Following on from the #TheresaMay denial-fest of a book, I see now #LizTruss is wriing an account of her 49 days at the helm of the country....

possible titles:

Asleep at the Wheel?

I will be proved right?

They were all against me?

or perhaps:

I am Liz!

“Formidably present, poised for action, deep of thought and grave of manner, sensitive to the ironies of life, vast and small. Not the leader we knew at all, in other words. But a lovely portrait.”

Or maybe #TheresaMay as she is now, with the wisdom of hindsight?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/06/theresa-may-portrait-brexit-saied-dai?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

It says a lot about the #Conservatives when people praise an awful PM for not being as bad as her successors.

David Henig 🇺🇦 @davidheniguk
Not going to be joining any #TheresaMay as underrated PM takes. Her secretive approach infected government badly in a way it still hasn't recovered from, the initial two advisors were catastrophic, handling of Brexit rarely coherent.

Not as bad as her successors is a low bar.

@TriciaScott

Back in 2002, #TheresaMay warned that some people were referring to the Tories as the #NastyParty, and that much work needed to be done.

She then implemented the Hostile Environment policy, which lead to the rise of the BNP, UKIP, David Cameron wooing them and promising a referendum on EU membership, and Boris Johnson's facile championing of #brexit.

It's now obvious what May wanted was not just some, but all people referring to the Tories as the #NastyParty.

[Moconomy] summarises how super wealthy backed think tanks and the ERG (party within a party) steered #Brexit after the #EURef to become the disastrous hard Brexit that the UK has today and which only a minority of wealthy elitist special interest groups will benefit from
https://youtu.be/1ldfpUW0cEk
@Frances_Coppola #ukpol #RichardTice #BorisJohnson #NigelFarage #EU #NorthernIreland #TheresaMay #coup #DavidGauke #SoniaSodha

Rebels
Fighting hard, their
Bills to alter,
Slavery to prevent,
Help!

#theresamay #toryrebels #smallboatsbill #slavery #help #cinquain #poetry

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/sunak-braverman-small-boats-illegal-migration-b2376713.html

https://www.commonwealthroundtable.co.uk/commonwealth/from-windrush-to-climate-justice-joining-the-dots-for-the-future/

#Caribbean #ClimateJustice #DavidCameron #History #HostileEnvironment #KingCharlesIII #QueenElizabethI #Reparations #Slavery #SlaveryReparations #TheresaMay #Windrush #WindrushScandal #Windrush75

#BenJennings on #UK’s tradition of #AI #leaders – #cartoon | Opinion | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2023/jun/08/ben-jennings-on-uks-tradition-of-ai-leaders-cartoon

#Politics #Satire #TheresaMay #BorisJohnson #LizTruss #RishiSunak

In #UKGeneralElection2017 the #Conservatives won a dozen seats in #Scotland in addition to the just one they had held in 2015. This was enough - just - to enable #TheresaMay to stay in office by an arrangement with the #DUP.

So if #labour were to take an extra twenty seats in #scotland it could be enough to offset #VoterSuppression and enable a majority government.

#TheresaMay lost a ruling majority by only sporadically participating in a general election she didn't have to call, but CHOSE to because she thought it would improve her majority.

Then couldn't rally support in a party full of Brexiteers for the Brexit deal her own Brexiteers negotiated, so was forced to quit.

@UKLabour @theresa_may @borisjohnson @trussliz @RishiSunak @conservatives

Theresa May seems to have carved out a role for herself on the backbenches as 'thorn in the side' of government.

#Migration #ModernSlavery #TheresaMay

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/28/uks-migration-bill-will-force-traffickers-underground-says-may

Former national leaders #BorisJohnson, #LizTruss, and #TheresaMay have all stepped back from power, but remain active in their respective backbenches.

#Tories #UKParliament #UKPolitics
https://www.pmp-magazine.com/2023/03/28/boris-johnson-liz-truss-theresa-may-and-soon-nicola-sturgeon-the-strange-backbench-lives-of-former-national-leaders/

#BenJennings on #RishiSunak’s ‘immediate justice’ scheme – #cartoon | Opinion | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2023/mar/26/ben-jennings-on-rishi-sunaks-immediate-justice-scheme-cartoon

#UK #Politics #Satire #LizTruss #DavidCameron #BorisJohnson #TheresaMay

@LauraKT

I have since found out that the process of detailed discussion and scrutiny in the House of Commons will be curtailed to an abnormal and unusual extent. There will not be a bill committee but a committee of the whole house - and an unusually short timetable ahead of the third reading.

This puts a lot of pressure on dissident #Conservatives like #TheresaMay - but also will mean more trouble later on in the #HouseOfLords!

Thought this was a nice comment from #TheresaMay about #NicolaSturgeon
#Politics #Scotland
https://twitter.com/theresa_may/status/1625830583808008192?t=Rm-D6bMqkcitcJBMrfZCsA&s=09

Presumably #TeamJorge is one of many such influence operations.

Why are governments, democratic governments silent and passive on the issue?

During Brexit we were told that then PM #TheresaMay refused to let MI5 even investigate this.

@jaycee

There used to be some decent ones - wrong-headed, sure but #johnMajor #roryStewart #theresaMay and others were at least honest

Even on the #right they were not #corrupt like their modern equivalents - I can't see #enochPowell being sacked for #corruption (moral corruption, sure - but not putting his hand in the till.....)

#Tories policy: child abuse, trafficking, prostitution...

#TheresaMay's hostile environment

#SuellaBraverman must resign.

"Dozens of asylum-seeking children have been kidnapped by gangs from a Brighton hotel run by the #HomeOffice in a pattern being repeated across the south coast..

"A whistleblower, who works for Home Office contractor #Mitie & child protection sources describe children being abducted off the street outside the hotel and bundled into cars

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/21/revealed-scores-of-child-asylum-seekers-kidnapped-from-home-office-hotel

#MI5 another failing element of the British state. This should put #BorisJohnson and #TheresaMay under investigation.

"MI5 repeatedly refused to investigate evidence that an alleged Russian spy was attempting to cultivate influence with senior #Conservative politicians and channel illegal Russian funds into the party, a Tory member has alleged in a new complaint lodged with the investigatory powers tribunal (#IPT).

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jan/21/mi5-refused-to-investigate-russian-spys-links-to-tories-says-whistleblower

#Russia #espionage #Tories #RussiaReport

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/06/suella-bravermann-plans-to-ditch-key-windrush-pledges

#Windrush #HomeOffice #BrokenPromises #SuellaBraverman #PritiPatel #TheresaMay #HostileEnvironment #BlackMastodon #BlackBritain