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Theresa May has turned 10 Downing Street into her own private panic room
“Theresa May has proved to be the most inept Prime Minister and the worst leader of the Conservative party the UK has have ever had – even Chamberlain did, belatedly take steps to re-arm our military in the months leading up to WW2 (the Hurricane and Spitfire fighter planes didn’t grow on trees).” From a British friend of mine.
And she banned me from the country. Reason enough to go.
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The End of May
The Sun, May 23, 2019:
TEARESA Theresa May teeters on the brink after Andrea Leadsom quits over Brexit fiasco and Cabinet try to force her from power
Top-table Cabinet revolt leaves bleary-eyed PM nowhere to go
By Tom Newton Dunn, Political Editor, Steve Hawkes, Matt Dathan, Kate Ferguson and Martin Beckford, 23rd May 2019, 7:39 am
ISOLATED Theresa May was last night holed up in No10 amid an extraordinary Cabinet bid to force her from power.
Brexiteer Commons Leader Andrea Leadsom quit over the PM’s bid to offer MPs the chance of a second EU referendum.
A tearful Theresa May has been left isolated and holed up in No10
Andrea Leadsom arriving back at her London home following her resignationAndrea Leadsom’s letter of resignation
And seven other Cabinet ministers also told No10 they will not back Mrs May — a clear signal for her to step down.
But the PM refused to budge, with aides saying: “She is going nowhere until she gets Brexit done.”
On another day of high drama in Westminster;
Tory kingmaker Sir Graham Brady will tell Theresa May she must name her departure date on Friday or face being forced out by his powerful committee within days.
Labour chief Jeremy Corbyn refused to engage with the PM, telling her it would be pointless because “she only has a few days left in the job”.
Desperate Tory and Labour chiefs attacked Nigel Farage in a last-ditch bid to stop him trouncing them at the Euro elections, as the nation goes to the polls.
Senior ministers demanded meetings with the Prime Minister to tell her NOT to offer MPs a chance to vote on a second Brexit referendum – but she refused to meet them
Dozens of Tories – including previously loyal backers of Mrs May – say she has now run out of road and must resign as soon as possible and leave Brexit to her successor
The Chief Whip told party bosses she was not planning to stand down last night and instead will hold a crunch showdown with the Tory backbench chief tomorrow – after today’s Euro elections
Tory grandees pulled back from changing party rules so the leader can be removed immediately
The PM’s DUP allies warned she is leaving Britain at the mercy of the EUMrs May even refused a series of ministers’ demands for face-to-face talks, scrapping an appointment with Scottish Secretary David Mundell with ten minutes’ notice.
Former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith last night joked that Mrs May was virtually barricading herself in at Downing Street — saying: “The sofa is up against the door, she’s not leaving.”
Cabinet rebels are furious at Mrs May for saying the Government will legislate for a second referendum, insisting they agreed only to offer the Commons a vote on it.
One minister said: “It’s not just her intention of legislating for a second referendum. It’s also become a clear reality the PM is no longer getting a hearing, so someone else now needs to do it.”
After her resignation, Leadsom delivered a withering personal attack on Theresa May — accusing her of blowing Brexit and calling on her to quit “in the interests of the country”.
The PM’s ex-leadership rival reignited their long-running feud with a devastating letter to Mrs May while resigning as Leader of the Commons.
In it she came close to hinting Mrs May had lied to the Cabinet by failing to consult ministers, which saw a second referendum plan passed without their say-so.
It also emerged that 76 Tory MPs — a quarter of her party — are now vowing to vote down her deal.
Tomorrow the PM faces a crunch showdown with Tory kingmaker Sir Graham Brady.
He will tell her she must name her departure date by the end of the day — or face being forced out by his powerful 1922 executive committee within days.
Members had held a secret ballot on whether to change Tory rules to hold a fresh no confidence vote in her leadership, with their votes sealed in envelopes.
If she does not stand down, the envelopes will be opened by Sir Graham. One 1922 executive said last night there was “a clear majority” in the room for a rule change.
