Theresa May

I've quite enjoyed all the political confloptions and clusterfuck of the last few weeks. It has made me think very deeply about what I believe in. It has made me question a lot of things. Good mental exercise. And it has made the news more interesting.

I agree it has been interesting but enjoyed would probably be the last word I'd use to describe it .

I will be happy if she gets started quickly on getting us out of the EU. It will take a while, I expect, but it needs to be done before an election and before the EU implodes due to currency issues and unrest. I really don't think it will be too long before we see Andrea Leadsom taking a bigger role in the party. She may be inexperienced but a huge number of party members and general public were behind her. Not happy with May's record as home sec and her support for Sharia law probably.

Where exactly is this quote that TM 'supports Sharia law'?

Good Luck to ms TM as P M. A job thats
fraught with responsibilty and danger at every turn. A very brave lady to take it on
IMHO.

Here, Here! A brave lady indeed. Same goes for Angela Eagle particularly as she is up against someone who either believes he is a latter day messiah, or has lost all sense of reality! I would never vote for her or her party, but I certainly admire her courage and wish her well.

The Cameron's have got the removal men in in Downing Street.
I'm sure we all remember the look on his face the day he and Sam walked in (after the delay and the forming of a coalition).
What a disaster he has been.
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It would be nice to think May is going to be an improvement but no reason to believe she will be. He inherited a debt, from the banking crisis and failed to rise to the challenge. She is inheriting an even bigger debt and a bigger crisis as well.

I think she would do well to consider a Brexit department that is a coalition of all parties. This would serve to take the country with her and possibly avoid anyone scuppering plans and negotiations.

Here, for what it is worth, is my cabinet suggestions:

Andrea Leadsom or Michael Gove: to Welsh Office so that they can explain to the impoverished areas who voted Brexit, just why it was a silly idea, and no, the rest of the country wont pick up the bill to replace all the EU subsidies and grants that they have effectively turned down.

Boris Johnson: something irrelevant but time consuming.
John Whittingale: Chief Whip ( sorry, couldnt resist)
Priti Patel: Trade and Industry ( good brain, just needs to be kept away from anything involving touchy feely empathy and human contact)
Wilderness: Ian Duncan Smith, complete and utter bastard doesnt deserve anything.
Jacob Rees Mogg: member for the 17th century, give him something nice in culture,heritage etc.
Education: give it to anyone who has been a teacher or at least has children.
Health: that nice woman mp who is a GP and changed her mind at the last moment to remain.

I am sure I will think of more, as we all will. I am not a Tory voter, but wish Mrs May well and think she is probably the best of the lot.

Hey, just spotted Tim Farron on the lunchtime news! He's surfaced at last - dare I start to hope??

I think Michael Gove aka The Poisoned Dwarf shouls be consigned to outer darkness

grammargran..... Do you hope he will go back down into the hole again?
Neversaydie..... Whoa! Have you been watching The Exorcist?

Lets see how she gets on before passing opinions

Just in case anyone has forgotten what Margaret Thatcher said when she walked into Downing Street.
Where there is discord, may we bring harmony.
Where there is error, may we bring truth.
Where there is doubt, may we bring ltruth.
And where there is despair, may we bring hope.
Little did we know what was coming.

thatbags am with you on that ( your last post) when things are shaken up, all sorts of things fall out.

petra..... She had a nice line in handbags though ( you gotta admit!)

I will never forget Thatchers words that day #ingrainedinmysoul...

No, rosesarered I'm just hoping that he's been down in that hole with some sensible people and are choosing their moment to bring some sanity into all this summer madness. Actually, I've been shut off from any communication for two or three hours (no, I haven't been having a little zizz, merely tussling with the computer trying to upload some photographs). Have I missed anything new? Things move so fast - has the Queen abdicated? She might as well, everyone else has left ........

How can Jeremy Hunt eulogise on tv about Camerons time in office after he's left us in such a mess? Or, perhaps he was the only one prepared to do so .

He's hoping for a cabinet post. Such people are called " bag carriers" in Italy, here we call them *rselickers".

love the suggestions as to where to place some of the Conservative MP's. Heard that Teflon Tessie and Georgie Porgie do not get on, so be interesting to see what she does with him. She will have to include some right wing Tories in her cabinet, in order to get their allegiance. Reckon Ledsome was a sacrificial lamb to get rid of Gove in the race to be PM. But then I didn't like her anyway! What will she do with Gove? Johnson? She can't leave them in the political wilderness - 'keep your enemies close' etc.
We shall know soon!

You are too kind GiliT
If there was any justice this would be their fate for the next ten years or so:
Boris Johnson - a non stop round of "I'm a Celebrity" and various cheap copies thereof. Regular demands that he eat land-based invertebrates. No hair products allowed on desert islands/jungle. Other contestants to be women who do not think he is amusing and men who cannot understand his jokes in the first place.
Michael Gove - teaching in an academy that is about to be placed in special measures as soon as OFSTED gets round to visiting them. Staff have long memories and are therefore not at all helpful. Timetable from hell.
Jeremy Hunt - cleaning toilets in an NHS hospital during an intractable outbreak of Noro virus , working to the shift patterns of a junior hospital doctor under new contract.
Prati Patel - zero hours contracts in two low-cost shops. In an area where there is a high proportion of UKIP voters and other grumpy customers.
IDS - Full time carer for a partner with dementia. Only one bedroom. On benefits. In hard-to-heat accommodation.
Osborne - working as a long-term temp (because the council don't offer permanent jobs any more) in the housing department of a local authority, in one of the less affluent areas of the UK. The other staff hate him (of course they do!) so they give him all the callers who are complaining that they can't have a council house because of the immigrants.
Amber Rudd - aid worker in Bangladesh during flood season.

Jacob Rees Mogg: member for the 17th century, give him something nice in culture,heritage etc

Education: give it to anyone who has been a teacher or at least has children.
Oh no, not That Woman again! I am a Mother!

the last was a quote, should have used " "
failed my SATS

has the Queen abdicated? She might as well, everyone else has left ........
They've left her to put all the lights out Grammargran

Boris No hair products allowed on desert islands/jungle
Oh! that rumour about L'Oreal offering him a contract was just a whopper then? I thought they said it was because he was worth it or some such rubbish. Another lie!!