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The Last Days of Mrs May?

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trisher Wed 12-Sept-18 11:42:36

So 50 MPs met to discuss getting rid of her, should we be counting the days? Or will she simply stay because there's no other suitable candidate and no one wants a poisoned chalice?

OldMeg Sun 23-Sept-18 13:38:58

Anyway one does read the newspapers (The Times and the Guardian) and one also gets one’s news from other sources.

So this one is declaring the DM, The Express and The Sun to be enthusistically Right Wing. I doubt the DM has shifted its political stance since its support of Hitler.

OldMeg Sun 23-Sept-18 13:34:31

You really need to ask that AB?

Anniebach Sun 23-Sept-18 13:31:10

If one doesn’t read newspapers how can one declare with confidence the newspapers are right wing ?

Grandad1943 Sun 23-Sept-18 12:33:39

It was a great pity that Day6 placed so much effort in his above post with a personal attack on me, when he could have addressed the real points I put forward in my post @ 16:39 yesterday.

Incidentally Day6, I like many millions these days I do not read any newspapers. I get all my news information from ether Sky News, BBC News or Google News links, all via my Phone.

GillT57 Sun 23-Sept-18 11:56:17

Day6 You really do need to make your mind up, not all Guardian readers are 'lefties' and not all remainers are lefties either, whatever that means. I certainly would not count John Major, Nicholas Soames, Kenneth Clark or Anna Soubray as such, what a silly comment. I occasionally wonder how we have got to such a mess in this country, and then when I read ill-informed comments made on the basis of rubbish and lies printed by papers like the Daily Express I understand how it happened. I have no objection to considered debate, but people basing their votes on this publication makes me despair.

Diana54 Sat 22-Sept-18 20:00:54

"Remainers have been prophets of doom from the outset. Perhaps they'd rather cling like limpets to the wreckage? A marriage at any cost?"

And

Leavers have been telling all sorts of half truths about the future out of the EU, Canada plus plus plus, much vaunted but never attainable, Brexiteers wanted out at any price so that they can make a great deal on money in the ensuing chaos and probably are already.
Voters swallowed it hook line and sinker.

Marriage breakups, there is always a looser, often both loose a great deal and I will come back with lots of examples if that is disputed, the only winners are the lawyers.

No deal will mean a border in Ireland against the Good Friday agreement and I predict the Unionists will change sides rather than have a border

"We" have not rejected the four freedoms, the Tory party extremeists have conned the country, it was all going to be so easy. Remember Cameron wanted remain and he had by far the majority of the party with him.

Jalima1108 Sat 22-Sept-18 19:28:27

If half her cabinet members told her it wouldn’t work, I assume the other half said it would work.
smile

cup half full or cup half empty scenario?

Jalima1108 Sat 22-Sept-18 19:27:34

specki4eyes TM is not asking for the EU to treat her with respect, (although they should, of course treat her position as PM of the UK with respect) but the UK as whole and to respect the decision of the referendum, even if some of us did not agree with it.

Jalima1108 Sat 22-Sept-18 19:24:47

How can you as Brits be against political cartoons.
Well, some (most?) of us love them.
DH always points them out to me and we have some brilliant cartoonists in this country.

And we mustn't forget Spitting Image.
And our wonderful impressionists.

Thank goodness we live in a country which can enjoy these things.

MargaretX Sat 22-Sept-18 19:07:47

How can you as Brits be against political cartoons. We have wonderful cartoons about Brexit here in Germany and France and as to cherries - picking out the cherries is saying in European speech. It means what it says that a child faced with a pudding with cherries in it picks the cherries out. As Britian is not famous for cherries like we on the continent are it has no meaning.
It was a joke!!
By the way Greece is now on the way to recovery. And Mr Tusk is used to a more down to earth woman politician in Fr Merkel. She would never go to a microphone and moan about not being treated with respect.After all she is going to cost us all millions before she is finished.

Day6 Sat 22-Sept-18 19:04:09

They really dont want to loose the UK but better to let us go than compromise the core values.

We have rejected the EU's 'core values' and 'four freedoms' Diana54 The member states can cling to them all they like - although you must be aware there is lots of disquiet in many member states regarding EU membership? The core values (and BILLIONS we have to pay in membership to have to live by them) do not appeal to the UK, hence Brexit.

It's exactly the same situation faced by families and businesses, if someone is rocking the boat let them go and do their own thing. Some make a great success of separation most don't.

What a strange generalisation.

For most, breaking away from a bad relationship (work or personal) is a positive step and I'd say the majority are better for it and have no regrets.

Remainers have been prophets of doom from the outset. Perhaps they'd rather cling like limpets to the wreckage? A marriage at any cost?

Day6 Sat 22-Sept-18 18:40:53

Oh dear Grandad. So predictable. I appreciate that you lap up Guardian, and pro Labour articles in other rags with a left wing bias, but please do try to be a bit more original in your slurs. If the best you can up with is a mention of the DM, then please realise it's a very old hackneyed remark lacking in originality and bite. It's a very predictable rejoinder. A bit like your views perhaps?

Lots and lots of people (millions I dare say) read the 'trash' newspapers you so deplore.

