being better than the current bunch (and the bunch before them, and the bunch before them) doesn't make her a good prime minister. it just makes her the least awful of the four. the lesser of two evils is still evil.
how could i possibly feel an ounce of sympathy for a woman who commissioned "go home" vans and billboards? or maybe i should feel sympathy for her over her handling of windrush, or grenfell, or brexit, or the hostile environment... but at least there's a human behind her eyes i guess
The thing with May, is she genuinely seemed to be a nice respectable person, if a bit dull. She just also had no business being the Prime Minister. But in comparison to the sociopaths, fraudsters and generally amoral ghouls we currently have, her tenure seems like halcyon days in comparison.
@thomas You started speaking sensibly and aptly but then felt compelled to revert to ridiculous unfounded name calling. Why is that? You do know it's not compulsory here!
What? Where you absent when she was Cameron's Home Secretary? She was (still is) a ruthless amoral ghoulish xenophobe. Just because those that came after her made her look good in comparison, doesn't mean she actually was any good.
I don't want to get into the whole 'rose-tinted' view of the slightly better than the absolute shambles of the present (May was crap, regardless of how much more so her successors were), but I did find that Theresa May's awkwardness was actually quite humanising, she seemed genuinely just awkward, rather than the 'I'm trying to hide the fact I am a psychopath' flavour of awkwardness.
Spot on. Despite how much I disagree with her politics I found myself smiling at her awkwardness in this clip, unlike any similar clip I’ve ever seen with Boris Johnson where you can sense the restrained malevolence that’s just under the surface when he’s doing his clown routines.
Always have to remind myself that Boris Johnson is an absolute predator, his amiable shtick conceals a ruthless man. Rishi, no idea, he's so fake it's really difficult to tell what kind of person he actually is, other than that he loves money and yet doesn't understand how credit cards work. May, at least, was at least somewhat relatable to as a human being, although not forgetting her creating 'the hostile environment' when she was home secretary and had a big part in the horrors of the Windrush scandal
So the tit what shit you talk 6:32 she's one of the best they had not that I'm a tory .. The conservatives are the grubbies politic party there is Now she has gone therefucked
I think I'm one of the few that actually have a soft spot for her looking back despite what she stood for and how poorly she was as a leader. She had mannerisms which I could relate, being an anxious and akward person myself, but she did her best and I can't fault her for that. Also, she was the last of our leaders where accountability in her party mattered at a higher standard than what we got under Johnson, Truss and now Sunak since. So yeah, I don't agree with her and who she stands for in politics and I did not nor would I ever vote the way she may have, but you know what, I think interpersonally she would probably be a nice person to be around. She was human, in a way that the tossers we've had since have been nothing but baffoons or complete walking AI.
Xx Again an articulate resume of TM tenure which I largely concur with..which sadly I suspect was only used as a tool for the obligatory rant at the end. Such a waste!
I understand her complicated relationship with inanimate objects and awkwardness but I still have little sympathy for her tears. Her record and her party's record is the source of many tears, and not the laughing kind.
The weirdest thing I find about her is how she stands up in parliament and delivers a speech on how some bill is wrong or might not achieve what the government thinks it will but still goes and votes in the Aye Lobby anyway
I know it's tempting to watch this and feel like it was almost a golden age of statecraft compared to what came, but that's like a drunk reflecting fondly on five minutes earlier when they'd merely pissed themselves, having now shit themselves too. She sowed the ground for everything that followed. - At a time when we needed not to put a single foot wrong internationally, she made Boris fucking Johnson Foreign Secretary, for no better reason than apparently wanting to keep an enemy closer. - She stoked Brexit Leave vs Remain resentment, positioning herself as the champion of a cause she did not believe in, calling the proponents of the cause she did believe in 'citizens of nowhere'. - She called an election in 2017 asking people to 'give me the mandate' she already had, which caused her to lose that mandate and any semblance of respect on the domestic and international stage, and gave Boris Johnson his inroad to No10. She's since lost the 'worst PM ever' crown, but she's still in the top five, let's not give her undue credit.
Don't feel any compassion for her. She was Priti Patel in sheep's clothing. Her Home Secretaryship was some very impactful foreshadowing of the rest of the Tory rule.
