She made some mistakes, but I actually believe had the circumstances been better she would have made a decent prime minister. The successors to that office have been woefully underwhelming, lacking even a shred of decency and competence.
The issue I take with her and this is less of a personal issue of her but rather an issue with politics in general is that she never tried to work with labour to fix the whole brexit mess. Had the moderate parts of labour and the tories worked together on brexit they could have ignored the extremes on both sides. I think immediately after the very narrow vote there should have been a cross party commission to determine what Brexit actually means and what form of Brexit is actually in the interest of the people.
@@sebastiang7394 Labour had little genuine desire to work with her, as they groomed Corbyn as a "Prime Minister in Waiting". She had Labour doing that, and elements in her party that wanted a complete break from the EU with a wrecking ball approach. She, like John Major, inherited a mess and tried to do the best she could with it.
@@scottmcginn2169 She didn't inherit a mess, she put herself forward as the hero of the hour. "What Brexit needs is a bloody difficult woman" was her comment on the matter. She was utterly delusional!
History will skip @@oenjielsvansoekamadjoe7405 History will skip truss, you'll need to look in the Guinness Book of Records to confirm that she was the shortest serving UK PM 🤣🤣🤣
2019: Surely they couldn't choose a PM worse than May. 2022: Surely they couldn't choose a PM worse than Johnson. 2022: Surely they couldn't choose a PM worse than Truss. 2023: Surely they couldn't choose a PM worse than Sunak. Her premiership suddenly doesn't seem so bad.
@@DecernererInitium when your party is facing potential political wipeout at the next GE, you should be implementing more effective measures to either stay in power, or damage limit. Sunak hasn't help set out any measures for the cost of living crisis every one from working class to upper middle is facing, he's gone back on parts of the Net Zero campaign with banning sales of new fossil fuel vehicles later than previously stated. He was most as the forefront when stating how many prisoners were walking the streets when labour were in charge, when the prisoner escaped Wandsworth a few weeks ago.
@@HenryLobber Economists who also get things wrong and have very little experience of growth or business. That said, the budget was wrong as it ignored the debt. Your comments on Boris are rather over the top.
I’m closer to socialism than to conservatism. I think TM blundered enormously during the Grenfell Tower tragedy: not visiting the victims. That said I trusted her as a sincere politician, that she brought seriousness to her political career and to her constituents.
@@BossySwan She made him a minister, elevating him to a position where he could credibly become a viable PM candidate. She did this fully knowing that he had previously been sacked for lying.
Of course it would. Partygate would have happened under ANY PM. It's a culture within the civil service that allows such things to happen. A degredation of which has occurred over several years.
@@0w784g- Partygate was allowed to happen because of Boris Johnson's 'it's all a jolly jape, chaps' attitude to everything. He encouraged drinks and celebrations at any opportunity, so his staff just went along with it.
Wasn’t a good pm but not as sociopathic as boris nor arrogantly ambitious like truss. I like her, she seems quite witty and engaging, and very principled. Boris is funny, however May has no apparent sociopathy like Boris. Never knew she liked cricket - she and Sir John Major have that in common.
It's easy, the British wanted Brexit to be done without causing a cost-of-living crisis. Well actually a good number of British didn't want Brexit, but would have wanted it to be done with if it was destined to happen anyways. These two make up a large majority of the population since while the remainders didn't want to leave, they didn't want to be in limbo. May could not get Brexit done without imploding the British economy. it was simply impossible to do unless some other country was willing to write a huge cheek to Britain and say "here's a gift, pay your next 3 decades of imports, it's on us." Her task was doomed to fail. Maybe she should have campaigned to be PM on cancelling Brexit? I don't know if she could have won the leadership election at all if she did, but at least she'd have an excuse to not go through with a doomed task. Likewise Cameroon could have admitted it was a non-binding advisory referendum, but he didn't feel comfortable implementing it, so he'd ignore the result. It would destroy his political career and credibility, but a decade later people would probably say it was the best response to a self-induced crisis. As long as May tried to get Brexit done, she was going to be seen as a disappointment.
This woman was almost too nice to be Prime Minister. She was never going to be allowed to succeed because i have a sneaking suspicion she may actually be a good person, and that won't do in politics.
The most important things we learnt from May is you can scrape the mold off jam and it's naughty to run through wheat fields, that about sums up her premiership.