The senior MP added: “Theresa will have to go on Friday, whatever happens now.”
Former minister Tim Loughton was among Tory MPs who sent new letters to Sir Graham calling for her to go.
He even tweeted a photo of the addressed envelope, with the words: “Enough said.”
ANDREA’S THREE-YEAR WAIT FOR REVENGE
COMMONS Leader Andrea Leadsom was Theresa May’s rival for the Tory leadership — and her stinging resignation letter was her revenge served three years later.
Mrs Leadsom quit last night with a devastating attack on the Prime Minister’s latest Brexit climbdown and her handling of Cabinet tensions.
But it was just the boiling over of the simmering antagonism between the pair.
Mrs Leadsom, a former banker and married mum of three, had been a prominent Leave supporter in the referendum campaign. She stood against Remain-backing Mrs May after David Cameron resigned as PM in 2016.
The women made it to the final two but then Mrs Leadsom gave a disastrous interview in which she appeared to suggest she was a better choice for PM because she had children.
She claimed this meant she had a “stake in the future” by contrast with Mrs May who cannot have children for health reasons.
Mrs Leadsom, 56, told a newspaper back then that Mrs May only had “nieces, nephews”, adding: “But I have children who are going to have children who will directly be part of what happens next.”
She withdrew from the contest soon after the controversy and so cleared the path for Mrs May to enter Downing Street.
The new Prime Minister appointed Mrs Leadsom as her Environment Secretary only to demote her to Commons Leader in a reshuffle after the disastrous 2017 General Election.
Then last summer it emerged Mrs Leadsom had attacked Mrs May’s doomed Chequers plan — telling colleagues how she “hated” it for breaching Government red lines on Brexit.
Afterwards Mrs Leadsom did not quit the Cabinet but is believed to have been unpopular in No 10 for her hardline stance. Last month she made more waves by claiming that No Deal would not be “nearly as grim as many would advocate”.
Mrs Leadsom has also repeatedly clashed with Commons Speaker John Bercow. Last year she confronted him over claims he called her a “stupid woman”.
But, as Commons Leader, Mrs Leadsom has also been central in tackling the “Pestminster” culture of sexual harassment and bullying.
In 2017, Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon was forced to quit after she accused him of making lewd comments to her.
By Martin Beckford, Whitehall Editor
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20 Comments
4 years ago
She needs locking up in the worst jail we have, stuffed full of muslims and her remainer friends.
With her record of treason, nothing said about her is an insult.
4 years ago
Reply to
Poppey
Poppey….stop and think about this….Teresa May and Merkel do not have any children….there is not a protective instinct in their bodies….barren, bitter women are often worse than the most self aggrandizing men….they cannot nurture children nor a nation….
4 years ago
Reply to
Poppey
Well, she’s going, her departure long overdue and should never have been prime minister. She allowed in Muslims, some vicious, hate-spouting, jihad-supporting extremists, yet banned Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer and others, one, I think, Geert Wilders, all supporters of the West and democratic rights and freedoms. She said of Britain that it is “the country I love”. If she loves her country, why was she not enraged and motivated to take even draconian action both when finding out about Muslims grooming and raping 1,400 girls in Rotherham, hundreds more all over the country and against the authorities who covered for Muslims and kept quiet for fear of being accused of ‘Islamophobia’. Why was she not enraged after the Muslim murders and mass murders such as on Westminster bridge, the policeman in the grounds of parliament and the 22 murdered by a Muslim at a Manchester concert? And what of the actions she was behind in regard to Tommy Robinson. Will Attorney-General Geoffrey Cox now drop this disgusting case against Robinson or disgustingly carry on the Theresa May vendetta, in the process continuing to make a mockery of justice and specifically British justice? In respect of moral instincts this woman is destitute, her judgement just terrible.
4 years ago
Teraitor May was always a proud Remainer.
So – putting her in charge of Brexit?
Henhouse, meet Fox!
4 years ago
That woman is an embarrassment to women, to politics and to the history of England. The sooner she is thrown out the sooner the stench will go!
