After Salzburg we thought it couldn’t get worse for Theresa May. It did
Theresa May: She looks like a horse, bridling at the EU’s rejection of her plan.
Faced with an absolute refusal of her useless ‘Chequers’ plan from the EU, Theresa May has doubled down on her own position – with a public statement that piles embarrassment upon humiliation.
She said this:
"I have treated the #EU with nothing but respect, the #UK 🇬🇧expects the same," said @theresa_may Friday,
Her statement comes a day after EU leaders rejected her #Brexit blueprint at a summit in Austria 🇪🇺 pic.twitter.com/3Z9RR3y1TD
— FRANCE 24 English (@France24_en) September 21, 2018
And this:
The EU should be clear: I will not overturn the result of the referendum. Nor will I break up my country. pic.twitter.com/fYhIgGWV1Q
— Theresa May (@theresa_may) September 21, 2018
I don’t often swear on This Site but I am sure you will understand me when I say: What a bag of sh*t.
What was she trying to achieve with this broadcast? One look at the two Union Flags behind her and you’re thinking of nationalistic pride. Defiance, perhaps? “Britain stands alone”? The “Dunkirk spirit”?
But this is not defiance. This is petulance.
And it is stupidity:
Threatening no-deal is like the cowboy in Blazing Saddles who says “give me what I want or I’ll shoot myself” #SalzburgSummit #TheresaMay
— Richard Corbett (@RichardGCorbett) September 21, 2018
https://twitter.com/UKDemockery/status/1043130533906210816
Commentators from all sides have piled in to pour ridicule on Mrs May’s latest attempt to appear strong:
https://twitter.com/MattTurner4L/status/1043128686164279296
“Theresa May demands respect from EU in negotiations”
Hmm…
Why should EU respect Mrs May? She has insulted them; she has come to the table unprepared; she has asked for the impossible.
And now she *demands respect*?— Tom London (@TomLondon6) September 21, 2018
She did insult them; she said she would be a “bloody difficult woman” – right, Angela Rayner?
It is clear from the start when our PM told the EU that she was going to be a ‘bloody difficult woman’ that things were not going to go well. That performance at Downing Street proves to me why negotiations have failed & she has put our whole economy at risk. She should resign.
— Angela Rayner 🌹 (@AngelaRayner) September 21, 2018
Right. Tom Pride has put her behaviour in a nutshell:
Who is so stupid they are still planning to vote for this bunch of clowns?#ElectionNow#BrexitShambles pic.twitter.com/V7enj7l2Px
— Tom Pride (@ThomasPride) September 21, 2018
Is that respect? No.
Her demand that the EU propose a solution to Brexit’s insoluble problems is laughable.
So #theresaMay tries the tired old trick of blaming Brussels. But it’s the UK that’s walking out, took 23 months to come up with a flawed proposal, wants the EU to change its rules to lessen the problems for us, and now the PM complains that the EU isn’t proposing solutions!
— Richard Corbett (@RichardGCorbett) September 21, 2018
The EU did not vote to leave the UK. It is not the EU’s job to put forward the UK’s plan for leaving. It is their job to negotiate what the U.K. put forward.
— ALASTAIR CAMPBELL (@campbellclaret) September 21, 2018
So, what are we to conclude?
Theresa May basically just said that more then 2 years after the Brexit referendum & despite Liam Fox, secretary of state for international trade saying an EU trade deal would be “one of the easiest in human history” she and her Government have proved incapable of agreeing one
— Peter Stefanovic (@PeterStefanovi2) September 21, 2018
My snap judgement on May's deranged statement threatening the EU with No Deal. The Tories could disintegrate in office – weakening both the economic and security interests of the United Kingdom… pic.twitter.com/WZfRrsnBr9
— Paul Mason (@paulmasonnews) September 21, 2018
PM #Brexit plan rejected by EU leaders, rejected by many on both wings of her party,rejected by business,rejected by the vast majority of voters too,but she is to carry on down the same path. This is a PM who cannot get any deal,it's time for her to resign it's gone on too long.
— Angela Rayner 🌹 (@AngelaRayner) September 21, 2018
People keep saying thet ‘feel sorry’ for the Prime Minister.
We need a clear-sighted leader in No 10, not an object of pity
— Andrew Adonis (@Andrew_Adonis) September 21, 2018
https://twitter.com/JJenkinsSJB/status/1043127960084066304
Theresa May is the author of her own Brexit humiliation:-
– Triggers Article 50 too early
– Calls an unnecessary election which she lost her majority
– Bribes DUP with £1billion
– Wastes 2 years to produce an unworkable plan
– Stubbornly refuses to budge from her Chequers plan— James Melville 🚜 (@JamesMelville) September 21, 2018
My goodness what an embarrassment you are @theresa_may
— Rachael Swindon (@Rachael_Swindon) September 21, 2018
The only thing I want to hear in a statement from the Prime Minister is that she’s calling a general election. Time for a government #ForTheMany
— Dave Ward (@DaveWardGS) September 21, 2018
Cameron took a reckless gamble with the future of the UK.
