Theresa May - Not up to the Job of PM?

[SocketRocket]

I see the Prime Minister is refusing to take any press questions that haven't been vetted.

Together with refusing to take part in a leader's debate.

Should be concerning for all, even those that support her. This isn't healthy for democracy.

You Labour supporters are the only ones that need to be concerned, Jeremy is about to destroy your party and you know what, it's all your own fault for letting the party get out of touch with it's grass roots in favour of the Trots.

 

[larmen]

I see the Prime Minister is refusing to take any press questions that haven't been vetted.

Together with refusing to take part in a leader's debate.

Should be concerning for all, even those that support her. This isn't healthy for democracy.

A bit like Trump & Erdogan. That's what she learned from her state visits.

 

[User62651]

You Labour supporters are the only ones that need to be concerned, Jeremy is about to destroy your party and you know what, it's all your own fault for letting the party get out of touch with it's grass roots in favour of the Trots.

Good attempt at deflection but doesn't answer why May as a public servant feels she is suddenly above being asked a few unvetted questions by the great unwashed electorate, the same electorate that effectively put her in power by leaving Cameron defeated on Brexit. She called the General Election but wants a procession or coronation instead of a political discussion.

As a Tory voter do you not want to hear what she has to say on a multitude of things non-Brexit like tax, schooling, NHS, military, immigration etc etc or are you going to take the new manifesto as gospel, unchallenged?

 

[Old Skier]

Anybody a link to where she says that all her questions from the press are to be vetted, missed it as I was on a golf course.

Meanwhile Mr Corbyn refuses to say whether he would leave the EU if he became PM. It's on the BBC feed if anyone is interested.

 

[User62651]

Anybody a link to where she says that all her questions from the press are to be vetted, missed it as I was on a golf course.

Meanwhile Mr Corbyn refuses to say whether he would leave the EU if he became PM. It's on the BBC feed if anyone is interested.

Yep, bit odd to not firm up on that, maybe he hopes more of the 48% will lean his way come June given May's hard brexit intentions. Funny that originally Corbyn was the Eurosceptic and May was the Europhile, whatever hat fits clearly.

 

[Doon frae Troon]

One minute the over inflated property market is trumpeted as a disaster, then any correction is also a disaster. By the same people....

That tells me one thing, and its nothing to do with the property market, Brexit or a General Election

I experienced the late 1990's disaster when two of my staff handed back the keys to their proudly bought homes and another carried £30k of negative equity around like a ball and chain.
Might not have been a disaster to you but it was for 3 of my 30 staff.

 

[IanM]

I experienced the late 1990's disaster when two of my staff handed back the keys to their proudly bought homes and another carried £30k of negative equity around like a ball and chain.
Might not have been a disaster to you but it was for 3 of my 30 staff.

Nope. I reread my post 5 times and nothing in what I actually said is referenced in your reply. But no change there.

 

[SocketRocket]

I experienced the late 1990's disaster when two of my staff handed back the keys to their proudly bought homes and another carried £30k of negative equity around like a ball and chain.
Might not have been a disaster to you but it was for 3 of my 30 staff.

You do post some very odd things.

How can a fall in house prices force people to hand in their keys? If they took out a mortgage on the house they knew what the repayments were so how would a drop in the house value make them unable to afford the repayments, surely that would be due to increased interest rates and low wage increases. maybe you should have paid them more. The one with the negative equity would also have been no worse off unless he wanted to sell the house, anyhow the house prices soon increased again.

Regarding the current house prices they have reduced by 0.2% this year after record increases over the past 10. You are one of the people who have been moaning that house prices are too expensive for young people to get on the housing ladder. As I said, you do post some very odd things.

 

[SocketRocket]

As a Tory voter do you not want to hear what she has to say on a multitude of things non-Brexit like tax, schooling, NHS, military, immigration etc etc or are you going to take the new manifesto as gospel, unchallenged?

No I dont need to, I already know what her position is on those things, just like I know what Corbyn's stance is. Why would I want to see them in front of a selected TV audience. Complete waste of time.

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Nope. I reread my post 5 times and nothing in what I actually said is referenced in your reply. But no change there.

Sorry, it was aimed for that scoundrel Hobbit.

