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If you don't know what I'm on about look on fb for Britain Bites Back.
Will it though? Which will create the biggest such chasm?Liam Fox has piled pressure on his Westminster colleagues to vote the prime minister’s Brexit deal through, by warning they will undermine faith in mainstream politics by creating a “chasm of distrust” if they fail to do so.
LONDON — My first attempt to charm Theresa May was eight years ago, in the grand surroundings of the State Dining Room in Downing Street, where a couple of hundred women had been invited to a reception for International Women’s Day. Mrs. May, then the home secretary, arrived to the event late and perched by a table looking uncomfortable and alone. She was the only minister not surrounded by a jostling crowd. I told a gaggle of female correspondents that I was going to talk to her. “Don’t bother,” they said. “She’s a blank wall. She never tells you anything.”
I didn’t believe them. In general, politicians need journalists to exchange gossip, spin, insights and facts. I took my glass and introduced myself. Mrs. May gave a small tight smile. Every question I asked, from how she was doing to what challenges she faced at the home office, was batted away with monosyllables. I was baffled. She clearly saw no point in creating a relationship, or explaining any of her thinking to me.
This would have been an irrelevant encounter with an unimportant hack except that practically everybody, from fellow ministers to advisers to European leaders, turns out to have experienced a version of it. Mrs. May’s extraordinary inability to develop or grasp the critical importance of alliances, friendships, coalitions and mutual understanding in politics has destroyed her premiership — and derailed the Brexit process from its beginning to its calamitous stalemate today.
Was that the Professor Nutt thing?I think the incident which really cemented my opinion of her was the altering of the drug report. Apparently Clegg had the government commission a report and when it reached May, she had it changed because she didn't like the results. How can someone like that run a country?
Was that the Professor Nutt thing?
This is exactly it. Of course, this tactic makes some kind of sense when facing tough questioning from a hostile MP or interviewer as it basically is just a way not to say anything at all. Even then it makes me feel sick and I wish people would be challenged more on it - any interviewer should point out that they are not answering and ask why and so on - and it puts people off and thus could be a potential vote loser, but ultimately I can see how a politician might at certain times think it is a viable tactic. What I don't get is when she goes to the EU and wants a favour from them (some kind of tidbit to make her deal more attractive and thus potentially win over parliament) and gives a speech - and she does this! Why is she freezing them out and ignoring them when she needs their help, she isn't giving them any information, any clue. How is this weirdly paranoid behaviour going to win anyone over?Every question I asked, from how she was doing to what challenges she faced at the home office, was batted away with monosyllables. I was baffled. She clearly saw no point in creating a relationship, or explaining any of her thinking to me.
I wish she'd seriously kneed her.My girlfriend's mum vaguely knee May as a student at Oxford