@@chickenpie113 We are where we are because she didn’t actually do Brexit, probably because a lot of parliamentarians were for many years on the lavish Brussels payroll. She connived with the Eu to fudge the negotiations. She sold out the northern Irish. It’s ironic when Boris campaigned to became PM and promised to get Brexit done properly, the public overwhelmingly voted for him. The 52 / 48 compromise thing is nonsense. You don’t lose a vote then expect the winners do otherwise. Sadly the establishment aided by remain civil service connived to frustrate the whole Brexit process.. You couldn’t deny it. Trust in politics and the conservatives is gone because of Theresa May
Thanks for getting rid of 20 000 coppers, what a great legacy. Glad she has a smile on her face, very funny isnt it? UK crime stats up by as much as x4 in many of our towns and cities.
Love the response from Mrs. May on the question of faith and whether polticians should be talking more about theirs. Elected officials are not in office to represent themselves. They are there to represent their constituents. All of them! This business of being more upfront about your "feelings" is why there is increasing narcissism on display in politics today and why the Western civilisation is slowly sliding back to disarray!
@@raystephens1142 Well, Ray, you're jolly welcome and thanks for registering your gratitude. All good wishes to you in your journey to imrprove your political instincts
@@HamishBanish that’s very good and…instinctively, I can sense you’re a wonderful citizen with everyone’s best interests at heart. God bless you Sir, and all that sail in you.
I am a lifetime Labour supportor however, I was sad to see Mrs May go. I thought at the time that her own parlimentary party destroyed her, she did not forge the support needed to retain power. This failure was soo destructive to the country and the fault lies with Mrs May.
Yes - she didn't make the wisest decisions though at least she had integrity. If she had called a second referendum instead of an election that was bound to fail, she would have more likely been able to shut down Johnson and his supporters and build support for her own agenda. Instead, losing an election meant she threw herself into a struggle that culminated in her end and created an environment for Johnson and everything that's happened since.
The last genuine PM her party could produce that is before the “gang of thieves” took everything to the lowest of lows that politics could ever bring… one thing though I never understood why she would ever consider giving the likes of that phone scammer Patel a cabinet posting?
That’s utter nonsense! The only way for history to remember her at all would have been to oppose Brexit and keep the UK in the EU. But she chose to put her party above the country. She deserves to be forgotten
@@walterrudich2175the electorate blew a raspberry at the lib dems for advocating just that. Totally betraying the majority who voted for brexit is a terrible way for a prime minister to behave in a democracy. Your increadibly nieve if you think any government outright ignoring the referendum would have survived. Even Corbyns labour wasn't that short sighted
I'd never vote Conservative and never will, but I do think history will be kinder to Theresa May's premiership, especially compared to BloJo, Lettuce, and Sunackered
'As a trainee radio journalist I was told by the BBC trained editor - never ever ever ask 'how do you feel?' (practically a sackable offence...but not today, clearly)
It's a great interview and they both do well. I do however find it strange that Teresa May, according to this interview, comes across as caring about social issues. At the time she was very hard line.
@@monicaphilpot1030 When you're the PM to survive you have to please all factions of the party, who will turn on you if you do anything too drastic. The sacking of Boris, and the wet lettruss after shows this. An elected government is based on the main man/woman at the polls and the BS they always pledge. The fact that an incumbent government can oust a leader, leaving a power vacuum for months with a zombie PM waiting for his successor is bad enough in itself; to have the new successor voted in without a public ballot is the antithesis of democracy in my opinion. Powerful factions then get rid of Truss, again with no public ballot; and there is our government, powered by various factions vying for power as has been the case for at least 1000 years in Britain, but our government still thinks it's ok to trash talk 'less democratic countries'. Unless they provide us with lots and lots of oil... Monologue over.
Typical “front” from her and most of the Tories currently, though isn’t it? Say you care about something in practise, whilst in reality you underfund it to the point of collapse. Prisons, schools, social care…. List goes on
All she says about herself, all she and the interview wants to bring across, somebody with some life experience could well recognize what she was more elevated and hence confirm: She is decent, she is humble, she is a servant, she has her heart at the right place, she is a template for how the political industry could get more accepted and as much accepted to prevail safely. Disagreements in issues can not mean to not recognize a person's and a politician's qualities. The opposite. It means to find the best common solution which then likely is second to none. Politics is not about show and entertainment. Politics is about destilling the best out of incredible complex ingredients. What she is doing right now is honorable. But she could do more in coaching future generations of the people's representatives. Anyway - all honor!
One positive thing I could say about Theresa May is that she delivered an excellent tribute in the House of Commons following the death of our beloved Queen. It was personal, it had humour, it honoured Her Majesty's wisdom, and it was moving!
