Government Watch - 2

Constant references to the "British Dream". What is the British Dream?
Owning a home?
Or going to food banks?
Zero hours contracts?
Secure jobs with pensions?
British Empire?
Or Brexit?
Could mean anything.......
or be a totally meaningless sound bite .....

How many letters fell off in the end?-I saw 3.

It was pure comedy.

And the letters on the slogan behind her "building a country that works for everyone" slowly fell off. F was the first to fall off!

There were standing ovations at the end and at odd points when she paused for breath between coughing fits. Also a lot of concerned and aghast faces, from her cabinet.
Poor Theresa.
More free schools? Did I hear a hundred new Free schools a year? Does anyone think they work?

maize she had as you would expect a standing ovation, but it was a sympathy vote.

The content of her speech was completely devoid of anything new, except those ideas put forward by Labour.

So do you remember that Marxist policy of fuel price cap argued for by Labour?- May pinched that
Organ donation change -a labour policy- My pinched that.
Student fees change -which is so tepid it is hardly worth the paper it s printed on- forced on May by Labour
Housing needs recognised but a build of 25k over 5years when 2+million are homeless is pathetic.

Nothing else that springs to mind.

It will not save her

Disaster of a speech. Can she survive?

Did her speech have the tory faithful leaping up to give her a standing ovation? (Sorry, I rely on reports, can't bear to watch..)

Thought they'd already promised to do something about energy prices? But hadn't.

I wondere who gave the chap the security pass? Johnson?

This is a total car crash,

Security a disaster
Speech content a disaster
Deliverance a disaster

But dogged Maybot is programmed to continue.

I am beginning to feel sorry for her.

This speech is a disaster absolutely nothing new just a repeat of past speeches -a complete hour wasted.

Lots of little tinkering but an absolute dearth of anything substantial.

History lesson looked through the prism of Tory policies. O

Just watching Mays speech and waiting for the engine of ideas.

If you agree with what May is offering, vote Labour. It is their policies she is stealing, and they have it properly costed.

Massive U-turn from Thatcher.

What happened to Home owning democracy? Ditched along with anything else that might lose them votes.

Where is the money coming from. Since the election May has spent billion upon billion both in actuality- DUP and in her rhetoric.

They were unable to cost their manifesto -incompetence?-and continue along the same road -wonder what the budget will be like ?

Mrs May is expected to announce plans for a significant expansion in council housing - including measures to make it easier for authorities to get land.

I do hope this isn't the usual drop in the ocean and that they aren't sold off to those with masses of capital.

Not forgetting the Tories talking of JC taking us back to the 1970s, pretending it wasn't Ted Heath who presided over the 3-day week and the oil crisis.
It would be nice if we could undo all the damage done by Thatcher's version of capitalism from 1979 onwards, but at least we have a hope of making a start with Corbyn

It's lucky all the plane companies are going bust, then, otherwise we'd be queuing up for cheap flights to Libya.

Good to know once we’ve have cleared all those rotting bodies out of the way then Libya can then pursue the Capitalistt ideal.

Vote for Boris = a vote for crassness and insensitivity.

Oh, well said, GracesGran.
She's not going to complain about it though, because she doesn't notice.

It's nearly as bad as Hunt praising the nurses, even asking for a round of applause for them, then saying he's going to have an app for them so their bosses can ask them to work longer for less pay. He didn't understand, either.

The Bill of Rights is an Act of the Parliament of England that deals with constitutional matters and sets out certain basic civil rights. ... It sets out certain rights of individuals including the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment ...

Surely what the Tory party are doing to TM comes under this heading?

According to Michael Gove, Tories are friends of the earth, as well. I'd better tear up my card and stop my direct debit, then.

evolvepolitics.com/the-green-partys-reaction-to-michael-goves-absurd-tory-environment-claim-is-absolutely-priceless/

Jeremy Hunt didn't tell people about this, either, when he was telling everyone how well the NHS was doing in Tory hands.

evolvepolitics.com/tories-just-handed-55m-nhs-contract-tax-haven-firm-never-paid-penny-corp-tax/

Quite.