No defending her but there is one distinct difference. May inherited the Brexit mess.. and proceeded to bungle it. Trump creates his own problems and then doubles down to bungle them further.
In a non-eventful time she may have been an adequate placeholder to keep the PM's chair warm till a better replacement comes along.

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Was there anything May could have even done?

Of course she was stupid enough to take on this stupid challenge.

Yea

She could have - and this js not rocket science in the UK - realised the hardcore of 40 or so tories who are willing to watch the world burn would never be brought on side and she could have consulted with the legislature and and found a way

She owns all of this. All of it. Cameron was a patsy but she is
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I've no words

One hell of a dancer though.

Will take a straight up even trade and ask no questions. Please say we have a deal.

Not saying that I agree with Brexit, because I don't in most ways, but wasn't the vote 51/49 %. In a true democracy that's a win for the let's leave side. Strange that in the USA Trump gets elected with a reversed 49/51.

Was it true Democracy? Didn't 3,000,000 illegal Mexicans vote pro-Brexit.

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LOL!! How did I forget that "fact".

Her biggest mistake was calling the election. If she hadn't no need to caucus with the DUP and she could have sacrificed the Irish border. (The rat bastard English screwing over thr Irish is not something new).

Personally I'd say fuck you to Junker, watch Germany, and probably Italy freak out, and make concessions to not have a hard Exit.

Abolish parliament and go back to absolute monarchy?

Bercow is a smug fuck. I don't understand how they let such an impartial douche be speaker.

Only strange if you don’t understand how our elections work. It worked exactly how it was supposed to, that’s not strange.

Why would it be much better to have a completely partisan speaker?

Agreed on Ireland and if you asked many of my friends we'd also be happy to rid ourselves of Wales, Scotland and parts of the North of England......... I'm not joking

She would never walk away and I'm not sure the EU would capitulate because they're more worried about others walkng than losing the uk

Should have been imperial... got auto corrected

I think, that setting aside his tone, he has held the government to account in a way that they have attempted not to be since elected

Bear in mind, were it not for a court case, there would be none of this as May's deal would never have been subjected to a vote

May has treated Parliament with contempt

Well aware how your system works. Just saying its a bit of an unusual system when a minority can win.

Did Hillary win a majority?

She gone

What do you mean by this? I'm not overly familiar, but what I've heard from her prepared speech she seems both very articulate and to have pretty strong convictions. A far cry from Trump's sometimes veering off into rambling grievances for very long periods of time.

Are you talking about non-prepared personal interaction or something?

Come on that's so vague as to be meaningless. Should she "think outside the box" and "find new paradigms" too? :)

Should she "think outside the box" and "find new paradigms" too? :)


She likely just realized that at the end of the day, it is what it is.

Actually, you don't know how the system works...Trump got a majority of electoral votes - 304 is greater than 227.

She is now

We've had:

Brexit means brexit
Strong and stable
A red white and blue brexit

She is / was a nightmare

Were were talking about individual votes, in which Trump received less than Hilary, not electorate votes.

But its a ridiculous point because that's not how the system works, so bringing it up is silly. All any POTUS candidate is trying to do is get 279 electoral votes, that's it.

Well aware of the electoral system in the USA. It was simply a comment that somebody can win the US presidency with a minority of votes. In many countries you need a majority of individual votes to win, which IMO would be a more representative form of democratic voting.

I agree a weakness is that she doesn't seem to have the interpersonal skills to press the flesh on an individual basis and use sheer force of personality to schmooze people into a common direction.

She's also not a master orator. But she's direct and clear, from what I've heard. It's easy to pick stumbles and flubs out of the speech of anyone who has to speak publicly a lot.

But since I don't tend to like the sorts of people who are good at that, I like May.

I think she's dreamy. Just a convenient foil to project all of the problem and issues of Brexit onto, as if the mess isn't a complete team effort across Britain.