2021 18:01

She didn't seem to like high-flyers in her Cabinet I bet it was more that she wanted people she could trust. IMO, many of the ‘high-flyers’ are also backstabbers.

borntobequiet · 20/01/2021 18:46

Because Biden supporters are so much better right?

They mostly are.

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Icanseegreenshoots · 20/01/2021 18:48

Actually I have thought about it, and yes you are right she is not the worst PM ever, in hindsight I might hand that accolade to John Major perhaps. However I do think she needs to stop sniping, as an MP she can challenge the government of course, and do her job as an MP, but she should avoid the endless snippy comments that make her look bitter. It is not a good look being sour about every little thing.

Thank you for your comments, I have read them all.

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Icanseegreenshoots · 20/01/2021 18:50

And just for the record I am not Carrie!! Grin I like Boris, yes, but not that much

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VinylDetective · 20/01/2021 18:54

Why on earth do you think Major was the worst PM ever? He brokered most of the Northern Ireland peace agreement.

jasjas1973 · 20/01/2021 18:57

I like Boris

well, at least your honest!

All PMs face particular challenges.
John Major at least helped end IRA terrorism, even if he was quite weak, certainly couldn't keep it in his pants, bit like Johnson.

The nearest comparison to Johnson would be Chamberlain, he did some good things, certainly tried, but ultimately was unsuited to war, so he resigned... Bojo is unsuited to a Pandemic, unfortunately for all of us, he lacks the insight to resign.

He also gave us a disastrous Brexit, he hasn't really got anything going for him at all has he?

Peregrina · 20/01/2021 18:58

I don't think speaking out against breaking International Law is sniping. It should never have been considered in the first place, particularly since the ink was barely dry on the agreement that the Johnson Government were too lazy to read.

I don't think speak out against reneging on an agreement to help the poorest countries in the world is sniping. It was something we should have been proud to have agreed, but now with a Government which babbles on about being global that's some good will thrown away.

Sniping is the sort of rubbish that Johnson and Rees-Mogg come out with.

relaxtakeiteasyeatcheese · 20/01/2021 19:00

BoJo is far worse than May. Poor BoJo always always looks rough as guts, very unhealthy and sleep deprived. Not exactly the image we want to project to the world.

Ilovegreentomatoes · 20/01/2021 19:03

First worst Blair.2nd place Boris

HettieMills · 20/01/2021 20:27

Because Biden supporters are so much better right?

They mostly are.

No. They're not.

VestaTilley · 20/01/2021 20:39

YABU. She was a far better PM than Boris or Cameron, and a far, far nicer person.

She may have been awkward (rather like Gordon Brown) but she at least loved Britain, was very moral, Christian and genuinely was trying to do good. She was far, far better than self-serving adulterous Boris who is only in it for himself.

And I’m a lifelong labour voter.

CoRhona · 20/01/2021 20:47

@HettieMills

Because Biden supporters are so much better right?

They mostly are.

No. They're not.

Yes. They really are.
HettieMills · 20/01/2021 20:49

Yes. They really are.

Well we're all entitled to our opinion aren't we. I expect at some point soon people will start to see the light on that one.

AuntyPasta · 20/01/2021 21:00

Well, Biden supporters didn’t storm the Capitol and try to overthrow democracy ...

HarrietPierce · 20/01/2021 21:04

AuntyPasta Wed 20-Jan-21 21:00:29
Well, Biden supporters didn’t storm the Capitol and try to overthrow democracy ...

This