Theresa May

[Fame Monster]

I sometimes feel a bit sorry for her. Talk about "The Impossible Job". No person alive in Britain could deliver the Brexit bastard baby. However she lost her chance of any kind of legacy last week when she came back from Salzburg. She should have resigned on the spot and told the entire country that Brexit was unworkable and a disaster for the country, and that the country should, in her view from the frontline, think again. History could well have elevated her to a brave visionary. As it is she will go down as the Graham Taylor of PMs: "Tell your mate he's got me the sack".

Yeah that’s the way to win the support of the majority of the people in this country, refusing to carry out their stated request.

She has spectacularly failed in her negotiations with the EU. Taking the wrong tone at the most inopportune moment on a consistent basis, she has completely misunderstood the politics of the situation. She also lacked a heavy hitting no 2 that could have taken charge of the Brexit delivery programme from the start, martialling what needed doing into work streams and sitting on top of them to ensure progress. When I try hard, on a personal basis, I can feel some compassion for her as she has an impossible job delivering something which is tantamount to self harm. I find absolutely nothing to admire though as instead of engaging with the country with facts, and truths, even where they are unpalatable, she has limped along with platitudes and meaningless soundbites while ignoring the grave misgivings many of us still have regarding the conduct of the initial referendum. That should have been tackled head on rather than swept under the carpet if she had any interest in trying to bring the different sides together.
History will not be kind.
As a centralist who has voted on both sides in the past, Theresa and her cohorts have lost my vote for the foreseeable future.

She’s come up with a plan that is almost as good, if not better than being in the EU, for this country while respecting the result of the referendum. As long as you’re not a fascist or someone living in cloud cuckoo land who thinks we should have a best of 3 referenda, it’s difficult to think of a better starting point for negotiations. The reason Brussels won’t support it is because the plan is almost too good and risks other countries leaving the EU. Banging on about the last referendum isn’t gonna get this country anywhere even if she probably agrees (as a moderate remainer) that the conduct of both campaigns was occasionally shameful.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Yeah that’s the way to win the support of the majority of the people in this country, refusing to carry out their stated request.



She’s come up with a plan that is almost as good, if not better than being in the EU, for this country while respecting the result of the referendum. As long as you’re not a fascist or someone living in cloud cuckoo land who thinks we should have a best of 3 referenda, it’s difficult to think of a better starting point for negotiations. The reason Brussels won’t support it is because the plan is almost too good and risks other countries leaving the EU. Banging on about the last referendum isn’t gonna get this country anywhere even if she probably agrees (as a moderate remainer) that the conduct of both campaigns was occasionally shameful.

Ladies and Gentleman, please be upstanding for the only man in Europe who likes the Chequers Plan.

"The reason Brussels won't support it is because it is almost too good".

 

[Fame Monster]

People are that brainwashed they would just see it as a chance to get someone more pro brexit in as prime minister.

Which is exactly what would happen.

Ladies and Gentleman, please be upstanding for the only man in Europe who likes the Chequers Plan.

"The reason Brussels won't support it is because it is almost too good".

It’s unpopular but so is every single other plan that can theoretically be put forward. This is probably the most popular, unpopular plan of them all. It has the support of the Cabinet and pisses off the idealists on the right and the fascists on the left in equal measure. But let me tell you, if you think the Chequers plan is unpopular, go outside of Didsbury and find out how popular your ‘Congo plan’ of overturning democratic results is and I think you’ll be in for a surprise.

 

[Saddleworth2]

And yet they're still ahead in the polls

Maybe. Not sure what that tells us about us as an electorate. When this shambles can actually still lead!

 

[oldtimerdiscopants]

I know it's a bit tongue in cheek but sometimes a picture can in one instant put a view across that a hundred paragraphs can't.

 

[Chippy_boy]

Her words have no meaning.

Her meaning has no words.

 

[Damocles]

She’s come up with a plan that is almost as good, if not better than being in the EU, for this country while respecting the result of the referendum.

Well, yeah. That's true.

But that's not really difficult. I could come up with a plan that's better than being in the EU, such as the EU all paying us 10 billion a year.

It's the acceptability of the plan where the skill resides

 

[Damocles]

Her meaning has no words.

No words have her meaning.

 

[Chippy_boy]

No words have her meaning.

Her moaning has no weirds?

 

[Saddleworth2]

Yeah that’s the way to win the support of the majority of the people in this country, refusing to carry out their stated request.



She’s come up with a plan that is almost as good, if not better than being in the EU, for this country while respecting the result of the referendum. As long as you’re not a fascist or someone living in cloud cuckoo land who thinks we should have a best of 3 referenda, it’s difficult to think of a better starting point for negotiations. The reason Brussels won’t support it is because the plan is almost too good and risks other countries leaving the EU. Banging on about the last referendum isn’t gonna get this country anywhere even if she probably agrees (as a moderate remainer) that the conduct of both campaigns was occasionally shameful.

You will never sell being outside the EU is better than inside to me i’m afraid and that doesn’t make me fascist or cloud cuckoo. The chequers plan was never going to be accepted as it breaches EU principles, something she will have known from the start. Criminal activity in the referendum is easier to ignore when you get the result you wanted I find.