Theresa May's time is up

[Pickman's model]

 

[Casual Observer]

 

[Cid]

Kind of hope she does cling on... Comes up with brexit deal, tries to sell it. Gets no-confidenced.

I mean, fine, an election every couple of years is getting into the territory of the ridiculous. But it would be interesting.

 

[frogwoman]

Maybe the tories will stagger on with the DUP with her in charge and do as much damage to themselves in the next few months as possible

 

[SpookyFrank]

I almost hope May clings on so that her ultimate downfall can be all the more catastrophic. Her place in history as a byword for comical failure is already secure.

 

[LDC]

What fool would want her job atm?

 

[Teaboy]

I almost hope May clings on so that her ultimate downfall can be all the more catastrophic. Her place in history as a byword for comical failure is already secure.

Oh fuck! I thought I had it covered but I May'd it all up.

 

[Pickman's model]

downfall

someone must have made a downfall thing about the election

 

[LDC]

someone must have made a downfall thing about the election

It's exactly what the genre was started for.

 

[Fez909]

Can't wait for the Tories to tear themselves apart over this. Obviously we won't see it (they keep their shit hidden, mostly). But knowing it's going on is enough

 

[SpookyFrank]

Lynton Crosby spotted at a layby on the A38 holding a cardboard sign reading: 'Will mastermind election campaigns for food.'

 

[Pickman's model]

What fool would want her job atm?

 

[SpookyFrank]

"Someone order a fool?"

 

[billy_bob]

True ruthlessness would be refusing to allow her to resign as the punishment for losing.

Well yes, the would-be successors would be far wiser strategically to let her deal with the next shitty 12 months, then swan in and bask in the comparative competence and likeability that'll reflect on them as a result.

 

[rutabowa]

I could be wrong but I don't think Boris Johnson is quite the popular draw that he would have been a few years ago. I'd be very happy if they chose him to be leader, I sure he would absolutely fuck it up extremely badly.

 

[Pickman's model]

I could be wrong but I don't think Boris Johnson is quite the popular draw that he would have been a few years ago. I'd be very happy if they chose him to be leader, I sure he would absolutely fuck it up extremely badly.

yeh, and he'd be plagued with heckles about the £350m wherever he went. he'd lead them to glorious defeat.

 

[SpookyFrank]

I could be wrong but I don't think Boris Johnson is quite the popular draw that he would have been a few years ago. I'd be very happy if they chose him to be leader, I sure he would absolutely fuck it up extremely badly.

The tories will have to look elsewhere in their pool of popular, affable, well-adjusted and charming characters I suppose.

 

[Teaboy]

The tories will have to look elsewhere in their pool of popular, affable, well-adjusted and charming characters I suppose.

Yes and then come together and get behind whomever they choose.

 

[billy_bob]

The tories will have to look elsewhere in their pool of popular, affable, well-adjusted and charming characters I suppose.

Dear God please let them choose Jacob Rees-Mogg.

 

[phillm]

They are saying on the telly that the old bag has already done a deal with the Unionist, so it does look like that prediction might be right and she will, yet again, sacrifice the greater good so that she can grimly hold onto her tattered robes of power. If not for Brexit, the Tory's dogs of war would have stripped her naked and cast her out into Whitehall by now. Unfortunately, I don't think anyone has an appetite for taking on the inevitable fuckup the EU talks will now be. Its also worth remembering that this poisoned half witted witch (described rather brilliantly as a vindictive librarian drawn by Quentin Blake) only got the job because they had no one else to do it. I don't see a path for her being ousted any time soon, despite that being an appalling conclusion.

 

[AnandLeo]

Did Theresa May carry out a risk assessment before calling a snap election, I wonder?

 

[SpookyFrank]

If May's real aim was to 'crush the saboteurs' then she is now duty bound to crush herself.

 

[DotCommunist]

she's going to limp on, looking like a mug. If she see's out the year then she's staying

 

[Fez909]

General election 2017: May strikes deal with DUP to form UK government - live

The former education secretary, Nicky Morgan, has called on the Conservatives to look for new leadership in the long run.

Morgan, who has made no secret of the fact that she’s no fan of Theresa May, says it’s right for the prime minister to stay on and seek to form a government. But she can’t fight another election and should take responsibility for the Conservatives’ flawed campaign, Morgan said.

She told me: “I’m reeling. I think we’re all reeling. I think there’s real fury against the campaign and the buck stops at the top.

“I think she should stay for now, but I think she won’t fight another election – and I think eventually, whether it takes weeks or months, we will have to look at the leadership.”

 

[not-bono-ever]

she's going to limp on, looking like a mug. If she see's out the year then she's staying

it is going to kill her. literally

meanwhile, the country will start its 2 year crash and burn project

 

[Dogsauce]

poisoned half witted witch (described rather brilliantly as a vindictive librarian drawn by Quentin Blake).

Soubry is definitely one of Blake's creations.

 

[Dogsauce]

Time for someone to start a 'Boris Johnson's time is up' thread as a placeholder.

 

[taffboy gwyrdd]

Are they really going to do this? It seems they are.

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Why can't LK employ her skills of helping run internal coups this time around?

 

[chilango]

she's going to limp on, looking like a mug. If she see's out the year then she's staying

Of course she'll limp on for now. Let's not forget that the last Prime Minister limped on after revelations that he'd fucked a dead pig's head in the mouth became public.

 

[Pickman's model]

Soubry is definitely one of Blake's creations.

how prescient blake was