|
|
Post by Handyman on Mar 8, 2024 7:57:16 GMT
Former prime minister Theresa May has said she will be standing down as an MP at the next election.
In a statement, she said she had taken the "difficult decision" to vacate her Maidenhead seat after 27 years.
Championing causes close to her heart such as human trafficking and modern slavery had been taking an "increasing amount of her time", she added.
|
|
|
|
Post by Pacifico on Mar 8, 2024 7:58:52 GMT
Good - the woman responsible for the 2 most damaging pieces of legislation in the past 20 years.
Pity she didn't leave earlier.
|
|
|
|
Post by Handyman on Mar 8, 2024 8:12:07 GMT
I have no hard feelings towards her at all, I am fed up with all of them from both sides of the House
|
|
|
|
Post by wapentake on Mar 8, 2024 9:25:50 GMT
I have no hard feelings towards her at all, I am fed up with all of them from both sides of the House i agree,but she wasn’t nicknamed Mayhem for no reason. |
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2024 10:35:59 GMT
She's probably got some fields of wheat she hasn't run through.
Election fever is getting to those Tories. They know they are on a loser and Maidenhead will be Labour next year.
|
|
|
|
Post by andrewbrown on Mar 8, 2024 11:17:30 GMT
I'm no Teresa May fan at all, but unfortunately she was undone by the lunatic fringe in her party. To make it worse they then took over the party. At least she tried, and still tries, to stand up to it. Ultimately she failed.
Will always be remembered for the Windrush scandal.
|
|
|
|
Post by Handyman on Mar 8, 2024 11:36:56 GMT
The Windrush Scandal was Labours failure to keep an accurate record of those who arrived including children in the 40's , what records they did make have been lost misplaced !!!! or destroyed that is what has caused the confusion all these years later
|
|
|
|
Post by Pacifico on Mar 8, 2024 11:44:50 GMT
I'm no Teresa May fan at all, but unfortunately she was undone by the lunatic fringe in her party. To make it worse they then took over the party. At least she tried, and still tries, to stand up to it. Ultimately she failed. Will always be remembered for the Windrush scandal. What lunatic fringe? - she resigned because she failed to come up with a Brexit agreement that could command the support of the Commons. |
|
|
|
Post by andrewbrown on Mar 8, 2024 11:46:05 GMT
I'm no Teresa May fan at all, but unfortunately she was undone by the lunatic fringe in her party. To make it worse they then took over the party. At least she tried, and still tries, to stand up to it. Ultimately she failed. Will always be remembered for the Windrush scandal. What lunatic fringe? - she resigned because she failed to come up with a Brexit agreement that could command the support of the Commons. Exactly, because the ERG in her own party voted it down. |
|
|
|
Post by Pacifico on Mar 8, 2024 11:48:43 GMT
What lunatic fringe? - she resigned because she failed to come up with a Brexit agreement that could command the support of the Commons. Exactly, because the ERG in her own party voted it down. as did the rest of Parliament... I would remind you that 70% of MP's at that time were Remain supporters. Had they wanted to they could have voted anything through - the ERG amounted to less than 50 votes. |
|
|
|
Post by piglet on Mar 8, 2024 11:54:56 GMT
She and Bercow stabbed the country in the front over brexit, goodbye to bad rubbish. She cried over her resignation saying she loved this country, oh really. Is betrayal ok?
|
|
|
|
Post by andrewbrown on Mar 8, 2024 11:54:59 GMT
That's because you are only thinking of Brexit, but wider politics were at stake. Unfortunately for May she had gambled and lost on increasing her majority, having a confidence and supply agreement with the DUP. The only thing that was being addressed in parliamentary time was Brexit, so any votes that went against the government had opportunity to bring the government down. Hence everyone voting against it other than the Tories. When you have no majority, losing 50 votes of your own is a disaster.
Even with the current government majority of 48, they can only afford to lose 24.
|
|
|
|
Post by Pacifico on Mar 8, 2024 11:59:02 GMT
Politicians have a bad enough rep anyway without you encouraging them to renege on their principles for party advantage.
I'm glad that some stood firm and voted for what they believe in - if only more behaved the same.
|
|
|
|
Post by piglet on Mar 8, 2024 12:05:53 GMT
I was going to say that, wider politics were not at stake, brexit was. You cant sacrifice one thing for another, chaos ensues.
|
|
|
|
Post by bancroft on Mar 8, 2024 15:01:03 GMT
May's husband was a senior Banker and the UK had a lot of financial clout in the EU.
Also he has a certain look of someone so perhaps he has roots in Eastern Europe and would be anti-Russian.
May's govt more or less sealed Abramovich's fate at CFC.
I think she genuinely saw the UK's interest in staying in the EU due to our financial industry so she tried to hoodwink us over Brexit.
|
|
