Theresa May has led her government into something it cannot survive: Ridicule
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Worse still was what came next: The mockery of the general public.
This Writer just spent an enjoyable evening watching the people of the United Kingdom picking their government to pieces.
While I wait for the announcement that Priti Patel has been sacked…
Politics is full of hyperbole, but if Priti Patel stays in her job beyond today think its fair to say we effectively don't have a PM.
— Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani) November 7, 2017
… (Theresa May will never go for Boris Johnson) I thought I’d offer you the chance to see for yourself:
Has there been a British PM so weak, with less authority than Theresa May?
She clings to her post just as long as it suits Murdoch & Dacre— Tom London (@TomLondon6) November 7, 2017
https://twitter.com/ScouseGirlMedia/status/927654499572965376
Theresa May has cancelled the cabinet meeting because she can’t face Boris Johnson & Priti Patel.Theresa May in power but not leading. #weak
— Nadeem Ahmed (@Muqadaam) November 7, 2017
What would be a more suitable Foreign Secretary than Boris Johnson?
— Owen Jones (@OwenJones84) November 7, 2017
Priti Patel should resign
Boris Johnson should resign
Theresa May should resign
This government, the whole damn lot of them, should resign.— Mike Chamberlain 💙 (@mikechamberlain) November 7, 2017
'If proof that May could not govern were sufficient to make her give up, she would have stopped by now' https://t.co/C9aOFbCPoz
— Ian Dunt (@IanDunt) November 7, 2017
The big argument against the EU — that it removes power from our elected representatives — is starting to look like a plus
— Robert Harris (@Robert___Harris) November 7, 2017
There are days when I think I'd personally do a better job than any member of the current government. I call those weekdays.
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) November 7, 2017
And let's be straight. The behaviour of @patel4witham going unpunished shows that @theresa_may fears the £350m bus brigade. #ZeroAuthority
— Rachael Swindon (@Rachael_Swindon) November 7, 2017
Confidence in the PM to get a good deal in the Brexit negotiations has fallen to 26%. New low.
via @ORB_Int https://t.co/F9BcfjYmjG pic.twitter.com/uwf12Xai1i
— Britain Elects (@BritainElects) November 7, 2017
This cabinet has successfully normalised complete bloody incompetence https://t.co/gAFuBxmzyh
— Peter Stefanovic (@PeterStefanovi2) November 7, 2017
Foreign Office became aware of Priti Patel Israel trip on Aug 24 says @AlistairBurtUK But no one told PM until last week.
— norman smith (@Thehackandhound) November 7, 2017
Because she is now considered totally irrelevent ? https://t.co/zKIrzKYLY1
— Clare Hepworth OBE (@Hepworthclare) November 7, 2017
Foreign Office now say it's "absolutely not true" that Boris Johnson said Zaghari-Ratcliffe was teaching journalism. Here's the transcript. pic.twitter.com/uPHwfykdEy
— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) November 7, 2017
May is a control freak, as she showed clearly when Home Secretary.
As PM, she is unable to control.
A control freak without control is PM.
— Tom London (@TomLondon6) November 7, 2017
The Pritti Patel story shows how paralysed May is. Patel misled the country. There can be no clearer reason to resign or be sacked.
— Chris Bryant (@RhonddaBryant) November 7, 2017
May had the chance to sack @BorisJohnson but she hasn't got the spine. She can't even run her party, let alone the country. #ZeroAuthority
— Rachael Swindon (@Rachael_Swindon) November 7, 2017
Senior Conservative MP: "Boris is an f****** disgrace & if he had an ounce of integrity – which he doesn't – he'd have walked immediately."
— Michael Crick (@MichaelLCrick) November 7, 2017
The only thing keeping Boris in office is the support of Murdoch and the Barclay Brothers – non doms Theresa May dare not disobey https://t.co/0CLv5uxiBa
— Peter Jukes (@peterjukes) November 7, 2017
Boris should have been sacked the moment he joked about dead Libyans. The fact that he's still here says a lot about our PM. Weak.
— Aleesha 🇵🇸 (@a_leesha1) November 7, 2017
She need people to do the jobs badly & that’s exactly what she got people who do it badly
— Ian Davies (@IanTheInventor) November 7, 2017
A UK Cabinet member meeting with PM of another country without even first running it past UK's PM is proof of loss of authority of UK's PM.
