Theresa May - Not up to the Job of PM?

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Completely work unsafe. Lots of rude words.

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Ken Clarke was known for his Hush Puppies, Boris Johnson for looking a mess. It is not an exclusive thing for women and their clothes to be highlighted but it is pretty poor for one female mp to have highlighted this when she would have been aware of the consequences.
 

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In respect of Trousergate the point is that (I agree) that it is totally irrelevant - but what I (and others) are asking asking about is more TMs reaction - it has been rather petulant and childish (how today's Times described it). As has her rather heavy-handed reaction to 'leaks' - which of course has been 'leaked'.

Was it TM's reaction, or is an overzealous aide plus spin from the media? I don't know either way and don't really care. Is she doing a good job? Brexit aside, which so many people have so many expectations for, I'm a tad disappointed.

She was my first choice, and I was pleased when she got the job but I'm a little underwhelmed by the governments performance.

That said, Corbyn, Farron or Sturgeon? Definitely not the first two! I don't like Sturgeon's politics but she's a damn fine politician.
 

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Was it TM's reaction, or is an overzealous aide plus spin from the media? I don't know either way and don't really care. Is she doing a good job? Brexit aside, which so many people have so many expectations for, I'm a tad disappointed.

She was my first choice, and I was pleased when she got the job but I'm a little underwhelmed by the governments performance.

That said, Corbyn, Farron or Sturgeon? Definitely not the first two! I don't like Sturgeon's politics but she's a damn fine politician.

Dont care for her, her politics or anything to do with her. She Scottish, and since she and her cohorts want to be rid of the Union I want her to have nothing to do with anything British or English.
 

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Yes she has got what it takes and is doing a good job. You seem to be struggling with the fact that she is not sending you an hourly update on Brexit plans but all will be revealed in the fullness of time.

On Brexit - as you seem to be fixated by my fixation with a Brexit Plan (btw - when I talk about a Plan I am NOT talking about what the government want to achieve - that is not a plan - these are objectives). Anyway. My point is that she is saying almost nothing about Brexit, and into that silence come various ministers and she slaps them down or puts out rebuttals to what they have said. That doesn't seem a very clever way of laying out objectives for Brexit.
 

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Dont care for her, her politics or anything to do with her. She Scottish, and since she and her cohorts want to be rid of the Union I want her to have nothing to do with anything British or English.

Except that when she talks about a separate Brexit deal for Scotland she is constantly reminded that Scotland is part of the UK and that the UK voted to Remain. And not quite sure what her being Scottish has to do with the price of eggs.
 

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On Brexit - as you seem to be fixated by my fixation with a Brexit Plan (btw - when I talk about a Plan I am NOT talking about what the government want to achieve - that is not a plan - these are objectives). Anyway. My point is that she is saying almost nothing about Brexit, and into that silence come various ministers and she slaps them down or puts out rebuttals to what they have said. That doesn't seem a very clever way of laying out objectives for Brexit.
Ministers accept enhanced salaries and must accept certain ways of working with collective responsibility. They can rightly expect to be disciplined if they go rolling around like loose cannons.
 

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Ministers accept enhanced salaries and must accept certain ways of working with collective responsibility. They can rightly expect to be disciplined if they go rolling around like loose cannons.

Indeed they shouldn't be loose cannons - but does not the fact that they are speaking as they are not suggest that maybe TM does not have a firm and steady hand on the tiller. She might do - we know where she is heading as she has said we will leave port - but where we are going and how we get there - well I am sure we will find out in time. I think she has to be careful as others may muscle her out of the way and take hold if they don't like her direction of travel.
 

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Very sexist coverage from all parts...

Bet Blair or Cameron don't get their suits in Top Man or their shirts from the market! Never mentioned.

Poor old Tre spends out on some leather strides and its front page!

My point is not what she was wearing; how much it cost; who pointed it out; who really cares - rather it was about TMs reaction - which as the Times newspaper said yesterday was just childish - just toys out of the pram petulance - not the reaction of someone with a skin thick enough to be a long serving PM.
 

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I think she's doing a fantastic job, in a very difficult situation. No PM has ever had the scrutiny and faced ridiculous legal challenges at every turn she makes. We at last have a PM who seems to want to do the best for the UK.
 

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My point is not what she was wearing; how much it cost; who pointed it out; who really cares - rather it was about TMs reaction - which as the Times newspaper said yesterday was just childish - just toys out of the pram petulance - not the reaction of someone with a skin thick enough to be a long serving PM.

Her reaction; or the aide's reaction? And as I said earlier, if that's the best that Nicky Morgan can bring to the debate then Theresa May has made the correct decision in excluding her from the process in my opinion.

And I suspect your real point was another cheap shot at the Brexit process.
 
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