James O'Brien resists the widespread 'Theresabilitation' of former PM | LBC 

She was a monster as Home Secretary. I moved to the UK from Australia in 2006 to pursue my dream career. I was here on an Ancestry Visa thanks to my English-born grandfather. In her obsession to get rid of all foreigners from the UK, she was looking into abolishing the Ancestry Visa and sending everyone who was legally living in the UK on that visa back to where they’d come from. I was reading the papers every day to be up to date on this obsession of her’s. The “GO HOME!! YOU’RE NOT WELCOME HERE” mobile billboards and her threats of abolishing every visa known to humanity gave me and every other legal immigrant sleepless nights. After almost 10 years building a life in the UK, I was expecting a letter to arrive giving me 1 week to “quit the United Kingdom” - something she did to thousands of workers when she abolished the Tier 1 visa. (I spoke to an Indian gentleman who had lived in the UK for 30 years on a Tier 1 visa and was given 1 week to go back to India.) She’s an uncaring monster devoid of any trace of humanity.

Reminds me of Thatcher. The only time she showed any emotion was for herself - on the day she was kicked out of Downing Street.

As Home Secretary, she really was the one who started the hard line against all forms of immigration.....the language and intent all changed, two faced and hateful.

May was the leader of the Nasty Party and achieved nothing that benefited the population asa whole. As a vicar's daughter you could be forgiven in thinking that the Christian tenet of 'love thy neighbour' might have seeped into her psyche through osmosis - but no - a sense of compassion was obviously absent in all of her actions. Glad to see the back of her!

I remember her patronising that nurse stating there is no money tree.She then magically found some to buy the DUP after calling a disastrous election.

'I took the tough choices' - Teresa May Yes you did. But you didn't suffer from those choices did you.

Absolutely none of us should feel sorry for Theresa May.

NOT FORGET THE HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT!

She cut the Police force numbers. Beyond comprehension to anybody normal.

“No one is as bad as Boris Johnson”, apart from all those who enabled, promoted and allowed him to ever hold high office!

I remember when Thatcher looked out the car window all teary eyed. Seeing May get all upset after her resignation, I reminded myself of the river of tears shed because of her party for decades. Despite being a softie myself, I wasn't the slightest bit moved, just the same as with Thatcher. Crying when it is game over. For themselves.

i remember my feelings of disbelief , then utter disgust the first time i saw those 'go home' vans around London

"Hostile environment " "Citizens of nowhere" "Red, white, and blue Brexit." Nuff said, methinks.

How low have we sunk - "not as bad as Boris Johnson" is now the high point of recent political leadership!

Five prime ministers in eight years. That is worse than the manager turnover at Chelsea! Is it any wonder we are in such a mess.

Cruel & Nasty as a Home Secretary and lacklustre as Prime Minister and tepid as a back bencher.

One of several terrible Theresas. Coffey, Villiers, May, seems like an innocuous catholic name into which all the bile of the tory party has been concentrated.

Moderate Tories were deluded to believe any Brexit referendum would be fought on facts . Cameron suggesting a referendum was the time for moderate Tories to say no.. For May to say no. For Ken Clarke to say no. Instead they put party first to stop labour winning in 2015. And then moaned about facts playing little part in the referendum when it was too late.

I hope she has plenty of time to contemplate the unrepairable damage she has committed to this nation and it's people.

She was horrible

One word: Windrush.

No room for anything but contempt for a totally useless PM.

Today is International Women´s Day, and then to be reminded of May, Truss and Thatcher. Also the possibility of Badenoch.

I'll try to help you James. Don't forget Theresa May entering into a Faustian contract with the DUP on behalf of the UK government.

There should be no rehabilitation for her....ever

She was a weak prime minister who couldn’t make a decision for herself. She relied on Fiona Hill and Nick Timothy way too much, and unfortunately for her they were a combination of inept and arrogant. They made the lives of everyone working in Downing Street an absolute misery, and they deserve all they got at the end. No sympathy for May whatsoever. Her lack of ability was catalyst for Boris becoming PM, and look how that turned out for the country.

Her hostile environment deported black brits. People died because of it.

EXACTLY 👏 THANK YOU FOR SAYING THIS ❤. I won’t feel sorry for her at all, the evil she carried out, why would I feel sorry for her?

And some people still wonder why so many people in Scotland want to leave the UK and be an independent country.

How can you feel sorry for her? This is a woman who ran through fields of wheat in full knowledge of the fact that the farmer didn’t like it!

Hostile environment, go home vans, Secret deportations without due rights to appeal of Windrush and West Africans etc ... all her delightful legacy ... She set the benchmark of nastiness for Smirk Patel and I have a sadists dream Braverman. Job well done, not.

We don't have a magic money.... Oh hold yes we do for any tory to dip into when ever they like.... Thank you robotic May for that 🤔

Key architect or all our misery ..... NEVER VOTE TORY

How she treated Grenfell residents ending fom, windrush lying to the police federation, the magic money tree

I can't forgive her for the "Hostile environment/society" policy which absolutely ushered in the overt racism and xenophobia of today's UK political debate. Truly a despicable person.

Don't forget her odious involvement in the Windrush scandal.

Her resignation is DEFINITELY NOT A DISTRACTION FROM MICHELE DOLAN

The only thing going for Teresa May is she isn’t Cameron, Johnson, Sunak…or Liz feckin Truss.

Quite right. Hostile environment, anyone? "Hostile environment has fostered racism and caused poverty, according to IPPR report" Guardian, 03/09/2020

Theresa is always overlooked for her importance as the world's first semi functional AI robot prime minister

all of those were "not as bad" as Johnson only in the sense that they are not as personally incompetent. All of them are as economically incompetent and as desparate to fill the pockets of their backers.