I remember thinking May was the bottom of the barrel. Then Johnson was like they'd clawed thru the bottom of the barrel like trapped rats. Truss was tunneling her way to the core of the Earth. I have no metaphors left for Sunak there's nowhere else to go
@@jdHaworth, oh don't worry, I was not saying May was a good person or Prime Minister by any stretch, but at least she could say she was wrong about that. The other 3 after her, would bounce around it for at least a decade, before admitting they were wrong, if that.
She dances like a malfunctioning robot, never seen anything as funny since. Made my day this has! She was mediocre but the 3 that replaced her were downright dangerous, amazing we still have a country. Can't help but think the Tories were the coalition of chaos the whole time and how close we were to a fair and progressive government in 2017 though, the mess we are in now could've been avoided.
I actually like her awkwardness. 😅 I like that she doesn’t fit the traditional mould. She had morals and values. Make fun of her as much as you want. She was a mile better than her successors.
A well-observed meditation on permanently contorted English embarrassment, affectionately rendered by Gerald Scarfe and bought to life by the physical-performance artist, Theresa May...
How far have we fallen that we look back at May's premiership has better than the last 3. The problem is that we have lived with the consequences with a Tory party in constant war. Brexit, immigration economic management - they are constantly fighting. Internal debate is healthy but the Tories have tried torpedo each other over these issues.
The Brexit referendum was extremely vague. She was the one who decided to go for the most extreme version, outside the common market. It pleased the xenophobes but made the damage to the economy very much worse than necessary and risked re-igniting the Troubles in NI.
AAAAA 🥶😨👀 SITH LORD! I remember everyone wanted her OUT... Boy we got ourselves Boris... and then Kwarteng and Truss wiped out 30 + Bilions from the economy 🤦♂️ it's a steep decline.
I will remember Theresa May for the following things, and NONE of them are good: 1) Continuing Tory Austerity, with all the hardships that created 2) The ongoing covert Privatisation of the NHS 3) The 'Hostile Environment' for asylum seekers 4) Protecting those responsible for the Grenfell Tower disaster from investigation and prosecution 5) The Windrush Scandal 6) Putting the Conservative Party ahead of the national interest 7) The famous 'Red Lines' whereby the UK left the EU with almost the hardest Brexit possible, just to appease the Brexit hard-liners in her own party 8) Appointing Boris Johnson as Foreign Secretary 9) Being TOTALLY unwilling to compromise on her 'Red Lines' with both Tory and opposition MPs who were desperate to get a softer Brexit. 10) Crying when she had to resign, and saying that she loved this country. But clearly she does NOT love her country, OR the citizens of this country. She ONLY cares about the Tory Party and about enabling the super-rich to get ever richer.
I miss this lady. She didn't ask for the job. I hated seeing her cry when she announced her resignation. Not perfect by any stretch when under Cameron, but respectable at PM when being undermined daily.
Anyone else think they could have done a better job during that time? I'm surprised we had a PM at a time when only a narcissist would surely have been interested.
I mean she wasn’t amazing and there were a few questionable elements around her time as Home Secretary. But I am actually grateful for her because she really did try to make it so we didn’t have the worst possible brexit. I believe she did do her best and you can’t really ask more than that.
I didn't think I'd find myself saying this now all these years later but considering what followed her I genuinely kind of miss her because at the very least i think she respected the office she held.
I asked myself how the heck have I missed all this durant her being a prime minister,.? But I guess the answer is that by than ,I had lost interest in British politics.
I’m not a fan of her politics necessarily, but we’ve got to get over this ideal of a politician having to be charismatic and suave. She might be awkward, but she’s competent and intelligent, and that’s sometimes what you need in a leader.
Hard to believe that she "mucked in"...running through the wheat fields. They literally live in a parallel universe...but her "7 burnings injustices" were spot on...that she did nothing about.
At Oxford she was known for being ingratiatingly ambitious but not very competent.She maintained that throughout her career.You could call her the Rodney of the Tory Party with her 2/2in Geography from crappy Braisnose Collage.Sadly Britain is packed with lots of Teresa Mays there everywhere.
