Countdown to AreMaygeddon (the s.t.b. ex-PM thread)

[Blumf]

3/29 Blazit!!

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48385696

Theresa May with boxing gloves, battling Brexit

A fresh low from the BBC

[Dr Rock]

BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg says several cabinet ministers have said they expect Mrs May to announce her departure on Friday morning, although there has been no confirmation from Downing Street.

This morning?

[ajsmith2]

I'm calling it: a weary defeated rendition of Chas and Dave's 'There Ain't No Pleasing You' before collapsing backwards into a skip.

[Paul Calf]

I'm calling it: a weary defeated rendition of Chas and Dave's 'There Ain't No Pleasing You' before collapsing backwards into a skip life of unbelievable opulence funded largely by her husband's investments in companies that supply arms to vicious tyrants.

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/04/24/theresa-may-husband-investment-firm-made-financial-killing-from-bombing-syria/

[Huxleys Babkins]

GRANT GONE.

"Helen Grant, MP for Maidstone and the Weald, has announced her resignation on Twitter. She says:

Regrettably, I must now give notice of my resignation because I wish to actively and openly support one of the new leadership candidates and would not want there to be any perception of a conflict between the candidate's campaign and my role at CCHQ."

NOBODY KNOWS WHO YOU ARE.

[Cloud]

How long do you reckon before the headlines update to "May delays announcement of departure date"?

[Cuellar]

Didn't the 1922 duffers or whoever say she has to announce a 'timetable' for her departure?

So she can say, 'I can confirm that I will resign....just as soon as I have delivered Brexit' BANG back to square one

[Cloud]

Subject to the sealed envelope confirming that they're suspending the rules that currently protect her til the end of the year.  Knowing how stubborn she is, I reckon she'll call their bluff.... and the question is, is it one?

[ajsmith2]

Only just realised her husband shares a name with the lead singer of cult 60s R n B/Psyche outfit The Pretty things.

[bgmnts]

Set to make a statement now or is that old news?

[Cuellar]

Only just realised her husband shares  aname with the lead singer of cult 60s R n B/Psyche outfit The Pretty things.

Interesting! Funny that she goes by Mrs May and not Mrs Stock-Photo

[Tommy Robwatson]

She's expected outside No 10 at any moment, announcement coming.

[ajsmith2]

Interesting! Funny that she goes by Mrs May and not Mrs Stock-Photo

It's part of her Alamy settlement.. sorry that doesn't work on several levels. Best I could do.

[Cuellar]

It's alright mine was weak. I just found the idea of someone being called Alamy Stock Photo funny. It would be a funny name

[Huxleys Babkins]

Subject to the sealed envelope confirming that they're suspending the rules that currently protect her til the end of the year.  Knowing how stubborn she is, I reckon she'll call their bluff.... and the question is, is it one?

Possibly. Changing the VoNC rules to deal with a short term problem (she's got 7 months max), could (and knowing this pack of conniving cunts, almost certainly will) have serious consequences for the party further down the road.

[Tommy Robwatson]

She's had a whiff of the election results. Hence she's resigning the next day (that being today). Now!

[Paul Calf]

Damian Green:

He said: "Prime ministers come in all forms of personality. Perhaps inevitably, people at the moment are concentrating on the downside, but we have to remember the extraordinary sense of public service.

"And actually, in an era when political discourse has become so poisonous and vicious, she was always courteous, always polite.

"I think, the thing that I regard as the biggest tragedy, if you like, politically, is that she could never have the time and space to implement her domestic agenda - the attack on the burning injustices that she saw."

That is not a tragedy, you arse-kissing reptile. May's domestic agenda and her skill at implementing it would have been just as shit as her handling of Brexit.

EDIT: Add link https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-48394091

[greencalx]

Statement coming. She will not be resigning. Don't be silly.

[pancreas]

Of course not. That would be too reasonable.

[biggytitbo]

Looks like they're going to let her be PM for a few more months yet, presumably in exchange for her not attempting to bring any form of the Withdrawal act back.


"Don't waste this extension..."

[Cloud]

MAY GONE




For a quick pee before she starts her statement

[Tommy Robwatson]

She's fighting off the tears.

[idunnosomename]

It's alright mine was weak. I just found the idea of someone being called Alamy Stock Photo funny. It would be a funny name

I find watermarked Alamy Stock Photos intrinsically amusing, so please carry on

[Paul Calf]

The Independent seems pretty sure she's going to resign:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/theresa-may-resigns-new-prime-minister-brexit-eu-election-results-a8928111.html

[Cuellar]

Theresa May is making her statement. She says that she has striven to make the UK a country that works for the many, not the few

Ha! Did she really fucking say that?!

[Tommy Robwatson]

Friday 7th June.

She's had a sniff of the EU Election results.

[Sebastian Cobb]

Must be something important, they've got Billy Corgan to bring the podium out!

[sponk]

Amazing that she's gone on 99 pages.

[idunnosomename]

FRIDAY SEVENTH OF JUNE