To think Theresa May was given a very hard time?

[plodalong12]

Just as the thread title says really. I feel like she had a really hard time whilst trying to manage a poisoned chalice in the form of Brexit.
I also think it’s interesting that it’s the tories and other political parties that have had female leaders but the Labour Party has so far had none despite putting themselves across as the party of equality.

Yes I agree @adeleh - we all make those judgements and I'm not saying that clever people can't make bad judgements or decisions - that happens a lot.

What I am saying is that to disagree that someone is intellectually and academically clever when you've not met them is odd. Especially when it's clear that the person you're disagreeing with has had the benefit of doing so.

I don't care about any of the Tories, tbh she didn't have to trigger article 50 when she did.

The Labour Party doesn't give a stuff about women, OP. Google Rosie Duffield. Ask yourself why they are all so pro Self ID at all costs. (I read all, as costs to women).

But yes poor old Terry May was treated badly. Her Brexit deal was better than Boris's. Patriarchy at its finest.

She did a pretty good job of destroying the police.

I can't stand her.

@MrsJuliaGulia

The Labour Party doesn't give a stuff about women, OP. Google Rosie Duffield. Ask yourself why they are all so pro Self ID at all costs. (I read all, as costs to women).

But yes poor old Terry May was treated badly. Her Brexit deal was better than Boris's. Patriarchy at its finest.

None of them do.

Look at the way women are expected to beg for money if they've had a third child following domestic abuse/rape.

Look at how, before the few services got co-opted into a diferent ideology, rape support services were defunded. How Universal Credit is paid only to one person, giving abusive men a means of getting all the income, even that which was originally paid to women precisely because of the possibility of men drinking the benefits paid for children. How if somebody wanted to work, they could only keep £30 a week of it before losing it penny for penny (and the same with maintenance until a few years ago - get a few pounds a week, lose all housing benefit and council tax benefit). Benefit sanctions applied to men meaning the woman and children have nothing, not even housing benefit, if he fails to comply with the requirements.

Changing education policies back to just exams to favour boys because girls did too well at continuous assessment.

May was shit at the job. She wasn't too grand at Merton council either - as the girls abused under her watch could testify. But they were only girls, why should she worry about that?

@iamtopazmortmain

I am no fan of hers, but she was handed a shitstorm that was impossible for anyone to deal with successfully.

She was just a place marker whilst Boris made his mind up whether or not the prestige of being PM was worth some effort. He decided it was and has made very little effort to do anything at all ever since he was elected.

So, yes I do feel sorry for her.

She wasn't handed it. She wanted it. She chose to take it knowing precisely how toxic dealing with brexit would be.