I would certainly not hold Trump's hand. You don't know where it's been.

Will never forget her hostile environment policy - she can get in the bin, I will never feel sorry for her.

It was Simon Brodkin who gave her her P45 but the thing that will always make me despise her is the Windrush scandal

Dont forget the dementia tax during the 2017 election. The introduction of alternative facts when T.May claimed the cat allowed a person to stay in the UK.

She’s going before she’s pushed nothing more.

"There is no magic money tree" Unless it's for dodgy PPE for your mates company which appeared over this past weekend with only £200 capital invested. In which case, have £200 million quid and a life peerage!

Greetings from Ohio State keep up your great work!!!

Horrible horrible public servant , one of the worst Home Secretaries ever who sent crime soaring. Useless PM and with what came later that’s some indictment

James: "Nobody is as bad as Boris Johnson". Liz Truss: "Hold my beer".

This person invoked Article 50 on 29 March 2017, formally notifying the EU that the UK government intended to withdraw. Without any plan for what future arrangements would be made in their place. And as Home Secretary from 2014, institutionalised the hostile environment. These decisions were a choice made, not forced or coerced.

She dumped her own views, and moral barometer to keep political power, and to paraphrase Johnson.... Spunked it all up the wall.

If (like me and my wife) you are on the receiving end of sensible Theresa May's breaking up of British families because some had the nerve to marry a foreign spouse...you will struggle to have anything but contempt for May, how she conducted herself in politics and the baleful legacy of her ideas.

Oh shes the one who lived in a stable

There was the Steve Bell cartoon with the orange feet and leopard print shoes sticking from under a duvet. It was worth 5 trash prime ministers just for that. I'm still laughing.

I stubbed my toe the other day,one of those where you think you've snapped your toe off and I thought "it wasn't as bad as Boris Johnson".

For everything they have all done when in a position to improve the lives of everyone and not just enrich themselves nothing is deserved except contempt, and Palpatine's daughter is no exception.

Never achieved anything, just took us further down the road to poverty.

Many thanks James. You have reminded me just how bad Theresa May was as a Home Secretary and Prime Minister.

They don't care about the public, so why should the public care about them. ?

Put the fork away, James! It's dangerous to talk about the Tories with a sharp object close at hand.

My favourite insult from fiction: "My wish is that you find someone to mourn you when you are gone" - Caduceus Clay Savage......

to be honest, I cannot get the picture of her dancing on stage to an ABBA song. i'm still getting counselling after this episode

The Windrush debacle!!!

The magic money tree

Remember the resignations under her premiership ? And they haven’t stopped 😂

At least she cheered up the uk with a dance that showed how out of touch the tories are. Even sturgeon was a better dancer or even stephen hawkins could win a disco comp against her.

Dnt forget da dance.....😂

You say Theresa May , I say POINTLESS

Say what you like about May,she knows when to go.

Trying to reinvent herself as a statesman. She was pathetic.

Watching the devil on James' shoulder get into a punch-up with the angel on the other side is always so funny to see

AGREED WITH ALL.

Windrush!

Another rotten apple in a barrel full of rottenness.

Glad to see the back of her hope she takes her great pal, Therese Coffee with her

You're a biscuit; James, a Nice one!

her responce to grefill said all u need to know

It could have been worse, it could have been Andrea Leadsom.

The big beads round her neck..what were the really for

Remember the £9,000 brown leather trousers...

she got rid of section 44!

She also had a shocker of an interview on The One Show with Mr May.

Ive had to live outside of my home country the UK with my wife because MAY change the rules.

May presided over Windrush - awful person

Remember her reply when asked “but what does Brexit mean?”

You want to know how Braverman came to be ...I point you in the direction of the seed that was Theresa May.

14yrs of Tory Misrule what do you have to do to the English to get rid of the Tory’s. A Nation of Masochists ruled by Tory Sadists.

“Donald Trump’s Orange Paw”🤣 8:50

She was lucky not to be sectioned over her Brexit performance imho.

She was flipping ghastly, not being as bad as rabies or bubonic plague is a low bar.

Oh dear ,what a shame, how sad…

I can never forget her for “no more EU nationals jumping the queue”

It's a matter of comparison. I thought Theresa May was terrible until Boris. I thought Boris was the worst you could get, until Truss. I'd still stand by that on a ranking scale today. It's being unable to make this comparison between people, that lead to a certain commentator spending all of his time bashing Corbyn, when the alternative to him on the table was Boris.

I hate any justification that's based on "At least they're not as bad as...", because it's using the wrong frame of reference. We shouldn't judge something, someone or ourselves by comparison to something or someone worse. That's just apologetics. Don't compare down, compare up to someone admirable and inspirational. A high comparison baseline is the route to improvement, a low baseline is an excuse.

Don't forget the "seven burning injustices ". So politicians do know precisely what is wrong with their country, they do not live in a bubble. She did nothing, nada, zilch...

I have nothing but scorn for Theresa May. She knew the disaster Brexit would cause and pushed it as being in British interest anyway.

Deals to help her husband make money through arms deals, deporting Windrush generation etc etc, how long have you got?

As a Labour supporter, I think that May did NOT believe in Brexit. She tried to block it. Cameron lit a fuse that the government is still trying to extinguish! ...When can (any government?) How long will it be before we have a coherent government and opposition can work towards rejoin? I will celebrate if Labour become the new government and the Lib Dem's are in opposition!

"Orange paw" made me laugh out loud