Evasive Theresa May seems unable to answer any question – especially on Trident
This Writer has been a little unwell over the weekend so I wasn’t actually able to watch Theresa May’s car-crash interview on Andrew Marr’s show this morning (January 22). From the responses on Twitter I missed a classic display of attempted evasion.
From what she didn’t say, she appears to have colluded in hiding the failure of a Trident missile test from MPs before they voted on renewing the rubbish nuclear weapons programme for hundreds of billions of pounds:
We've tested 1 Trident Missile in 4 years. We aimed it at Africa but it malfunctioned and headed for USA. Tories concealed this before vote. pic.twitter.com/59cNpdaRkb
— Tory Fibs (@ToryFibs) January 22, 2017
Theresa May just as good as admitted she knew about the failed Trident missile test that was hidden from MPs before the Trident vote #Marr
— Tory Fibs (@ToryFibs) January 22, 2017
Wow. PM if you're going to avoid a question that much you might as well say 'Yes I knew about the Trident test fail' #Marr
— Rhea Wolfson (@rheawolfson) January 22, 2017
Jeremy Corbyn had this to say about it:
Corbyn scathing on Trident 'malfunction' – "It’s a pretty catastrophic error when a missile goes in the wrong direction." #Ridge pic.twitter.com/s9txbwqZms
— Mirror Politics (@MirrorPolitics) January 22, 2017
And consider this:
If Theresa May won't tell Britain about a major #Trident test failure she won't tell us about total failure of #Brexit until it is too late.
— John Smith (son of Harry Leslie Smith) (@Harryslaststand) January 22, 2017
It is now clear that she definitely wants to turn the UK into a tax haven – to your (and my) disadvantage:
There you have it. Theresa May openly refuses to deny that she wants to turn the UK into a tax haven on #marr
— John McDonnell MP (@johnmcdonnellMP) January 22, 2017
Theresa May noticeably not ruling out UK becoming a tax haven for the rich and big companies. #brexit #marr
— david white (@davidwhite020) January 22, 2017
And she tried to pretend that her party’s ‘divide and conquer’ rhetoric was “bringing the UK together as a country” (we know the Scots and Northern Irish are desperate to leave):
No #TheresaMay we are NOT coming together as a country
We are falling to pieces with many people falling through the cracks!#Marr
— Nick (@Mylegalforum) January 22, 2017
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As I understand it she hasn’t ruled out many things that were not asked of her either, like she hasn’t ruled out standing for the monster raving loonies in the next election. Whilst I do not doubt the divide and conquer basis of this and the previous few governments to claim that Northern Ireland wants to leave the UK is saying that because some do all do, and the latest polls in Scotland show more people would vote no to independence than the last time.
Whilst it was warming the missle was not armed obvious good news for our enemies that we fire duds and whilst the rocket malfunctioned we still do not know if the war head would actually work if it ever found the right target. With so much new tech out there who is to say the launch was not targetted and taken out of action. Not a great advert for Trident and a terrible lack of transparency and openess from Muffer T….the peoples champion.
Well, here you have it, proof of this saying: “The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite! ” Tennessee Williams