A dozen devastating verdicts on Theresa May’s tearful resignation
Her attempt to deliver Brexit was always going to end in tears and Theresa May’s resignation announcement today did exactly that.
Prime Minister Theresa May struggled to fight back the tears as she said it had been 'the honour of my life' to serve 'the country that I love'.
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— ITV News (@itvnews) May 24, 2019
And it’s fair to say the sympathy wasn’t entirely overflowing for the soon to be former PM. These 12 angry tweets do a very good job of explaining why.
1.
Theresa May guide to crying
NO TEARS for
Grenfell
The Windrush generation
Deaths and misery caused by the hostile environment, by austerity, by welfare cuts, NHS cuts
598 rough sleepers dying on our streets last year
4m children in poverty
Record food bank useTEARS for
Herself— David Schneider (@davidschneider) May 24, 2019
2.
Goodbye to one of the worst PMs we have ever had. I have no confidence that the next two will be any better.
— Stephen Mangan (@StephenMangan) May 24, 2019
3.
Fuck her tears. I have zero sympathy. I do have sympathy for elderly members of the Windrush generation told to leave the country, Grenfell survivors who still don't have adequate housing or justice, 4.1m kids living in poverty, and 100,000s more people forced to use food banks.
— Nooruddean (@BeardedGenius) May 24, 2019
4.
Her 'will of the people' rhetoric was the polar opposite of the 'compromise' she's claiming to have championed. Shameful.
— James O'Brien (@mrjamesob) May 24, 2019
5.
A moving departure speech from Theresa May who looked close to tears at the end. pic.twitter.com/07GErr2KsK
— Graham Love (@GLove39) May 24, 2019
6.
You don't have to feel sorry for someone who will happily deport gay people to places where gay people face the death penalty just because she cried when she was forced to leave the job she was shit at.
— James Felton (@JimMFelton) May 24, 2019
7.
To those feeling sorry for Theresa May:
4m+ kids in poverty
1m+ Foodbank users
1.9m OAPs in poverty
8.4m struggling to eat
NHS being systemically privatised
The disabled having their benefits cut
The worst homelessness I have ever seenSorry but I've no sympathy for her #Trexit
— Shlomo (@hapoel2018) May 24, 2019
8.
How Theresa May can again speak about “burning injustices” when her cruel, chaotic & incomprehensibly incompetent Government has left millions using food banks, caused soaring homelessness & malnutrition, death & despair is beyond me. Britain needs a General Election now
— Peter Stefanovic (@PeterStefanovi2) May 24, 2019
9.
Theresa May close to tears. She was a truly incompetent Prime Minister and a disgustingly cruel Home Secretary. No re-writing of legacies should pretend otherwise.
— Frances Ryan (@DrFrancesRyan) May 24, 2019
10.
So she dies, as she lived: boring us into submission with platitudes.
— Stig Abell (@StigAbell) May 24, 2019
11.
A whole political career not showing emotion ends in tears. My word.
— Francis Elliott (@elliotttimes) May 24, 2019
12.
The most staggering thing about Theresa May is her shamelessness and lack of self-awareness. Her speech claimed she made Britain "work for everyone" and gave a "voice to the voiceless", and presented herself as the heroine of Grenfell. Like Thatcher's, her tears are for herself.
— Simon Price (@simon_price01) May 24, 2019
To conclude, here’s some ‘no context Thick of It’.