He lost – then cut & ran.
We now have an incompetent PM – who is in office by *default*
The Govt is split – and the Country teeters on the brink.
Time for a General Election.— Clare Hepworth OBE (@Hepworthclare) September 21, 2018
That seems clear.
Leaders and representatives of other political parties had their say, too:
The Prime Minister’s Brexit negotiating strategy has been a disaster.
From day one, @Theresa_May has looked incapable of delivering a good deal for Britain.
The political games from both the EU and our Government need to end because no deal is not an option.
— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) September 21, 2018
WATCH: First Minister Nicola Sturgeon brands Chequers 'dead as a dodo'.
More here ➡️ https://t.co/hManJv1sBc pic.twitter.com/tjj42EkU2y
— STV News (@STVNews) September 21, 2018
2/ the only remotely workable way to do Brexit is to stay in the single market and customs union. If PM not prepared to do that, Brexit shouldn’t happen. ‘No deal’ or ‘no detail‘ Brexit simply not acceptable – especially for Scotland, where we did not vote for this.
— Nicola Sturgeon (@NicolaSturgeon) September 21, 2018
For someone who claims she will not break up "her country," #TheresaMay is doing a good job of breaking up the country.
— John Smith (son of Harry Leslie Smith) (@Harryslaststand) September 21, 2018
PM's speech was pathetic, painful & petulant.
We are at an impasse – but it was predictable. You can't leave a houseshare & demand to keep a key.
Only way forward is #PeoplesVote. The harder May resists it, the more popular it gets & the more precarious her position appears.
— Caroline Lucas (@CarolineLucas) September 21, 2018
It hasn’t all been condemnation, though. Look at the state of this Express headline:
Saturday’s Daily EXPRESS: “May’s Finest Hour” #bbcpapers #tomorrowspaperstoday pic.twitter.com/VTgr0d9jAM
— Allie Hodgkins-Brown (@AllieHBNews) September 21, 2018
The facts tell a different story, though:
While the right-wing media tell you Theresa May is strong and stable after all, the new Thatcher, & whatever arse kissing effort Dan Whatsisname came up with, I’ll point out the Pound crashed 1.3% versus the US Dollar to $1.31 and 1% against the Euro to €1.11 – a 12 month low.
— Rachael Swindon (@Rachael_Swindon) September 21, 2018
This is true. Every time Mrs May opens her mouth, she makes the entire country poorer.
And Britons living in the EU remain in limbo. What will happen to them? Or don’t they count to Mrs May?
Add it all up and the effect of her little speech is not Churchillian but evokes lines from Shakespear instead:
“A tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
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Strong and stable leadership, oh look a pink pig flew past the window just now, time to find things to replace the tory and looking at how they behaved over the last few weeks there is a solution, Mannequins, plenty have shops have closed under there rule, there is no shortage of these about, still employment is going up despite all these closures, next election theme by the way is tory, the party that tells the truth, oh come on it is true, there brilliant I hang on every word they say trying not to laugh, perhaps they need re-branding, a consultation with the raving loony monster party and Saatchi and Saatchi, re branded tory party, suggest somehow fit the words clown, posh, unreal, out of touch and useless in might work or am I being cynical, front run it with bj, gm, ids, and the rest along with a pretty red bus and what do you have the party of clowns
‘nor will I break up my country. ‘
Yet her Party’s policies have broken up the country. The country is more divided than ever, lacking in social care; housing is unaffordable; wealth transference and inequality at an all time high; student debt unpayable; the ill and vulnerable trampled on,
The Tories are good at abstract nationalism especially when it has nothing to do with the reality on the ground.
May’s ridiculous and childish posturing is matched only by her sheer unadulterated arrogance.
Tusk behaved like a first year schoolboy, he rejected chequers without even reading it, the EU have made zilch progress in the negotiations, May didn’t react strongly enough she should have said fine you don’t want to negotiate goodbye.
How do you know Donald Tusk didn’t read the Chequers plan? Were you there?
It is the UK that has made no progress in the negotiations – because it is the UK that needed to move forward. The EU has a position and is sticking to it.
I cannot recall the Chequers output was entirely her work….the rest of her useless cabal was also in attendance putting this disaster paper together. Credit where credit is due. Good news is that Italy is about to undergo a financial implosion that might even result in there being no EU left worth joining……very little in the globalist media on the Italy issue so guess as usual just wait until the nasty stuff hits the fan.
Theresa May may think she’s treated the EU with respect, but she is incapapble of any empathy with the responsibilities of membership of any club. She has also grossly misinterpreted the result of the Referendum by ignoring its purpose as advisory and hence ignores all those 12M (28%) who did not vote, whatever their reason (only 37% of the [reduced] electorate voted to leave; 63% of us did NOT vote to leave) on top of the criminal lies that UKIP supporters deliberately spread around (£350M for NHS). She and most of the cabinet are in dogmatic denial of widespread opposition to their disastrous Brexit plans but mainly because it’s the only way they can legally hold onto power (which we all know absolutely leads to corruption). Long past time for the Tories to join the monster raving loonies in the wilderness!