Theresa May

May admires a woman who asked to be wrapped in the Communist flag when she was buried, and who had an affair with Trotsky?

Maybe it was the ghost of Frida Kahlo who caused all the mayhem during her speech.

The Beeb wants a Leadership challenge, something to fill 24 hours rolling news

Of course thy do. They are probably to blame for the productivity going down too.

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Are we supposed to be mind readers now AB?

Maybe she simply admired the artist.

May doesn't understand about communism. If she did, she wouldn't have been wearing that bracelet.

That’s true Anniebach rolling news has a lot to answer for.

The Beeb wants a Leadership challenge, something to fill 24 hours rolling news

Gove seems to live a Little world of his own quite extraordinary comments like “every voter is behind May” and “ TM is behind me in stopping the ivory trade” when talking about Mays chances of staying.

The BBC just gave a little biography of May during the past 6 months- almost writing her off -odd

I am looking at Marxism through my views and experiences, the young are more knowledgable of it from , from , from?

Grant Shapps is a snake with many skins. He was accused (rightly) of running a business under a different name, Michael Green I think, denied it on BBC, threatened to sue a constituent who outed him on FB, then a month later, admitted that he had been this other person. He is a liar, a cheat and a thoroughly nasty bit of work. As is Boris who denied that he had tried to force his mistress to have an abortion, then admitted that yes, it was the truth and was suspended from the cabinet ( I believe) for his lies. I use the term lies deliberately, no euphemistic use of 'misunderstandings' or 'confusion', they are bloody liars and should not be allowed cabinet positions which insigate changes which impact everyone's lives. In the face of these two reptiles, TM looks a good choice, and if my assessment of her character and morals is correct, I would think she finds it hard to be in the same room as them, I would.

That is not true Annie. As a country we elect an MP and the number of MPs will tell us which party has been elected. The vast majority of people are not members of those parties so have no influence whatsoever in the election of the leader who becomes the PM.

More to the point you corrected someone in the first instance with incorrect information. Sorry to whoever it was would be nice.

I have to agree with Trisher about young people knowing about Marxism. I would add that we can see from ABs remarks that she is not looking at Marxism per se but her view and interpretation of it.

Where experience is concerned it isn't always a good thing. Experience can be limiting; it implies stale ideas, narrow vision and tired habits of thought. A lack of experience can promise energy and originality, the ability to see new avenues where more experienced minds see dead ends. I think the two ends of our age scale have as much, but different things, to offer, so never appreciate someone talking down the young and elevating the older generations wisdom well above anything the majority of us have earned.

No, we do not elect a party, we choose to join a party and as a member we can choose which candidate to vote for as leader . The voter then chooses who they want as PM by voting for the party he/she leads, come a general election.

I am quite sure the majority who are members of this forum know what they are talking about when they speak of Marxism.

I am quite sure they don't!

We don't elect a PM, we elect a leader of the party we belong to.
I think when you decide to correct another GNetter AB you should be careful you then actually get it right.

We do not elect a PM - correct; but the rest isn't.
We elect a party and they elect a leader. We actually have no choice of PM even if it appears that we do because the party we are voting for has a current leader. That is why in the last election, the Tories seemed to behave with scandalous disregard to our system when they tried to foist some sort of President on us.

There are actually a lot of young people who understand marxism, communism and socialism far better than some of the posters on this thread who seem to confuse all three. There are also some young revolutionary communists around. I may not agree with their politics but I certainly admire their idealism, and their belief that there should be better chances for all, rather than the 'Me first, there is no such thing as society' which is the legacy of the Thatcher years.
As for Mrs May well you have to laugh don't you? And no I don't feel sorry for her-If you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen.

I was talking about some posters on here who regularly accuse people of being Marxist.

Not sure if you meant me or someone else.

Not you whitewave, sorry if it came across that way. I’m here there and everywhere today, so posted in a rush.

And re Marxism, to those posters who think some of us feel insulted when the term is directed at us, well it doesn’t bother me, I certainly don’t get upset but it’s simply inaccurate. I’m not a Marxist, that’s all. Each to their own.

I have always said I cannot support Corbyn because of his militant history, he and McDonald do follow Marxist views.

I am of the centre left of the party, never had a problem with being called a Blairite , I supported Gordon Brown.

Yet those who praise Corbyn consider being classed a Marxist or militant supporter an insult.

Puzzling, how can support be given to a leader but not to his politics

Why is it an issue to mention ' Marxism' ?

John McDonnell has said ' I am a Marxist'.

It follows if John McDonnell became Chancellor of the Exchequer do you think he will suddenly become a Capitalist?

I have asked before:-

If you believe/support Corbyn and McDonnell who blatantly follow Marxist views why do you find it upsetting to be aligned with Marxism? It's not as though they have hidden their politics for over 30 years is it.

I find it interesting to note who ' the players ' are in most scenarios.

Momentum for Labour and the likes of Grant Schnapps, Ed Vazey and who cannot fail to note George Osborne for the Tories.

The latter being ex Conservative MP's who are strong Remainers, lost their jobs and showing their disloyalty to the party.

Politics is a funny old game .

I have only said ‘Marxist’ of Corbyn ( and McDonnell) and not of posters on this thread whitewave perhaps you should read posts more clearly.
Do you think that Hammond doesn’t understand what Marxist means, and lots of other people within politics who describe Corbyn’s ideas in that way, or do you think it’s only me that has said it??
I find your ‘MPs coming to heel’ chilling, the sort of thing Momentum say of moderate Labour MP’s.

Theresa May is the best person for the job of PM by miles .The fact that she carried on through the speech just goes to show how strong she is. After coping with that, Brexit will be a pushover.

Good on yer TM.

The young have not lived through a time of union controlled government . Just think how they supported the Libs because of tuition fee promises. The same will happen with a Corbyn changing rainbow government and it is the teenagers who will be paying back the billions borrowed by Corbyn.

As the parties are now, disaster which ever wins the next election.

Not at all simplistic, fact - the strikes through the seventies and a far left party fighting the 1983 election

nightowl I was talking about some posters on here who regularly accuse people of being Marxist.

Not sure if you meant me or someone else