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The incompetence of May's premiership continues to amaze me. May has always said that, despite the closeness of the 2016 result, we have to respect the Will of the People. Today, she's giving a speech where she compares the 2016 vote to the vote in 1998 to set up a Welsh Assembly. Her speech has been pre-released to the Press. In it, she will say that, even though the 1998 referendum vote to set up a Welsh Assembly was very close, it was “accepted by both sides” and the “popular legitimacy of that institution has never seriously been questioned”.Yeah well.When the Bill to set up the Welsh Assembly was brought to Parliament, 144 Tory MPs voted against it. Go on. Have a wild guess as to who one of those 144 was.That's right. Theresa May MP.Absolutely f**king useless. She can't even check facts about her own past before opening her trap and pouring out today's bullshit.
Excellent contribution as usual AL.
Sorry I am still feeling (lets say) Ratty after Wycombe
Quote from: Donnywolf on January 14, 2019, 01:40:15 pmSorry I am still feeling (lets say) Ratty after WycombeYou can't blame May for Wycombe, Wolfie!
Mrs May has said there is more chance of Brexit not going ahead than a no deal scenario. What happened to “no deal is better than a bad deal”? Why was “no Brexit is better than a bad deal” never touted by her?
I think she has that place in the history books sewn up at least. Just not for the reasons she'd like.
Clem Atlee? Churchill? Harold Macmillan? Thatcher to her supporters. Harold Wilson, brilliantly holding together the centripetal forces in the Labour party for a decade (and it disintegrated within 5 years of his retirement). The point is though that it's a finely calibrated scale. It's not a binary Great/Shite assessment. There are PMs who, whatever your opinion on their politics, directed the agenda and changed the direction of the country. Atlee and Thatcher are two perfect examples.There are PMs who get buffeted by events outside their direct control. Major over Black Wednesday and the start of the Tory civil war over Europe. Brown over the Great Financial Crash. Then there are PMs who made catastrophically shocking errors and lost control. Since the War, that's only really happened three times, through a PM's choice of policy. Eden over Suez, Cameron over Austerity and Brexit and May, for over playing her hand on Brexit and then f**king it up in the 2017 GE through her own spectacularly awful performance. Those are the three that the history books will have at the bottom of any list of post-War PMs. All the others have redeeming features.