Theresa May

Sky News are reporting this evening (21/03/19) that all MPs are being advised to increase their personal security precautions and to only take taxis as transport to and from Parliament.

The above is all due to Mays attack on all MPs during her "address to the nation" yesterday.

Totally disgusting. May should resign as soon as practically possible following her return from the Brussels EU leaders meeting.

At the EU leaders summit tonight (21/03/19) Theresa May is told to sit outside the main meeting while the other leaders decide on whether to grant the extension to artical fifty which May has desperately requested

So, this is taking back control.

What a laughing stock this government has made of Britain in front of the rest of the world.

Who mentioned unelected groups? And exactly how is Mrs may leading her party? They're in such disarray it's ludicrous. The attorney general contradicts the Prime Minister, half the cabinet vote against the government and Boris is keeping quiet. It's a shambles!

A leader is there to lead his/her party not share the leadership with unelected groups

Whatever you may feel about leave or remain you should be seriously worried by Mrs May's speech. We live in a Parliamentary democracy with a Prime Minister not a President. The woman has delusions of grandeur. Her speech never once mentioned her party, nor her government. She only referred to "You, the public" and herself "I have negotiated". A Prime Minister is there to lead a party and a government and if they cannot do that they should go. She evidently sees herself as the Nation's saviour. It's seriously worrying.

giggling too

thank you

i feel like horsing around a bit



is being rabid called rabosity I wonder

muffin
Absolutely brilliant ????

Ha ha ha muffinthemoo! Love it!

Can you blame her?

I bet she really does have those moments behind closed doors. Fully understandable.

Day6 I feel you might appreciate this clip

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW7PHZodAXg

giggling at that, so true....

i watch my blood pressure by remaining calm.

I fail to rant and love being here with all you lovely well balanced understanding people



the majority won easy to comprehend. Well it is for me dim, but vaguely gorgeous......

maryeliza.....you have been rattled all day, hence all the
Effing and blinding from you, one supposes.

Maryeliza, I am trying very hard to adopt your calm, dignified and measured responses to other posters.
Thank you.

(Think you might have missed the grinning emoji at the end of my last post. )

no deal here we go,, faaaab

the majority won leave already in the referendum, I remember the referendum.

democracy

leaving corrupt controlling EU

majority
majority won.


no more referendums. hooray
the result is in law...

She is part of the "rabble" too!!!

I think I and others would " lose the plot " too if we were up against the rabble which is Westminster.

Day6 why so rattled?

I pay you the compliment of assuming that you and other leave voters are also capable of learning.

Oh gee, how very kind of you varian!!! Thank you sooooooo much!

My university education wasn't a waste of time after all.

Patronising much?

Varian, you just cannot see that everything you post regarding Brexit is indicative of your contempt for those who chose to vote Leave. It's nasty.

If the Remain camp ever need a poster girl, it would be you. They'd have you mentoring in the art of disdain for the common people.

My last post was for another thread (referendums and elections thread) . I posted it here accidentally, but I do think it is quite relevant to the way Theresa May has behaved. She was aware of the powerful influence of the press.

She has regarded the Daily Mail as her scriptwriter because it has a large readership and its online presence is formidable. The last editor Paul Dacre, was the first member of the press to be invited into Downing Street after her election and she has focussed herself on what the Daily Mail especially want her to say and do.

Although she did indentify as a Remainer before the referendum, she was very lukewarm in her campaigning and I don't think she ever actually had any strong convictions at that time, but thought that Remain would win and it would aid her ambition to follow Cameron.

Since the referendum went the other way she has gone overboard to "honour the result of the referendum and deliver brexit". She is like a religious convert who has to be even more devout and pious than everyone else. As she has become more and more painted into a corner by her own failure to reach out and persuade, she seems to have got more blinkered and more fanatical, to the extent that I now believe she is actually prepared to see us crash out of the EU with no deal, regardless of the harm it would do to the country.

I just hope that our MPs find the backbone to do the right thing and parliament is able to stop her in time.

