EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

Wonder if anyone's reminded May about that unnecessary election she said she wouldn't call that she called that cost her a majority and forced her into a relationship with the DUP...

Is she active on twitter? Or maybe we could write her a letter about it in case she's forgotten.

Wonder if anyone's reminded May about that unnecessary election she said she wouldn't call that she called that cost her a majority and forced her into a relationship with the DUP...

She's in a class of her own when it comes to political strategy.

Any Remain politician with any balls should be writing an open letter to all the brextards, (Rnige, Gove, dePfeffel, Raab, Rewood, ids, & especially Villiers), pointing out that the prospect of a border between NI & Eire was repeatedly raised in the pre-Referendum debates & discussion, but always ignored by those wishing to leave the EU.
18 months on, this crucial item still has not been resolved.
The brexitters do not have the skills to deliver anything but the hardest of hard brexits,
and,
that was not the option on the voting slip.

Varadkar:

'The responsibility of any prime minister is to ensure that they can follow through on agreements that they make and we are surprised and disappointed that they haven’t been able to.'

Pretty punchy stuff.

happy brexit vote anniversary, it was nothing to do with racist cunts, was it?

That story neglects to mention his links/donations to Britain First, Trump's favourite news source.

before using his van as a weapon outside Spicy Night in Harrow on 23 June.
The 48-year-old window fitter was heard to say "I'm going to kill a Muslim. I'm doing it for Britain".
He pleaded guilty to dangerous driving and beating his wife.

Arh, threats to kill, and using a vehicle as a weapon. Sounds like terrorism to me. but no just dangerous driving, he should have got a better lawyer, he could have got away with careless driving easy.

Obviously a howler but she must have some redeeming qualities.
Given that politics still seems very much like an old boys club.
Labour I don't think have had a female leadership candidate get past the first round of voting?

I think her redeeming quality is that she's not as horrifying as any other candidate - she's an absence of Boris, not a positive of May.

I.e. anyone could have become PM in her situation who wasn't one of the other candidates.

In a way it's ironic that the (somewhat mental sometimes) corner of the UK that everyone forgot called Northern Ireland is now causing such a headache for a political caste that never cared about it. If the whole Brexit wasn't so tragic, it would be mega hilarious.

RE xenophobia, it's often a lot more subtle than outright nutcases, which makes it way harder to fight as people don't even know themselves (hey I am not racists, I have black friends bladiebla and they actually do, but they will still read the daily hail and all that shit) the BNP are easy targets, but it's usual subconscious prejudices and fear of immigrants hammered into people that are more common.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/brexit-prejudice-scientists-link-foreigners-immigrants-racism-xenophobia-leave-eu-a8078586.html the leave campaign exploited this quite well, enough to swing the vote.

You can explain that one, over a coffee.
Might need to be the new year now mind.

Especially if the attacker claimed his victim was 'just a cyclist'.

Think there may be a wee bit of rose tinted glasses there...

The political arithmetic in this country is more brutal than any instrument of medieval torture.

Did Theresa May forget that the first rule of politics is being able to count?

I think she was counting on that '100-seat majority'.

The only thing propping May up, and a guarantee of a hard Brexit, is the rabid fear of Corbyn and McDonnell on Downing Street.

I actually wish she had got it. Better than being held hostage by the Brexit headbangers and the DUP.

I think there is a fair bit of bias towards May on the basis that we (lfgss) generally disagree with her politics. In much the same way Thatcher is regarded. Your post seems to highlight on one hand how much harder it is for women and yet don't recognise her achievement.

Sadly I don't see a woman leading the Labour party that soon. I hope I'm wrong but their track record doesn't inspire me.

I'm not certain of that.
I don't know the brexitty tendencies of the Tory candidates who failed to win the seats that were being counted in that 'majority'. My guess is that the swivel-eyed loon membership of the local Tory constituency parties may well have lined up more brextards to swing over the kippy end of the electorate.

don't recognise her achievement.

I cannot remember one piece of legislation,
or,
even one action as Home Secretary that advanced the cause of women.
TMay has advanced within the Tory party solely because she has emulated any Tory male.

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If the whole Brexit wasn't so tragic, it would be mega hilarious.

It is hilarious, watching the Tories fuck it up through their own ineptitude is comedy gold.

It's just a pity that they are taking all of us down with them.