— Richard Burgon MP (@RichardBurgon) November 7, 2017
Boris Johnson says he will visit Iran in next few weeks
— norman smith (@Thehackandhound) November 7, 2017
Can we send someone more capable? Mr Blobby? Pingu? A terrapin sourced from a local primary school? A gone off slice of Brie? An amoeba? https://t.co/RdhYI6rEDY
— Owen Jones (@OwenJones84) November 7, 2017
As the fab @KateOsamor said, "Rather than changing the minister, the PM has decided to change the ministerial code". This govt is shambolic.
— Andrew Fisher (@FisherAndrew79) November 7, 2017
So many members of the Cabinet ought to resign that none of them can. It's like the Three Stooges trying to get through a door.
— Hugo Rifkind (@hugorifkind) November 7, 2017
.@theresa_may If you're planning to do that by sending Boris Johnson, I foresee difficulties.
Why not just resign & call a general election?— Mike Sivier (@MidWalesMike) November 7, 2017
https://twitter.com/seanjonesqc/status/927853338208755712
Labour have just tabled 30 questions to Government on Priti Patel’s Israel trip, which must be answered next Monday. They scent blood.
— Kevin Schofield (@KevinASchofield) November 7, 2017
https://twitter.com/James4Labour/status/927962786457686019
Can @Number10gov confirm that as @patel4witham trip to Israel was a holiday and not approved Govt business that no expenses will be claimed?
— Matt Thomas (@Trickyjabs) November 7, 2017
Priti Patel discussed splashing our aid budget on the Israeli army on her “holiday” and No 10 have just found out and haven’t sacked her.
— Owen Jones (@OwenJones84) November 7, 2017
Today feels significant. Stone cold sackable offences committed by Patel & Johnson but a strong sense that May's too weak to touch them.
— James O'Brien (@mrjamesob) November 7, 2017
https://twitter.com/Wirral_In_It/status/927827739503136769
I may be being a little unkind to Priti Patel. Who amongst us hasn't been on a short family holiday and stumbled into 12 work meetings?
— Paul (@PaulOnBooks) November 6, 2017
https://twitter.com/RobDotHutton/status/927958065390981120
A strong Prime Minister would’ve sacked an incompetent buffoon of a Foreign Secretary and a freelancing International Development Secretary pic.twitter.com/cTN19fGYPZ
— Andrew Gwynne MP (@GwynneMP) November 7, 2017
The Prime Minister’s patience with Priti Patel is almost exhausted. If it turns out there is anything else about Israel trip she hasn’t revealed, she’s toast, I am told
— Robert Peston (@Peston) November 7, 2017
No piece of toast has ever lied, toast serves a useful purpose, toast has brought huge happiness. Comparing Priti Patel insults toast. https://t.co/s4Mltjv0B5
— Owen Jones (@OwenJones84) November 7, 2017
Israel has the 5th highest military spending (as % of GDP) of any nation – and Priti Patel says it should get our aid money? Sack this clown
— Andrew Fisher (@FisherAndrew79) November 7, 2017
So I am hearing that Priti Patel is likely to be sacked within hours. That would be two cabinet ministers gone in a week.
— Robert Peston (@Peston) November 7, 2017
Still about half a dozen short… https://t.co/k2rl3ymwoL
— Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani) November 7, 2017
.@lucianaberger Do you honestly think this fiasco of a government will last another two weeks? .@WOWpetition .@38_degrees
— Mike Sivier (@MidWalesMike) November 7, 2017
So I am hearing that Priti Patel is likely to be sacked within hours. That would be two cabinet ministers gone in a week.
— Robert Peston (@Peston) November 7, 2017
PM clearly stung by claims she is losing control. Cant sack Boris, so is opting for Priti Patel https://t.co/ucsokHFWgw
— Sunny Hundal (@sunny_hundal) November 7, 2017
Apparently it is not the first time Priti Patel has broken protocol in secretly meeting foreign leaders abroad without appropriate disclosurehttps://t.co/xvZjUDUu21 pic.twitter.com/P2xdmdWhrw
— Miqdaad Versi (@miqdaad) November 7, 2017
https://twitter.com/BootstrapCook/status/928024575065120769
— Ben Davies (@ben_benjamin3) November 7, 2017
I'm reading tweet after tweet, all saying the same thing: .@theresa_may is WEAK. She must GO. So must her government. #weakandwobbly
— Mike Sivier (@MidWalesMike) November 7, 2017
https://twitter.com/liamyoung/status/928020162741186560
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Without doubt ridicule is something which May and her cohorts can not recover from. I would also state that it is something which the Tories can not survive either and the longer they cling on by their fingertips the harder will be their eventual fall. I do hope that isn’t just wishful thinking.