A stronger mandate to act robustly! That is meaningless and you know it.
When leaders appeal to the people on the bases of strength rather than policy, when they ask for a mandate to circumvent one of the three pillars of our democratic system, the legislature, and all this from a leader who has already shown disdain for the third pillar, the judiciary, and this perpetrated with the fourth estate either neutered or in the hands of multi millionaires looking for favours (Fox wants Sky for £11.7bn, presently in stasis over "public interest" )......Ask yourself is this the sign of a healthy democracy? Would you accept this if you were on the other side of the argument? Ask yourself where a road like this leads.
What May is saying is she can't do whatever it is she wants to do, without dismantling our system of government and very possibly dismantling the United Kingdom.
A stronger mandate to act robustly is not the rhetoric of democracy, it is the rhetoric of authoritarianism.