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Old 08-11-2017, 19:06   #661
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Re: Government & Post Election Discussion
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Originally Posted by Damien View Post
The media and the opposition will always go after weakness in the government. The trick is how strong the government is, how much material they give them and how they act when something goes wrong. May seems unwilling or unable to take action.
Any action Theresa takes could make a difficult situation even worse. I'm amazed that she has managed to keep her show on the road, given the devastating curse that she seems to be trying to take her out at every turn. Terrorist events in her election campaign, throat infection at her party conference, EU negotiators being complete arses - just about everything you could throw at her is being thrown. Yet with grim determination, she moves forward, steadily, surely. She'd get a medal if she was on the battlefield.

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Originally Posted by Damien View Post
The media and the opposition will always go after weakness in the government. The trick is how strong the government is, how much material they give them and how they act when something goes wrong. May seems unwilling or unable to take action.

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Maybe she shouldn't have called the election and then taken the electorate for granted. It's the Government's fault we're in this mess and that Corbyn has a realistic prospect of getting into No 10. No 10 and the Cabinet seem to be in total disarray with Minsters going freelance if they're not backstabbing each other. Expecting charity from the opposition and media is naive.
That is ridiculous, with all due respect.

All the indications were that TM would sail home with a thumping majority, which would have given her the authority she needed to get on with Brexit. How can you blame her for taking advantage of that?

As it happens, the campaign was ill thought out by her advisors, and Jeremy was able to extract more votes out of the system by manipulating the young. Those were the two things that went wrong, so blame Theresa if you must, but you are aiming your accusations at the wrong person.
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