People are entitled to hold views which differ from yours. You deplore them because they are not left wing. In your book if you are not left wing you are right wing and 'bad'. Time to wake up and appreciate that many, many fair, bright and pleasant people of all political persuasions do not relish the idea of living with Corbyn's socialism or a Brussels stranglehold. It seems hard for you to grasp. If throwing in self-righteous and disparaging remarks regarding the Daily Mail (which no one mentioned but you) is your predictable riposte against those who don't share your views, fair enough, but we could start playing Gransnet Bingo with it. grin

Diana54 Sat 22-Sept-18 18:07:00

"The U.K. Would not pay the 40bn if we left without a deal"

Oh I rather think we would because if we didn't honour our obligations negotiations would be very difficult, it would simply be added to the tariffs levied, we simply can't afford not to.
At the end of the day agreement would be made to pay it over 10 yrs so in EU terms it isn't any great problem and by then the Brexiteers say we will be in clover anyway. If we do leave the last thing we need is for negotiations to be held in a hostile atmosphere, good faith must be maintained.

Get the idea of equal negotiations right out of your mind, they are 27 we are 1. Although we represent maybe 15% of the EU economy ( someone will correct me I'm sure) that is 6 to 1 we do not have any strong position we are deal takers not deal makers.

They really dont want to loose the UK but better to let us go than compromise the core values. It's exactly the same situation faced by families and businesses, if someone is rocking the boat let them go and do their own thing. Some make a great success of separation most don't.

winterwhite Sat 22-Sept-18 18:00:21

Up EURS - must be the offspring of the Eurosceptic 'Up yours Delors' of the early '90s....

GrannyGravy13 Sat 22-Sept-18 17:59:44

MawBroon ????

MawBroon Sat 22-Sept-18 17:50:37

I think TM came across at her best ever in her “respect” speech!
Tusk’s Instagram jibe was petty, trivial and childish and the body language of the other leaders at the Salzburg summit spoke volumes- none of it respectful.
She may have been a walking car crash up to now, but yesterday’s speech showed a woman with dignity and dare I say, balls.

Anniebach Sat 22-Sept-18 17:38:53

Corbyn is sitting on the fence, he wants the keys to No 10, so for him it’s see which way the wind blows and he will go where he thinks he will get more votes.

specki4eyes Sat 22-Sept-18 17:22:21

So TM has coined yet another meaningless mantra..."the EU should treat us with respect". She sounds like a dotty old person demanding rights according to his/her great age? What has she done to engender respect? Pratted about doing SFA for two years? Coined daft phrases like "Strong and Stable"? Lost the Tories' majority by calling a pointless election? Sold herself down to river to the DUP to achieve so called power? Denied the part she played in the Windrush scandal? Ignored the Grenfell Tower victims?
She dances a toe-curlingly embarrassing jig whilst the UK economy goes down the tubes. She's a joke.

MawBroon Sat 22-Sept-18 17:19:31

So John McDonnell has just said on tonight’s news that he wants another General Election (in the words of Brenda from Bristol “Not another one!”) but fails to say what Labour Party policies would be. Is he just waiting in the hope that we the electorate will simply vote for whatever the other side are not proposing?
JC has not committed to Leave or Remain up to now. Why should we trust a blank cheque?

Grandad1943 Sat 22-Sept-18 16:39:44

What those "trash" newspapers fail to inform their readers of, would be that even if Britain walks away with no leave agreement the UK will still have to pay the EU many billions.

Much of the Forty billion that the UK has agreed to pay on leaving is for projects that Britain has already signed up to such as European space projects etc. There are also pension agreements and much else that the UK is legally obliged to pay.

Of course, the extreme right-wing leave leaders and their newspaper cohorts are stating that Britain would not have to pay the forty billion in the case of a no deal withdraw.

However, the truth is that a very large percentage of those multi-billions would still be owed, and all the EU would have to do is drag Britain through the international courts to win the legal right to those billions.

The UK would then have to face paying all the costs and would also incur huge damage to its political and commercial reputation at a time when it would be attempting to sign up new trade deals with countries outside the European Union

Nicenanny3 Sat 22-Sept-18 16:13:40

Yes Day6 very fitting I agree "UP EURS" to the EU not you, although I like to say that to a few on here ?

trisher Sat 22-Sept-18 16:01:47

Day6 Our bargaining power is non-existent.
Exactly so why the hell is she warning the rest of the EU that they must treat us with respect? They don't have to do anything. They can watch us walk away and continue as they are. Of course there are those (particularly around Mrs May and responsible for her being PM) who will make money from the serious financial crash a No Deal would result in. The poorest will suffer but the richest will come out of it worth even more. So yes there are those for whom it is May's Finest Hour. It's just the absolute pits for the rest of us.
The phrase "When you're in a hole stop digging" applies I think.

Grandad1943 Sat 22-Sept-18 16:00:52

So, the Daily Express & Mail spout again. grin

Day6 Sat 22-Sept-18 15:36:30

Oh, have just checked the Express today.

May's Finest Hour is that headline. That might not be the reaction of Remainers (or left wingers) who'd like us to concede, back down, collapse, etc, AND of course pay Brussels BILLIONS every year for very few if any concessions.. hmm

MawBroon Sat 22-Sept-18 15:32:30

Ow I am confused Grandad
Are you saying you used the line before Tusk’s Instagram post? confused