Irish gunner wrote: Lots of rumours that the Queen or Philip is dead.
Lots of rumours that the Queen or Philip is dead.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39801908
She is a Gooner afterall.
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They call her "The Submarine"
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Glad we've got a decisive leader to take us into the Brexit negotiations.
Anyone watch her One Show interview? WOW! I cringed so hard on the boy jobs girl job so bit.
Watching British politics right now is a bit like watching a new season of The Thick of It.
At the same time, if the result is as forecast - https://yougov.co.uk/news/2017/05/15/voting-intention-regional-breakdown-apr-24-may-5/ - she'll have played a blinder.
I find her troubling, she's incredibly calculating but I don't necessarily think she's incompetent. I just don't know what she really stands for.
I don't really know what to make of her either but the Tories have latched onto the whole stable strong leadership angle and I think it's working. She's the only one with any real credibility as a leader.
Personally think she lacks credibility and competence, and it will start to show more deeply over the coming weeks.
It's a classic Lynton Crosby campaign from the front—make the leader a small target with a comfortably nationalist aura. Seize on and manage the public reaction to current events via strong links with the press.
No particular disrespect to May as an individual, but her campaign seems to have decided she doesn't have the chops for a series of TV debates or articulating bad Tory policies with charisma.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/11/opinion/theresa-mays-vapid-vision-for-a-one-party-state.html
“every single vote for me and Conservative candidates will be a vote that strengthens my hand in the negotiations for Brexit.”
Why exactly? I don't see that she has any of the traits of a top negotiator.
Black magic is my best guess.
The UK could hardly have a weaker hand in the negotiations, it's bleak.
The starting point is the country having voted to give away a bunch of regulatory affordances it will now desperately negotiate to have back, probably at a huge price.
We have no hand to play with the EU and when the other sides knows what cards you hold there's no point bluffing. What I'm hoping she means is that it will strenthen her hand within her own party and she can fuck over the Eurosceptics in her party. That's probably giving her way too much credit though.
On a different note, Corbyn's manifesto sounds ace. Really hope they can show that it is fully costed and get some real enthusiasm behind it. It would be quite funny seeing the likes of the Mail trying to spin issues that benefit their readers into negatives if it wasn't actually a massive hindrance to progress.
goon wrote: We have no hand to play with the EU and when the other sides knows what cards you hold there's no point bluffing. What I'm hoping she means is that it will strenthen her hand within her own party and she can fuck over the Eurosceptics in her party. That's probably giving her way too much credit though.
That's pretty much what most people hope.
At the moment she has a small majority so hardliners have disproportionate influence on policy. It's something Dodgy Dave suffered from as well.
http://metro.co.uk/2016/07/14/us-official-sniggers-as-he-finds-out-boris-is-foreign-secretary-6005660/ https://uk.yahoo.com/news/sikh-worshipper-admonishes-boris-johnson-talking-alcohol-temple-133159148.html
The Tory manifesto is bleak. I mean Jesus, they've not even tried to wrap it up with shiney wrapping paper to distract us. Seems like it's relying entirely on a faux tough stance on immigration to convince people to vote for her, that and the fact that she's the strongest and most stable candidate to lead us into the end of times.
They can do whatever the fuck they want now. They're still going to win. I really don't understand Tory voters.