4 years ago
Women and children are what the most High sends you when you SIN.
4 years ago
May has just made an official statement outside Downing Street.
The dirty old slag is GOING!!!
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4 years ago
Reply to
Dave Glynn
Yahoo!!!!!
Some good news at last!!!!
Now we get to watch the rest of them shred each other to bits fighting for her job.
Let’s the games begin!
4 years ago
Reply to
evangeline golding
Whoever gets to be pm will only be there by default. The Tory party has all but collapsed and they’ve lost the respect of the people and labour just aren’t trusted so it’s
Time for a big change!
VOTE UKIP!????????
4 years ago
Reply to
Dave Glynn
On another subject, Sir David Protector of the Realm, when will the MEP election results be tallied and released? I have read Sunday.
4 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
Hello old friend!
I was wondering where you had gone. The results won’t be known until Sunday night because the results of all the other EU nations are to be revealed at the same time and I suppose it’s quite a big job (plus they need time to fiddle the results to their liking) hope it all goes down fair and square but I can’t help being suspicious. It Tommy wins we will have to organise an on line transatlantic celebration party????????????????????????????????????????????????????
4 years ago
Reply to
Dave Glynn
With May out of the picture, do you think that A-G Geoffrey Cox will continue pursuing the Tommy Robinson case? I haven’t the slightest doubt the Theresa May was behind the ‘witch hunt’ against him. Now gone the illusion I believe she had of being another Thatcher figure. The problem is, who were the people who put her in office? Anyone who put helped make her p.m. has no better judgement then her. So who is there to choose. Boris Johnson must have voted her him, but Jacob Reese-Mogg would not have done so. With bad leadership a people go astray. You better pray hard!
4 years ago
Reply to
Rob Porter
Good question Rob and I suppose it all depends on who takes over but it’s the whole establishment that want tommy to disappear and not just puppets like T May. I only hope the incoming pm is more of a patriot than The traitorous May and is not swayed by globalist opinion.
4 years ago
This is the woman who allowed thousands of young women to be sex-slaved by muslims and did nothing! Enough said.
4 years ago
May and her “twisted sister” Merkel have been a devastating horror for the UK and Germany. Good riddance to her and hopefully, soon, to Merkel.
4 years ago
Theresa might just have scuttled her party, perhaps for good.
Who or what will that mean next?
With such a disaster, she might as well have opened the door on 10 Downing street to Labor.
Will the Brexit party be next, meaning a way to the future for UK?
Perhaps to get through the Brexit mess, but I don’t think the Brexit party has any agenda besides just getting UK out of the EU. It would take time to develop any long term plans. Such is the way of victories and defeats.
If the UK ever does manage to extricate itself from the EU, and it looks like it will be akin to paying child support and alimony following a really nasty divorce, the EU will do everything it can to treat UK as an unfaithful spouse, probably even cozy up to the Russians and put sanctions on prominent people in the UK.
Betrayal never has any friends.
Over the course of European history, the British Isles were usually at odds with the continent.
This is probably the return to the former state, likely a trade war of one sort or another.
I think the people in the UK had just had enough, and the mass migration of refugees from the Middle Eastern wars was the straw that broke the camels back.
There is a tradition of freedom in England, going back to the Magna Carta. There was no such tradition on the continent, perhaps in Switzerland, but no where else that I’m aware of. The EU is turning into a typical European authoritarian state, (controlling!), and the UK and EU are at loggerheads about it. Better a clean cut rather than this tortuous rending which is obviously ripping the UK apart.
Poor Theresa May, left cowering out on the doormat clinging to the door. Better for her self respect of her and her supporters that she get up and walk away.
4 years ago
The spineless failure has at last gone. Siding with the equally loathsome and repugnant attorney general cox to eliminate free speech along with other degenerate like burcow, the house speaker.
But what will we get in return?
4 years ago
How the pictures are the same. While the victims of Islam are unprotected,
the criminals who “welcome” Islam hide behind thick bulletproof glass panes.
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