 

[Hobbit]

Sorry, it was aimed for that scoundrel Hobbit.

Dodgy character that Hobbit. Sorry Doon, not sure what point you're making or expecting me to answer.

If it's the issue of negative equity, it's well and truly already ongoing up here in Aberdeen. Our neighbours in Ellon sold a 5 bed house for £260k just before Christmas, which they'd bought for over £600k 3 years ago. It's only a loss when you sell. If people can wait for the market to pick up.

 

[Foxholer]

You do post some very odd things.

How can a fall in house prices force people to hand in their keys? If they took out a mortgage on the house they knew what the repayments were so how would a drop in the house value make them unable to afford the repayments, surely that would be due to increased interest rates and low wage increases. maybe you should have paid them more.
...

For (according to you) an ex CEO of a sizeable company, you show an appalling - or maybe simply biased - grasp of the Demand economy that is the Housing market! And, apparently, of maintaining business viability in a recession!

As for the guy with 30k of Negative equity, you were merely confirming what Doon stated! It was 'a ball and chain' that was carried by thousands. And 'soon' was actually 'a number of years', perhaps not a huge amount of time for those relatively unaffected by the effects of the recession, but a considerable/enormous drain on those Doon's posted about!

 

[ColchesterFC]

Together with refusing to take part in a leader's debate.

Should be concerning for all, even those that support her. This isn't healthy for democracy.

Has democracy only been healthy since 2010 when the first of these leaders debates were held then?

Was it also not healthy for democracy when Blair turned down election debates in 2001? Or since 1997 when Blair and Brown argued that the weekly PMQs were sufficient and a debate wasn't needed? I don't remember hearing a great deal of outcry about that. Or is it double standards by some who are looking for any excuse to have a pop at May and the Tories?

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Has democracy only been healthy since 2010 when the first of these leaders debates were held then?

Was it also not healthy for democracy when Blair turned down election debates in 2001? Or since 1997 when Blair and Brown argued that the weekly PMQs were sufficient and a debate wasn't needed? I don't remember hearing a great deal of outcry about that. Or is it double standards by some who are looking for any excuse to have a pop at May and the Tories?

The old politicians were not scared to debate with the public like May is..........what is she so frightened of?

Now being 'grilled' by Matt on The One Show:lol:

 

[larmen]

Maybe it needs a few 30 minute Paxman interviews with the party leaders.

 

[FairwayDodger]

Anybody a link to where she says that all her questions from the press are to be vetted, missed it as I was on a golf course.

Meanwhile Mr Corbyn refuses to say whether he would leave the EU if he became PM. It's on the BBC feed if anyone is interested.

This is one of the reasons labour is being squeezed out in Scotland. Indyref2 and brexit are the big issues and labour refuses to take a position on either. Just stupid.

 

[Old Skier]

The old politicians were not scared to debate with the public like May is..........what is she so frightened of?

Now being 'grilled' by Matt on The One Show:lol:

Are you realy saying that it's only May

 

[Old Skier]

This is one of the reasons labour is being squeezed out in Scotland. Indyref2 and brexit are the big issues and labour refuses to take a position on either. Just stupid.

It's not Labour it's just him and his inner circle. If Labour fails big style this time and him and his side kick refuse to go then it will be time for another party to rise from the Phynix

 

[FairwayDodger]

It's not Labour it's just him and his inner circle. If Labour fails big style this time and him and his side kick refuse to go then it will be time for another party to rise from the Phynix

The silver lining from this election must surely be the end of Corbyn but the question is whether someone equally hopeless will replace him.

 

[IanM]

Dodgy character that Hobbit. Sorry Doon, not sure what point you're making or expecting me to answer.

If it's the issue of negative equity, it's well and truly already ongoing up here in Aberdeen. Our neighbours in Ellon sold a 5 bed house for £260k just before Christmas, which they'd bought for over £600k 3 years ago. It's only a loss when you sell. If people can wait for the market to pick up.

A drop from 600 to 260 in three years? Something else locally must be in play or they'd trashed the place surely? that's mental.

According to web house prices in Aberdeen have fallen 10% per year on average, but that's pretty local...they are rising still in the South as demand outstripping supply