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Grammar schools is quite a decisive policy to introduce so soon into her tenure, I think there's a certain amount of unease on the back benches.
Also, generally speaking she's not a very good orator, she appears to stumble over her words at PMQs pretty consistently. She doesn't sound convincing to me.
Thought she made a decent enough HS but come to think of it I don't remember much in the way of high profile activity.
I'm a bit underwhelmed.
Also, generally speaking she's not a very good orator, she appears to stumble over her words at PMQs pretty consistently. She doesn't sound convincing to me.
Thought she made a decent enough HS but come to think of it I don't remember much in the way of high profile activity.
I'm a bit underwhelmed.
greygoose said:
I am not sure she has a vision really
Thank f
k for that. I want my governments to do the important stuff - build roads, educate my children, put me back together when I get broken. That kind of thing. I get very nervous when they start talking about 'vision', 'ambition' or (god forbid) 'principles'. A good government is a good administrator, nothing more and nothing less. Leave the visionary stuff to those more suited.Agree with OP. Plus her record as HS left a lot to be desired. Missing targets, divisive vans and pissing off the Police are not things she can be proud of.
She hasn't got a huge amount of time (in terms of passing new laws through parliament) until election campaigning begins for 2020 so she has to get cracking on the controversial stuff she wants to push through. Runs the risk of dividing her party, and that's before you even consider the Brexit negotiation ststorm which is coming.
She hasn't got a huge amount of time (in terms of passing new laws through parliament) until election campaigning begins for 2020 so she has to get cracking on the controversial stuff she wants to push through. Runs the risk of dividing her party, and that's before you even consider the Brexit negotiation s
tstorm which is coming.V6Pushfit said:
Cameron held back from utterly slating Corbyn, I don't think TM will be quite as restrained.
Judging by her recent performances, I don't think she is capable even if she tried.grumbledoak said:
I don't give a fk how she "performs" at PMQs, to be honest. It is a stupid game between oversized children. I will judge her on what she does - or does not - achieve.
Let's see if "Brexit" means "brexit".
Entirely agree. How she faces up to idiots who quote "experts called John" is irrelevant, its what she actually does that counts. k how she "performs" at PMQs, to be honest. It is a stupid game between oversized children. I will judge her on what she does - or does not - achieve.Let's see if "Brexit" means "brexit".
Hosenbugler said:
grumbledoak said:
I don't give a fk how she "performs" at PMQs, to be honest. It is a stupid game between oversized children. I will judge her on what she does - or does not - achieve.
Let's see if "Brexit" means "brexit".
Entirely agree. How she faces up to idiots who quote "experts called John" is irrelevant, its what she actually does that counts. k how she "performs" at PMQs, to be honest. It is a stupid game between oversized children. I will judge her on what she does - or does not - achieve.Let's see if "Brexit" means "brexit".
Doesn't bode well does it?
It's going to be our version of Trump vs Hillary.
The grammar school thing annoys me a bit as it wasn't in any party manifesto at the time of the election. The Tories were voted in on a manifesto of promises of varying likelihood, but she's come in halfway through ALA Brown and now decided that we really need grammar schools- isn't her job still to deliver the 2015 manifesto as well as she can?
The grammar school thing annoys me a bit as it wasn't in any party manifesto at the time of the election. The Tories were voted in on a manifesto of promises of varying likelihood, but she's come in halfway through ALA Brown and now decided that we really need grammar schools- isn't her job still to deliver the 2015 manifesto as well as she can?
glazbagun said:
It's going to be our version of Trump vs Hillary.
The grammar school thing annoys me a bit as it wasn't in any party manifesto at the time of the election. The Tories were voted in on a manifesto of promises of varying likelihood, but she's come in halfway through ALA Brown and now decided that we really need grammar schools- isn't her job still to deliver the 2015 manifesto as well as she can?
I think that etch-a-sketch has been shakenThe grammar school thing annoys me a bit as it wasn't in any party manifesto at the time of the election. The Tories were voted in on a manifesto of promises of varying likelihood, but she's come in halfway through ALA Brown and now decided that we really need grammar schools- isn't her job still to deliver the 2015 manifesto as well as she can?
Brexit poses such a difficult and complex and overwhelming problem to Theresa May's Government that it is very difficult indeed for her to get it right. The Referendum vote was too close - a huge number of people will be very unhappy whatever the result.
A 'hard' Brexit seems inevitable to me at the moment. If this causes damage to the economy it could prove fatal for her as public opinion shifts behind wanting to stay in the EU - just as her government has taken the country out. If she delivers a 'soft' Brexit, then the right of her party will not forgive her. It seems to me she cannot win this either way.
Theresa May seems to have had a easy time of things in the press so far. That may well not last, especially if the Brexit negotiations go badly. Gordon Brown seemed like he could do no wrong to the media in his first few months in office. The same thing could happen to Theresa May.
A 'hard' Brexit seems inevitable to me at the moment. If this causes damage to the economy it could prove fatal for her as public opinion shifts behind wanting to stay in the EU - just as her government has taken the country out. If she delivers a 'soft' Brexit, then the right of her party will not forgive her. It seems to me she cannot win this either way.
Theresa May seems to have had a easy time of things in the press so far. That may well not last, especially if the Brexit negotiations go badly. Gordon Brown seemed like he could do no wrong to the media in his first few months in office. The same thing could happen to Theresa May.
V6Pushfit said:
I think you'll find she is.
He's a sitting duck.
Yet to see any evidence she can. Today was a case in point. She couldn't handle the questions so kept repeating her original answer before desperately and awkwardly trying to change the subject to employment figures. It was even worse than last week but not dissimilar from her tact while Home Secretary. Only then it went more unnoticed.He's a sitting duck.
The highlight was when she asked JC to "stop casting his mind back to the 1950s". Comedy gold. She shot herself in the foot with that one and left several Tory back benchers squirming.
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