Re: May ripped to shreds, unpleasant - a contrary view. Archived Message
Posted by John Monro on March 23, 2019, 4:47 am, in reply to "May ripped to shreds, unpleasant"
Theresa May's main folly was to take on the job of PM in this situation. I don't think she's quite as bad as many make her out to be. She's everybody else's very useful scape-goat for their own incompetence and stupidity. She is trying to deliver what she thinks the nation wants, that's to leave the EU, she doesn't want to leave without an agreement, so she's managed to get one.Isn't that exactly what the UK wanted? How can any person criticise her without being hypocritical? How can her divided party criticise her? How can a divided House of Commons criticise her? How can a deeply divided nation criticise her? The fact that the whole matter of leaving the EU is a complete fiasco is not all her fault, that was David Cameron, though in the fact she was in the same cabinet, then she shares, along with the rest of the Tory party, some responsibility. I don't think she's particularly bright, she must be a bit racist, in her anti-immigration policies and her record in the Home Office. She has an inflexible way of thinking, one thing at a time, and there's no nuance to her. She is not communicative and seems to lack compassion. She is stubborn and intractable and probably almost impossible to deal with. However, all that pretty well describes the functioning of the EU. It's two mules trying to come to some sensible arrangement, and predictably failing. But there is an agreement, of sorts, and the UK should shut up and suck it up, because no-one forced this on them. It's a totally self-inflicted wound. When she criticised Parliament, she has some justice on her side. It was Parliament that agreed to the referendum and that they'd stand by the result. That was as idiotic, though less immoral and with less dead people, as the decision to invade Iraq. I cannot now understand why any sane Brit would wish to leave the EU. Yes, it's a strange organisation, and has major faults, but you know, these are echoed around the whole planet. How can anyone seriously affirm that a trade and investment agreement with the USA would be better than that with the EU? This is sheer lunacy. We now have the leakage of so-called secret documents about the lack of planning around a no-deal Brexit. Of course this will be an arranged leak, perhaps from the PM's office, to finally frighten Parliament's MPs to agree to her agreement and frighten the public to go along with it. As Labour under Corbyn seem to be as confused as anyone else that may in fact be the best solution, worse than what the UK has at present, but better than chaos. There's no particular reason to expect anything charitable from the EU, and Macron in particular, and why should we? If Theresa May is the worst PM ever, then she's the mere iceberg floating above the surface, while the submerged 90% represents the incompetence, the failing democratic institutions and the failing economic and social policies of the UK in the last two generations.
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