)This is just my opinion so feel free to ignore it)

We have a minority government being run by extremists in the DUP and ERG so not much of an advert for FPTP.

The survey of a 30,000-strong online panel found that only 41 per cent of those who said they do not read a newspaper voted Leave (versus 52 per cent of the general population).

Press Gazette analaysis has found that overall, national press coverage was strongly weighted in favour of Leave in the month leading up to the referendum.

Four national newspaper titles were found to be strongly biased in favour of Leave through their choice of front-page stories: the Daily Express, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph and The Sun.

Data from the British Election Study found that some 70 per cent of Sun and Daily Express readers voted Leave in the referendum, followed by 66 per cent of Daily Mail readers, 55 per cent of Daily Telegraph readers and 44 per cent of Daily Mirror readers.

A report by NatCen, called Understanding the Leave Vote, said: “The balance of pro- and anti- Leave positions of the newspapers was important given how many people read them, particularly the popular press. It is interesting to note that, when it came to the EU Referendum vote, people were more likely to follow the position of the newspaper they read than the political party they identify with.”

www.pressgazette.co.uk/study-readers-of-the-sun-express-and-daily-mail-strongly-favoured-brexit-in-eu-referendum/

Oh please varian!
Your posts are patronising in the extreme, and it is you that has your head in the sand (and you have had ever since the referendum.)

FPTP is the best way not PR.
PR governments are always falling out with each other and end up quite often with extreme parties, like in Germany at the present moment ( where the second largest is the extreme rightwing.)

I have never abused anyone on GN Day6 but I have pointed out much that I and others have learned in the last three years. I pay you the compliment of assuming that you and other leave voters are also capable of learning. Only keeping your head in the sand and your fingers in your ears could prevent you from learning.

I hope that Leave voters have learned a lot in the last three years but if they haven't then they will be able to vote out again if we have a Final Say

I think you are extremely arrogant to suggest Leave voters needed to 'learn' anything.

If anything Leave voters have been angered by attempts to prevent Brexit.

All we have learned is that it's hard to get out, most of the UK parliament are self serving and have not wanted to honour the referendum result, and that Remain voters have persisted in taunting and rubbishing Leavers from the day the majority voted to leave the EU.

My resolve is as strong as ever, if not more so because of the appalling sneering and abuse Leave voters have had to contend with - and still do, and on GN from you in particular varian.

Sore loser much?

A good post eazybee and some truth in much of what you say, but given the irreconcilable views of the HOC and their
Party politics playing and self interest, she was always on a hiding to nothing,
The deal concocted with the EU isn’t a bad deal IMHO and goes a long way to get all sides behind it.....but they never will it seems.
We are nearer to no deal and WTO rules now as a result of this.

I think I am right in saying LEAVE (the EU) was what the majority wanted, not a deal with Brussels. I dislike her deal, which is likely to be the only one the EU offer now.
I agree with this, and many of your points, Day6, but I do think Theresa May has been the author of her own misfortunes; she seems to have a knack of making the wrong decision because of her inability to grasp the complexities of this political situation, and an unshakeable belief in her own judgement.
The second election was disastrous, as was this deal agreed in December 2017; her insistence on negotiating herself and excluding Brexit secretaries David Davies, Liam Fox , Dominic Raab and the latest one whose name I can not even remember; her reliance on the Rasputin- like civil servant/adviser Oliver Robbins, a noted Europhile; her treatment of her cabinet at Chequers and subsequently; Geoffrey Cox's admission about the legality of her agreement; her string of assurances about dates and votes which are then overturned without a backward glance, and finally this headmisstressly outburst on Parliament's behaviour, which should have come months ago, not now, when she needs to win them over.

Great commanders, such as Nelson and Napoleon, are said to have been blessed with 'luck'; I think it was more an astute reading of circumstances leading to the ability to seize the moment, make the right decision and capture success. Not always, I know, but dogged determination does not always win through, and bullying and battering her own parliament whilst colluding with the EU will not work. They, who have not made a single concession, can now stand back and admire the chaos they have orchestrated, via Theresa May, a Remainer.