Tories Were Not Prepared For Snap Election, Says Theresa May

[jim360]

https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/government-and-public-sector/news/89351/excl-tories-were-not-prepared-snap-election-says

I bet she's right mad at whichever moron called it, then.

[mikey4444]

Baldric....its you that seems not to understand...read Jacks reply at 22:13.

I repeat....the buck stops with May, and she will pay the penalty for that, sooner rather than later.

[Baldric]

What about Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill, they seem to have fallen on their swords quite soon after the Election?

[Baldric]

Another one the does not understand how it works.

[naomi24]

//Her Majesty's Official Opposition//

That sounds rather highfalutin but then coming from a Prosecco socialist highfalutin it is not to be entirely unexpected. If that's the best on offer it's a depressing thought. How embarrassing. Poor queen.

[andy-hughes]

What a very strange observation from Mrs May.

She appears to be inferring that the electorate were 'not prepared' for the election, which rather infers that she believes that the electorate spend their time between election dates in some sort of coma, and were not woken up and steered in the correct voting direction in good time, and therefore managed to vote incorrectly, thus losing her party's majority.

That is a ludicrous and gross insult to the same electorate who are actually ready to vote in any election at five minutes' notice, on the basis that most of them have a view on their voting preferences that is ready to be exercised about one second after they open their eyes in the morning.

They certainly don't need to be prodded into action like so many somnambulistic sheep waiting to be herded into the right pen for securing a government majority.

Instead of blaming the electorate for 'not having enough time', Mrs May would be better apportioning the blame correctly, which is squarely at her own door for totally mis-reading the mood of the electorate, assuming their automatic loyalty without due cause, and concentrating the election campaign on telling everyone how fabulous she was personally, and being roundly disagreed with as a result.

Mrs May would do well to consult her Political Lessons Book, and probably Chapter One will be entitled something along the lines of 'Least Said Soonest Mended', read it, understand it, memorise it, stop digging, shut up, and get on with Brexit before she loses power through the level of hubris she has exhibited to date.

[goodgoalie]

Andy - did you hear your friend GH on Ken Bruce a couple of days ago? She was meant to be there to talk about 50 years of Radio 2, and her time as a presenter on the station, but guess what she mentioned? I thought of you!

[andy-hughes]

goodgoalie - tragically, I missed that, but thank you for bringing it to me attention.

I don't wish to divert jim's thread, but I am reliably informed that Ms. Hunniford has confirmed that she will confine mentions of her daughter's death to only the days of the week with a 'y' in them.