Theresa May

eleothan surely that isn't true

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story

It was in The I on 23 July:

"Theresa May will reportedly replace some of the artwork hanging in Downing Street with framed quotations of the speech she made upon becoming Prime Minister.

"Ms May's aides are preparing to take down some of the paintings from the Government Art Collection and put up framed quotes from her mission statement, when she pledged to stand up against "the privileged few" and fight "burning injustice"."

I think her commitment to standing up against the privileged few and fighting burning injustice might have been a little closer to achieving if she hadn't voted for most of the things that in fact perpetuated privilege and injustice.

Maybe she needs to be reminded every day. A good idea to remind her of her socialist principles! Thatcher definitely forgot about the harmony.

Sounds like a piss-take Eloethan. She has shown no signs of being concerned about the poor and dispossessed up to now.
And in here speech I did note that her notion of the struggling classes were people with mortgages who were worried about getting their children into good schools. Which sounds like the reasonably affluent middle classes to me. Not people worrying about the drug dealer on the corner talking to their kids, the lack of money to get a bus to the hospital or the indignity of queuing at the food bank.

I have can't remember a PM who gave so many mixed messages as May. It may be because she hasn't had time to decide exactly the way her government is heading.

Or it's to deflect the anger of the left, make her look like she is everyone's saviour. Until....

This is interesting, particularly the final paragraph.

fullfact.org/law/how-much-does-prime-minister-get-paid/

Well done, Theresa May.

She has agreed that we will keep our promise to spend 0.7% of our income on aid.

www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/theresa-may-ukaid-07-national-income-global-goals/

I'm pleased that she's put a temporary halt on Hinkley point. This project really does need looking at again.

I agree. The whole saga seems a bit strange though. More than meets the eye?!

I get so annoyed when governments bandy about these eye watering amounts of money and not consider alternatives.
I get annoyed that there isn't a law to state that all new built houses aren't insulted to a high level. The same with recycled water through our toilets etc etc. It's all there but all they think about is new power stations.
I would go further and say that all new builds have solar panels. The technology is here now with battery life and inverters that we wouldn't need to go without.
And why do we have to have hot water in our washing machines. There's no need for it.
I'd better stop now or this could go on and on.

Well Jess I know for sure that some of these 'reasonably affluent' (whatever that might actually mean) 'middle classes' (ditto) have actually been hit pretty hard and are the ones struggling. You might mock their efforts to pay their mortgages, just because they aren't clogging up the social housing that so many think is their entitlement and claiming benefits.

But when teachers (reasonably affluent middle class?) are struggling to survive, pay their mortgage and raise a family, then May is right to try to give them back something without being accused of 'piss taking' but I see all your pity is reserved for the 'poor and dispossessed'.

Stuff and nonsense.

Not people worrying about the drug dealer on the corner talking to their kids,
I don't think that the drug dealers just target the poor and dispossessed.

Petra @ 14.51 couldn't agree more.We have solar panels,and our in laws installed theirs very early on when the feed in tariff rate was much higher.But the people who can afford to install panels aren't the ones in real fuel poverty.All the smaller initiatives they could implement in affordable housing and across the construction industry,and make them mandatory.Our daughter recently moved into a new build house and the first thing we said is why haven't they all got solar panels? It's not rocket science, or nuclear science for that matter!

Agree totally Anya with your last post.In fact there are likely to be many more families struggling and juggling the bills that do have incomes coming in ( not on benefits) but Socialists do like the term dispossessed, it fits the Les Miserables outlook better.

Depends where you are standing Anya and what part of the country. My point (as I'm sure you know) is that she did not cover the problems of the poorest sector of society. The ones that are "clogging up social housing" being the luckier ones these days. Does not mean I don't empathise with the problems of all kinds of people - just that her examples are not going to speak to those who are struggling at the bottom. Or young people who don't even dream of having mortgages.
Just more fuzzy "hard working families" rhetoric.

Waherwoman they don't have solar panels because successive governments have been energetically lobbied by the construction industry, who never want to do anything that puts a penny more onto the cost of building houses.

Surely solar panels on new build affordable housing would make them less affordable. And the panels take many years to pay for themselves.

I'm pretty sure there are strict building regs re insulation on new builds already.

I think we need Hinkley Point.

Putting Hinkley Point on hold has made her look like a silly dithering female. I hope she isn't.

We could not have the panels under any scheme, to old, not enough time left to pay for them.

I like the idea of having May here and Trump over their, special relationship or what.

In my opinion Hinkley Point was a bad deal, if they want to save it they should put the price up.

Silly dithering female?!!!!! so females tend to be silly and dithering?! What a sexist old fashioned attitude!! I think men can and are equally silly and dithering, our late PM being one in question! Much more likely that there is a perceived problem conveniently overlooked or hoped for the best by the previous government! Mrs May is one sharp lady, nothing silly or dithering about her, men? maybe! her? never!

I was waiting for that.

I think men can also be silly and dithering. But Theresa is a female. So... ?