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

No Jane10 no poverty before, it’s all come about in three years

I think that’s a good plan Pollyanna, come the general election, let’s vote them all out, and start again with some new blood

I think Mrs May tried to do the best for the people who voted to come out of the European Union, unfortunately she was shafted by her colleagues who wanted to stay in the EU and they will do the same to whoever takes over as Prime Minister. Politicians are voted in by us people but they don’t want to do what we want them to once they are in parliament. We should vote them all out and get in some people who will do what we want. I think the biggest majority of the conservatives have forgotten why and how they got there, democracy is dead.

And there has never been poverty before? Absolutely all ills are personally down to her?

Agree Riverdaffyd........would have to eat whatever job they were doing - who else read the appalling fact that cleaners and others in the Dept for Business are having to use an INTERNALLY " set up food bank because the useless govt contract outsourcing them can't (be bothered?) to pay them due to incompetence?

Agreed to the original post. A huge thank you for all you've done. I feel she was set up to fail in a difficult position where no one could have done any better. You can't negotiate with people who refuse to negotiate.

Has May demanded the victims of Grenfell pay for anything from the monies donated ? A labour government did this to other disaster victims ,

Food banks are in every country in Europe.

The ‘go home’ vans were reference to illegal immigrants

Seems poverty has only existed in this country for 3 years

To blame May for all the ills in the country is unfair. A Home Secretary does not run the country.

@trisher - I totally agree with you. Glad that there are some on here who can see her for what she is and don't turn a blind eye to what she has done.

I agree Beammeupscottie! But what we have learned is that most MP’s feel so entitled that they have forgotten that they are mere mouthpieces for their electorate. We don’t give a damn what they think about anything ... we care that they vote for things the way we have asked them to. It is high time a lot of their benefits were removed - why do they pay next to nothing in their restaurants, they would have to eat whatever job they were doing! Why should we pay for second homes when a lot of them live close enough to go home under their own steam every night! Too entitled for their own good I am afraid.

I couldn't disagree more! Where were her tears for the victims of Windrush or Grenfell? Who sent out the Go Home vans? Whose austerity policies and inadequate assessments of need have led to unnecessary deaths, many by suicide? Her setting out of red lines in the Lancaster House speech, to appease her party's right wingers, was what continued the Brexit mess Cameron led us into. I could go on.

'Deport first, appeal later' - is that something someone with integrity would say about hundreds of her fellow countrymen, many if whom don't remember living in another country?
Taking care of the Grenville people, many of whom are still in temporary accommodation, proved to be lies.
Compare this with how the NZ PM has behaved in the face of tragedy.

I think she did well under the most incredible pressure. She was never going to be allowed to succeed by the misogynous, grey suited old boys' club that is the British Parliament. Thank you, Mrs May for trying so hard!

Jane10
Totally agree

Jane10 if any woman ignores poverty, allows the ill and disabled to be punished financially, discriminates against the children of immigrants, and generally introduces a policy of hatred and abuse to be introduced for refugees and asylum seekers I consider it my duty to criticise her. The suffragettes fought not only for the vote, but for equality, and because they believed women would bring a kinder and more compassionate attitude to those in need into politics. If it's "slagging off" to point out when a women hasn't done any of this well so be it.

Here here she didn’t run away she stood firm did anyone care or help her no they just moaned and complain. I am not a Tory but she has my vote as a person. She should walk tall I admire her enormously

I do so agree with you.

All those slagging Theresa and blaming her for all the economic ills of the country seem to have forgotten that she, personally, has been flat out trying to find a way to reconcile an intransigent bunch at first in the EU then in the shark tank of Parliament. She hasn't had the chance to get to work on all the other aspects of government. She must have had countless sleepless nights and long hard weeks followed by working weekends including media interviews and every single word she uttered analysed in detail. Don't slag the woman

She spared us a Corbyn act , hugging victims and declaring
‘ I feel your pain’, cameras were there. When she met the victims it was in private .

Again we don't all gush with emotion which for people who do are usually aimed at the media to show how caring their often crocodile tears are!
As Annie said, the next person in this job will know the pitfalls; T.M didn't and so fell into the traps which were undoubtedly shamefully laid for her, mostly by her own M.P's! She's done a 'dummy run' for the next person who should (?!) fare better, even dear old know all Jeremy, god forbid!

I agree with Ceegeebee and others who are remembering the awful grinding poverty she has promoted, along with the decimation of the NHS and social care amongst many other things. The Grenfell survivors are petitioning now about the lack of any effective government action on making sure people are safe in their own homes.......because there has been none. It is Tory policies of austerity and the hostile environment heaped on top of the Brexit shambles that has ruined this country, and given the far right carte blanche to make things even worse, if that's possible.
I love my country too, but I'm ashamed of it now.

Ceegeebee I couldn't agree more.

I agree Ceegeebee she was an awful Home Secretary and a dreadful PM. She was put in place by the Tories who have a track record for disposing of their leaders with absolute ruthlessness. She should have known what would happen. (Please don't leave)

Ceegeebee you know she shed no tears ?

This thread has convinced me to leave this group. That heartless woman shed no tears for the victims of Grenfell, or Windrush, or the many homeless, some of whom have died on the street, or the people forced to foodbanks to feed their children, or the destitute who have committed suicide because of welfare sanctions. The list goes on. Her tears were for herself alone, because she has lost the power she enjoyed. Sadly, those that come after her are likely to be of the same ilk. That so many of you on here have succumbed to the media presentation of her doesn't bode well for the future.

No one could have known what lay ahead with brexit, it was an unknown. Mrs May is not a fortune telling looking into a crystal ball seeing the house in a shambles , seeing some in her own party and the opposition wielded knives in their bid to be PM .

She has endured three years of back stabbing and mockery , the next PM will know the pitfalls, she did not, no one did.