"I wish I loved the human race; I wish I loved it's silly face;"

Maybe people want to vote for people who act like human beings instead of machines? I dont know ..

And no doubt it will be on the front pages of all the newspapers tomorrow.

It is so not necessary to put up onscreen a head and shoulders still of her becoming overwhelmed at the end of her speech. That is so mean.

What have we become that we want politicians to publicly
display emotions for the camera

I agree as well Avor2
I’m fed up, disgusted, and there’s not a single person I can think is who I would want as party leader
I also loathe Jeremy Corbyn, and a large chunk of the Labour Party
I think the state of British politics is at an all time low

Gonegirl I agree with every word you have written.

Brexit has been an absolute shambles from start to finish but I feel Teresa May has tried really hard and deserves some peace now ( and a nice holiday!)

I agree Avor2.

Agree Gonegirl they will always slag anyone they can to climb to the top, goodness knows what we will get instead, they will vote in another man I expect and then they will start to stab him in the back, I have had it with politicians, The last one left in the country please turn the lights off !!

That was his problem and Mrs May's as well.

True Brown didn’t hug a husky or want to hug hoodies, he didn’t hug people and say ‘I feel your pain, Some cannot act for the camera

I tend to agree with eezybee, she was the author of her own downfall.

I was in London today and picked up a copy of the vening Standard to read on the train home. Now the editor of the Standard is George Osborne, so he has a particular, but informed view. But the paper gave a fair assessment of her faults and successes.

The paper said that her first mistake was to fail to fully take on board how close the referendum result was, instead by describing it as 'decisive' and pushing through Brexit plans regardless of other opinions, she was, at least partially, responsible for the mess Brexit has become.

Then there was the decision to call another election in 2017. A decision made by a small tight group of advisors with little wider party consultation. This applied to a lot of her decsion making, with, at times, cabinet ministers not told in advance of major decision announcements.

Overall I think she was cloth eared and socially gauche. Dealing well with terrorism, but not acting fast enough at a personal level, to the Grenfell Towers fire, and then only because she was advised to, nor did she understanding the need to be seen to be listening and responding to her parliamentary colleagues

I am not sure whether she would have been any better if her term in office had not included Brexit. I feel her personal traits, not being a people person, vital in politics, where networking and a certain amount of buttering -up is essential and not being sensitive to public expectations after desperate and tragic events, would have lad to her downfall.

Gordon Brown was another such and his lack of the personal touch, made his premiership similarly fraught, despite having a wife in PR, who had a very sure feel about these things.

Both of them worthy and principled people, but lacking the populist touch so essential if you are prime minister.

Sorry, mycat, but J. C is not only out of his depth but a most unpleasant man as well. His comments about Mrs May were to say the least disingenuous and frankly out of order, the only person to be so. Along with his complete inability to put together a rational sentence let alone idea, the man is generally awful!!

GGMK3, true, but I notice you haven’t advocated who should do what you suggest , is this perhaps because at this moment in time there really isn’t anyone ....... the very thought of Boris Johnson...... to quote the well known saying ‘It can’t get any worse’ I suggest that it most definitely can.

Am I gleeful no I'm angry that this woman has kept this despicable government in power. And as for quotes Cromwell on the Rump Parliament says it best You have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately... Depart, I say; and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!
Address to the Rump Parliament (20 April 1653)
And that goes for all of them!!!!

I think she tried her best and did what she thought was best but I think she was the totally wrong personality for the top job totally out of her depth.

. I think the same with Corbyn. Good man Also totally out of his depth.

I hope no one would be gleeful today it was quite painful to watch her speech

On a human level, I feel sorry for anyone having to go through the awful way we treat our Prime Ministers when they fail. However, I cannot feel sorry for Theresa May when I look at the disintegrating government she leaves behind to be headed by a Tory leader voted in by about 100,000 electors. We need a new government and her efforts have meant we have needed one for some time.

We need a government that will fix the Brexit Crisis for everyone not just the third of the country that voted "out". May couldn't do it and I don't believe a new Tory leader will be able to either.

We need a government that believes in the NHS, not one led by someone who believes in selling it off and privatising it.

We need someone to fix the worst housing crisis since the war. Someone who cares about the homeless and does not set them targets they can only fail. We need a huge programme of house building.

We need someone who does not have austerity as their ideology. We need all communities to get the funding they require to offer a reasonable life to the people in them. No more North-South divide.

We need a New Deal based round Greening our country.

It's not just May. In some ways, she never stood a chance both because of her party and because of her beliefs. Why should the country have to have a new PM imposed on them by a minority government?

We need an election.

Whilst one feels sorry for her on a human level with the amount of strain she has been under, her resilience could be interpreted as obstinacy and a refusal to listen. Her legacy won’t be positive, she has to take a good part of the responsibility for the current crisis, calling the unnecessary election for one. She has put her party before the good of the country as a whole, and no doubt we will be in for more of the same.

Exactly Urmston
Time to get things moving again.

Poor woman. She did her best with a very bad situation. MPs of all parties have behaved shamefully in this situation and have lost our respect (what little there was in the first place) and trust. They are a complete and utter shower.

But it will take a big personality to re-assert leadership of the weakened Tory party. And lift Parliament out of their current paralysis.
As well as reaching consensus or compromise with the other parties

Actually I do think her resigning will make a difference to the logjam. The new PM will clear out the Cabinet, assert his/her authority better, not capitulate and the EU are already planning a get together next week, after the results of the EU elections, to discuss how to deal with the new U.K. Prime Minister.

I disagree with you on one point Maw

I thought David Davies, Boris and Dominic Raab were all men of principle as they actually resigned from Cabinet. They put their money where their mouth was, so to speak unlike so many who said they were ‘thinking’ of resigning their posts!

She was arrogant. Her belief in 'the country' was only her belief in herself. She thought was the only one who could make the things she wanted happen.
She was wrong. And the country will have to suffer for years as her legacy.

I may have felt it was high time for TM to go, but would we have preferred her to cut and run like Cameron? She may have been blinkered and stubborn and indeed made bad decisions, but compared to David Davies, Boris Johnson and Michael Gove she has shown real grit and principles.
The sight of the Front Bench (not to mention the Back Bench) rats distancing themselves from her as they fled the sinking ship will be hard to forget or forgive.
I am sorry she has been so personally vilified both in the media and here and frankly, her going is not going to help the country one jot.
Put yer feet up Theresa and have a and a large piece of