At a time of AI technology induced change, so pleased to hear about the importance of Values! Reduction of harms etc. Wish Teresa May another stint as PM in the future. We are back to the future as it were ...
I think she essentially in an impossible situation at the time. Yes mistakes were done but I genuinely think shes a capable good person unlike 99% of them.
Ruth Davidson is an awful interviewer. I wish she had stopped interrupting during an answer or transposing herself into the narrative. Very irritating.
Awful home secretary and awful prime minister. I'll accept that she tried to get a sensible brexit deal as much as realistically possible but that's it. She deserves no more praise than Cameron, Truss, Johnson or Sunak.
Absolutely, Botswana was disappointed that Theresa and madamme Ruth didn't donate brexit to help the aged. Poor Ruth is a gender equality pyramid selling type of scotty dolly.
She absolutely was the best chance in post Brexit era to somehow save the country, yet she was sabotaged by those who lied to British people how amazing Brexit is going to be for them.
If their Tories where really like what these two women’s believe we’d be a much better country. I say as a staunch labour and member voter who would still oppose that tory party
So if the Tories appealed to Labour sensibilities (spoiler, they do) then you would be happier? They're to the Left of Blair's New Labour, and it's not enough for you.
I appreciate Theresa May, she is sincere, wise, honest and in the job for the right reasons. I do find it is time to come to realization that the typical contraposition between progressives and conservatives is in fact non sensical. The traditional "I am right and you are wrong attitude", or the implicit "they do everything wrong and we (would) do everything right" does not help the electorate nor the country. I am particularly referring to debates in the House of Commons that I follow, but also interviews with key people on "either side". Their attitude if that is the right word for it, shows us over the years how counterproductive that contrapositioning is. If we look at the magnitude of problems the world is facing, it is time to come together for the sake of well being of next generations. I saw an interview recently with Rory Stewart. When asked about the differences between Labour (progressives?) and conservatives, he answered that he considers conservatives to take more time to consider pro's and con's of solutions to issues before making decisions, being more considerate of longer term economic effects of decisions.......I felt that was a poor and unfair answer, but if that is what really differentiates progressives from conservatives, than what would be stopping them to actually closely work together. Listening to the broader, longer term objectives of either party, there is hardly any difference. The debate is mainly about how to get there.....Do we really have time for that type of debate?
My daughter found a clay pipe, Sally Morgan kindly and so very generously predicted it once had been in a man's mouth, the audience was stunned, how could Sally have known this obscure fact? Absolutely stunned the audience was, totally amazing ability, you could have heard a pin drop in the theatre, this revalation that the pipe had been in a man's mouth literally left the attendees gobsmacked!
OK, I'll add a serious remark here. I'm not knocking the many worthy pi$$-takers ( I am one, after all, who cannot take this prez or its participants seriously): Treeza says what a weighty load it was to bear, sending the air-force off to bomb "Iraq chemical weapons factories" because "some of the [pilots] may not come back". I notice that she did not mention that some of the bombs might land on civilians who were unlucky enough to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Why the mikes are sooo poor?! It’s very annoying to hear the voices going and coming. Thanks for taking care of this, the interview is excellent just disturbed by this.
Oh I can't bear her normally, but I thought she was so real in Africa (and I lived in South Africa and know how much the kids and everyone would have appreciated her getting into the mood) and so I really laughed at her self effacement at that entrance. It's funny how British the cringe response was 😂 Africans love people just getting up and singing and dancing. ❤
That snap election was so opportunistic and badly executed that she self destructed. It just shows how bad it has been since that she’s getting this kind of rehabilitation.
Spot on. Plus, the recent Laura Kuenssberg documentary on BBC says she didn’t even relay the manifesto for that rushed election with her own cabinet?! UNBELIEVABLE
Theresa mentioned her involvement in setting up something to counter Modern day slavery...would be great to hear more details on this SVP (sil vous plait)!
"rather than thinking about what was necessarily going to work for the whole of the country, and what I wanted to do was to deliver Brexit, but do it in a way that recognised that 48% of the country voted Remain" By not seeking bi-partisanship or even try and pull in people like Ken Clarke from your own party, repeatedly saying 'Brexit is Brexit' and absolutely fail at coming up with a negotiating position with the EU at the start of withdrawal negotiations and only really having a firm view come July 2018 at Chequers.
She was basically kicked out because Boris and his mates said she wasn’t delivering on Brexit, but at least she was honest about the problems. Instead we had all the lies and incompetence…
