Theresa May

It was a nice speech. Nothing more. Considerng her party in which she was in the cabinet, had been in power 6 years and all that she mentioned has not been done!

So the UK's only world leading hi-tech company is being sold off for £24bn.

Hermann Hauser just tweeted "ARM is the proudest achievement of my life. The proposed sale to SoftBank is a sad day for me and for technology in Britain." The irony is that May & Hammond are quickly saying the sale to Japan's SoftBank is a great thing... despite May's policy speech a week ago in which, according to Robert Peston, she "was completely unambiguous that she opposed foreign companies buying our strategically important businesses."

And so instead of protecting British long-term R&D interests, we are gladly allowing key companies to be sold off in order to try and attract foreign investment when many indicators show the Brexit vote has caused foreign investment being frozen. So much for supporting British-grown companies. Did you know that out of the world's top 50 R&D companies, 17 are EU-based, but only two of those are UK companies? (Astrazenica and GSK). Our Big R&D sector is vulnerable and it is now being hollowed out further.

Incidentally, Hermann Hauser tweeted the following on June 24th and 25th: "Brexit: Britain's worst own goal in history." and "An innumerate clown has wrecked a country ‪#‎Brexit‬"

I guess the jobs will stay though Tegan as ARM is located near Cambridge.

And it isn't made of chocolate....

Hmm until there is a change in Japanese company policy.

Just a small point...AstraZeneca is British/Swedish.

There are no guarantees about the ARM jobs, Jess. It will almost certainly stay where it is for the moment, because of its location in 'silicon fen', but the whole of the Cambridge science/tech world is jittery about its future without EU funding and BREXIT. ARM doesn't manufacture anything. It's all about people and ideas, so could be moved at a moments notice, if another area provided the right environment.

Back to TM. Did anyone see her on her first PMQs, awesome. She annihilated Corbyn. He was his usual pathetic self.

Yes petra, I thought she handled herself with confidence. I was impressed. Completely irrelevant I know, but I thought the suit she wore was perfect.

I had hoped she would have moved away from the Cameron style with the rehearsed personal comments , pity .

Anniebach Go back a few weeks and I would have agreed with you. But now, I dislike the man so much for what he is doing to the Labour Party that anyone who gives him a good grubbing is ok in my book. I hope she destroys him at every opportunity.

Can't agree Petra, and you may be aware of how little regard I now have for him , even remembering how he watched that female MP reduced to tears and remained silent - still gets to me - I would like PMQ to be just that , ask the PM a question and receive an answer not a joke . I think no matter who now, this is the way of it

Your a more forgiving person than me Anniebach

I agree Anniebach. I felt distinctly uncomfortable seeing another human being being treated with such contempt and, like you, I do not have much time for him as leader. You can make hard hitting comments on policy and situations but you don't have to take away a person's dignity so publicly. I just feel that he should really have considered all aspects of this job before he accepted it and stepped away while he still could. I would have more personal respect for him if he had said a month in "this isn't me - I'm happy on the back bench and tending my allotment. Choose someone else who relishes this." But he didn't. I just hope enough people vote to release him from his misery and I do wonder who is pulling his strings to keep him there because he looks more and more ill at ease.

So the world is heating to a dangerous level, and climate change is causing real concerns. One small example of this heating up is the 70% drop of our cuckoos caused by heating and arid conditions in Spain. The cuckoos are dying on their long journey because of hunger.

One of the first intelligent things May did was to get rid of the climate change department, and appointment " is climate change real?" Leadsom. Not to worry, I am sure rampant free market forces will do everything to prevent the world's destruction.

PMQ's were ever thus...It was Corbyn who wanted to change it ( because he wasn't good at it.)

Perhaps other birds will be glad though?

A cuckoo in the nest must be hard work.

I take that to be a facetious question rose?

POGS I was neither agreeing or disagreeing with anything in that piece - simply posted it as thought other people MAY have found it interesting.

I made no comment either way.

Why oh why did they have to say - there was a touch of thatcher in her at PMQ

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Although I still think TM the least bad of the options for PM I have to say she went down in my estimation when I watched her PM questions. She looked and sounded very thatcheresque even to the point of lowering her voice, but her performance, full of heavy handed scripted insults to all the opposition speakers was just like Cameron - snarling, bullying "my party's bigger than your party"- pure flashman

I agree varian. It was the first time I had seen her sneer that way and it was not a good look. I hope that's the last time she feels it necessary to act like one of the boys at PMQs. I want to believe she's better than that.

She reminds me of Gordon Brown [but in a bad way]. He did this thing where he paused part way through a sentence and she does the same#i'mnotexplainingthisverywellami?

Not good was it? I think if you look at her normal body movements that she is a very buttoned up personality, and she will struggle to relax. She chose her defence as attack in her first PMQs. It would have been much more convincing if she'd simply spoken with calm authority, ignored what is going on in the Labour Party as an irrelevance.

Gordon Brown had a specific neurological cause for his having to take breaths at odd moments while speaking. I think it was a result of the head injury he received which also cost him his eye. The pauses during sentences wasn't deliberate.
I reckon May had to appear tough on her first outing at PMQ. Its an awful career. Can't understand why anyone would want to do it.