There were many cringe moments with Theresa May. The main thing that got really tedious when she was PM was any time she was asked any question about Brexit (which was several times a day during that period), she said, "I will get Brexit done", a totally meaningless phrase which was a very poor way of avoiding the subject and simply wasted time while delivering no information, or anything else, of value. Once or twice would have been understandable, but she uttered that phrase daily throughout her leadership. She may have more decency as a human being than subsequent PMs, but that is not exactly a ringing endorsement since the others set the bar extremely low. What she has in common with her successors is that she squandered an opportunity at the top job, and in the meantime, the country continued its inexorable decline at the expense of the vast majority of the British people.
She was responsible for handing control of our Defense and Intelligence services to the EU. Then this dancing robot joined the speaking tour and earned £millions
Hard to believe that we once thought she was the worst PM ever.
Shocking it got worse
The jury is out on that one!
She thwarted Brexit, Destroyed the police forces!
Amongst many, many other anti British machinations!
@@jzilla1234She was a Rothschild a traitor & a snake.
If it’s any consolation, she was
Cowardly Cameron wasn't great was he?
She tried her best and had a degree of respect and decorum. A thousand times better than the last three PMs and the psychotic Chancellor
Yes, but to quote the movie the rock.
Losers try their best, winners go home and bang the prom queen.
being better than the current bunch (and the bunch before them, and the bunch before them) doesn't make her a good prime minister. it just makes her the least awful of the four. the lesser of two evils is still evil.
RUBBISH, HER GAY HUSBAND RUNS LARGEST CANABIS FARM N UK
She was never leadership material. Useless, hopeless, clueless.
no lad she’s responsible for windrush and hostile environment she is not blameless just cos she was followed by a shower of even worse jeb ends
You could watch these cock-ups and feel a bit sorry for her; you’d never say that about a Liz Truss compilation
how could i possibly feel an ounce of sympathy for a woman who commissioned "go home" vans and billboards? or maybe i should feel sympathy for her over her handling of windrush, or grenfell, or brexit, or the hostile environment... but at least there's a human behind her eyes i guess
THAT
IS
A
DISGRACE
The thing with May, is she genuinely seemed to be a nice respectable person, if a bit dull. She just also had no business being the Prime Minister. But in comparison to the sociopaths, fraudsters and generally amoral ghouls we currently have, her tenure seems like halcyon days in comparison.
@thomas You started speaking sensibly and aptly but then felt compelled to revert to ridiculous unfounded name calling. Why is that? You do know it's not compulsory here!
@@chatham43 Unfounded, how much does Rishi's wife owe in tax? I mean I'm questioning your need to defend this government?
This is the woman who deported the Windrush generation and operated a hostile environment which is a foundation for Tory r*cism.
What? Where you absent when she was Cameron's Home Secretary? She was (still is) a ruthless amoral ghoulish xenophobe. Just because those that came after her made her look good in comparison, doesn't mean she actually was any good.
@@chatham43offended by the truth? Well, I never!
I don't want to get into the whole 'rose-tinted' view of the slightly better than the absolute shambles of the present (May was crap, regardless of how much more so her successors were), but I did find that Theresa May's awkwardness was actually quite humanising, she seemed genuinely just awkward, rather than the 'I'm trying to hide the fact I am a psychopath' flavour of awkwardness.
Things could be worse. Just imagine if we weren't in a shambles and Labour were miles behind in the polls!😊
Spot on. Despite how much I disagree with her politics I found myself smiling at her awkwardness in this clip, unlike any similar clip I’ve ever seen with Boris Johnson where you can sense the restrained malevolence that’s just under the surface when he’s doing his clown routines.
Always have to remind myself that Boris Johnson is an absolute predator, his amiable shtick conceals a ruthless man. Rishi, no idea, he's so fake it's really difficult to tell what kind of person he actually is, other than that he loves money and yet doesn't understand how credit cards work. May, at least, was at least somewhat relatable to as a human being, although not forgetting her creating 'the hostile environment' when she was home secretary and had a big part in the horrors of the Windrush scandal
So the tit what shit you talk 6:32 she's one of the best they had not that I'm a tory ..
The conservatives are the grubbies politic party there is
Now she has gone therefucked
It's a sad sad day when looking back at Theresa Mays reign looks roses. How far the country has fallen..
windrush
“Strong and Stable” can now run through fields of wheat 😂
Compared to what's there now, even being weird she seems normal!
