The 2017 General Election campaign

[danny la rouge]

Has anyone considered the possibility that May might be unwell in some way?

Yes. But why not tell us? Why leave us thinking she's just incompetent?

 

[DotCommunist]

Yes. But why not tell us? Why leave us thinking she's just incompetent?

you don't show weakness in that game D. And thats how poor health would be viewed.

 

[Cid]

On the illness thing, it's not as if she's been doing nothing; she's been (obviously) to Plymouth, Bath yesterday. She's quite competently going around doing what she does best; rattling out prepared lines while looking down at people (she's fucking good at that, i mean she's only 5' 6"). She does have diabetes and that may, may be affecting her, but fuck - she has very good docs, and she's been dealing with it for her period as HS and PM.

they must have stuck a podium in for that Bath video.

 

[danny la rouge]

On the illness thing, it's not as if she's been doing nothing; she's been (obviously) to Plymouth, Bath yesterday. She's quite competently going around doing what she does best; rattling out prepared lines while looking down at people (she's fucking good at that, i mean she's only 5' 6" but she can appear as though she's heads over a factoryload of blokes). She does have diabetes and that may, may be affecting her, but fuck - she has very good docs, and she's been dealing with it for her period as HS and PM.

I know several people with type 1 diabetes (which is her type), and while it's obviously a serious condition, they know how to manage it. One even runs marathons. And, as you say, she's the fucking PM! She'll have access to the best medical advice going!

 

[Wilf]

'Ladies and gentlemen, I have a short statement: the Prime Minister has the shits. She's been on the Arret Melts all night, but was worried she might leave an impression on the Woman's Hour chairs'.

 

[danny la rouge]

you don't show weakness in that game D. And thats how poor health would be viewed.

Depends what it is.

 

[Wilf]

Ooh, it's official(ish):
Theresa May ducks out of Woman's Hour interview- sending a sub on!

 

[Pickman's model]

'Ladies and gentlemen, I have a short statement: the Prime Minister has the shits. She's been on the Arret Melts all night, but was worried she might leave an impression on the Woman's Hour chairs'.

A stain on her reputation

 

[Smangus]

The world's fallen out of her bottom.

 

[brogdale]

Ooh, it's official(ish):
Theresa May ducks out of Woman's Hour interview- sending a sub on!

The leadership succession hots up.

A BBC source says that Woman’s Hour bid for Theresa May and was told by the Conservatives that she wasn’t available. The broadcaster had been planning for the last few weeks to air an interview with Amber Rudd, the home secretary, on Friday. But a last-minute substitution of Justine Greening, the education secretary, has now been made.

 

[danny la rouge]

That's the reason! She's just proud of her team! I knew there'd be a simple explanation!

 

[Bernie Gunther]

Yes.
I'm beginning to wonder what stories will be revealed when she's replaced after June 8th. I'm loath to say so, but maybe she is struggling with stress-related MH issues?

She seemed to go really flaky just after the Manchester attack.

Maybe she really did sign off on an MI5 risk assessment for sending a bunch of Mancunians, including various members of the Abedi family, off to Libya to train as Islamist-terrorists by way of overthrowing Qaddafi?

 

[brogdale]

She seemed to go really flaky just after the Manchester attack.

Maybe she really did sign off on an MI5 risk assessment for sending a bunch of Mancunians, including various members of the Abedi family, off to Libya to train as Islamist-terrorists by way of overthrowing Qaddafi?

No-one else could have done tbf.

 

[Pickman's model]

The leadership succession hots up.

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Didn't know you had to bid for may, like she was some malign lot in a vile auction

 

[Wilf]

Is it too early to be thinking about the music for her state funeral?

 

[Wilf]

The leadership succession hots up.

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Kremlinology.

 

[Pickman's model]

Is it too early to be thinking about the music for her state funeral?

Everybody dance now

 

[chilango]

She'll make it to the QT Special though right?right?

 

[Pickman's model]

Is it too early to be thinking about the music for her state funeral?

She will have a funeral as grand as mozart's

 

[binka]

I see Corbyn announced his Brexit team today - Starmer, Thornberry and Gardiner.

Surely those three come across as much more capable than Johnson, Davis and Fox? Keir Starmer was just in C4 news - think that's the first time I've seen him on tv during the campaign.

 

[billy_bob]

margaret thatcher was cremated and is buried in the grounds of the chelsea hospital. Margaret Thatcher's ashes interred at Royal Hospital Chelsea - BBC News

Yeah, to prevent exactly the eventuality I described, if you ask me

 

[Pickman's model]

I see Corbyn announced his Brexit team today - Starmer, Thornberry and Gardiner.

Surely those three come across as much more capable than Johnson, Davis and Fox? Keir Starmer was just in C4 news - think that's the first time I've seen him on tv during the campaign.

Not saying much, is it. Pick three people at random off the streets and they'd do a better job than jdf

 

[mauvais]

This is obviously it. Her minders give her stock phrases to say, which she repeats with diminishing relevance when the questions change, she only gets to meet handpicked people, and she won't even do a radio show that Corbyn's already done.

Her media training seems to have consisted of one thing and one thing only: to laugh disparagingly whilst shaking her head. It must have taken serious Rocky-style investment to get it properly nailed down, and yet at best only half of this little set piece works on radio, so I'm not surprised she's bowed out of that one. The telly has the opposite problem - you can't have the security-cleared cat whisperer run in to feed her more orphan livers every time she pulls it off successfully.

 

[binka]

Not saying much, is it. Pick three people at random off the streets and they'd do a better job than jdf

True but if the last week is going to be all about Brexit the question of who you want negotiating for Britain might not go how the tories expected

 

[Pickman's model]

True but if the last week is going to be all about Brexit the question of who you want negotiating for Britain might not go how the tories expected

Johnson shouldn't be on the team, he's pathological. He's there so he gets shafted and isn't going to try to topple tm.

 

[agricola]

True but if the last week is going to be all about Brexit the question of who you want negotiating for Britain might not go how the tories expected

Especially if she's unlikely to turn up. In fact this whole election may just have been an exercise in avoiding two months of negotiations, if she wins we'll probably have another foot and mouth outbreak preventing all ministerial cross-channel travel, which will probably be followed by the country being placed under an interdict or the raids of the North-men making the sea unsafe.

 

[mauvais]

Especially if she's unlikely to turn up. In fact this whole election may just have been an exercise in avoiding two months of negotiations, if she wins we'll probably have another foot and mouth outbreak preventing all ministerial cross-channel travel, which will probably be followed by the country being placed under an interdict or the raids of the North-men making the sea unsafe.

No deal is better than a bad deal, remember? See also: WarGames' "the only winning move is not to play". So like that but with bendy bananas instead of modem sounds, and probably lots more irradiation by the end of it. Or just staying in the house with the curtains closed throughout the entirety of Article 50's expiration hoping that Broderick will sort it.

 

[Beermoth]

Wow, what is going on?

Theresa May died on the way back to her home planet.

 

[bemused]

Good greif that Tim Farron interview was as awful as people said it was.

 

[redsquirrel]

She'll make it to the QT Special though right?right?

She pulls out of that and I might start to join the "Corbyn might do it" believers, that would look absolutely fucking terrible.