I think I'm one of the few that actually have a soft spot for her looking back despite what she stood for and how poorly she was as a leader. She had mannerisms which I could relate, being an anxious and akward person myself, but she did her best and I can't fault her for that. Also, she was the last of our leaders where accountability in her party mattered at a higher standard than what we got under Johnson, Truss and now Sunak since. So yeah, I don't agree with her and who she stands for in politics and I did not nor would I ever vote the way she may have, but you know what, I think interpersonally she would probably be a nice person to be around. She was human, in a way that the tossers we've had since have been nothing but baffoons or complete walking AI.
I liked when as Home Secretary she rescinded the control orders placed on the LIFG. That went well.
Xx Again an articulate resume of TM tenure which I largely concur with..which sadly I suspect was only used as a tool for the obligatory rant at the end. Such a waste!
Yes she wasn’t entitled and privileged like BoJo or a moron like Truss. She was normalish.
windrush
“There is no money tree’ goes into coalition with the DUP and up pops a money tree 🤬
Thats quite a legacy !
The "Least Shit" of the last four !😕😕😕
Five. Don’t forget Cameron
windrush
I understand her complicated relationship with inanimate objects and awkwardness but I still have little sympathy for her tears. Her record and her party's record is the source of many tears, and not the laughing kind.
Somehow, Theresa Mays Abba dance got more awkward with the music taken away
That was a dance? I thought she’d just had hip surgery
The weirdest thing I find about her is how she stands up in parliament and delivers a speech on how some bill is wrong or might not achieve what the government thinks it will but still goes and votes in the Aye Lobby anyway
I think I've pulled a muscle from cringing so hard 🫣
Theresa may is like poorly cook food, everyone else after her is like rotten food eaten raw.
Kier is like a McDonalds happy meal. Only children believe in what he’s selling.
Strictly here she comes!
We thought she was the worst PM by then but it could only get worse...
The Breadsnatcher. She took away prescription bread!!
I know it's tempting to watch this and feel like it was almost a golden age of statecraft compared to what came, but that's like a drunk reflecting fondly on five minutes earlier when they'd merely pissed themselves, having now shit themselves too. She sowed the ground for everything that followed.
- At a time when we needed not to put a single foot wrong internationally, she made Boris fucking Johnson Foreign Secretary, for no better reason than apparently wanting to keep an enemy closer.
- She stoked Brexit Leave vs Remain resentment, positioning herself as the champion of a cause she did not believe in, calling the proponents of the cause she did believe in 'citizens of nowhere'.
- She called an election in 2017 asking people to 'give me the mandate' she already had, which caused her to lose that mandate and any semblance of respect on the domestic and international stage, and gave Boris Johnson his inroad to No10.
She's since lost the 'worst PM ever' crown, but she's still in the top five, let's not give her undue credit.
Don't feel any compassion for her. She was Priti Patel in sheep's clothing. Her Home Secretaryship was some very impactful foreshadowing of the rest of the Tory rule.
I remember thinking May was the bottom of the barrel. Then Johnson was like they'd clawed thru the bottom of the barrel like trapped rats. Truss was tunneling her way to the core of the Earth. I have no metaphors left for Sunak there's nowhere else to go
Incredible how the past three Prime Ministers we've had has made me miss May.
windrush
@@jdHaworth, oh don't worry, I was not saying May was a good person or Prime Minister by any stretch, but at least she could say she was wrong about that. The other 3 after her, would bounce around it for at least a decade, before admitting they were wrong, if that.
The Home Secretary that masterminded the brutal 'hostile environment' policy.
...ermm....absolutely??
People seem to forget that many of her actions, both as Home Secretary and Prime Minister, set the wheels in motion for the car crash we now endure.
She dances like a malfunctioning robot, never seen anything as funny since. Made my day this has! She was mediocre but the 3 that replaced her were downright dangerous, amazing we still have a country. Can't help but think the Tories were the coalition of chaos the whole time and how close we were to a fair and progressive government in 2017 though, the mess we are in now could've been avoided.
She was useless but not evil. Low standards but slightly better than what followed.
windrush
She sure was evil, but nice with it.
I was hoping for the dance clip being added absolute classic 😂
Remember her strong and stable gangsta chains?
There it is! 1:36
The first successful Thatcher Clone.
0:11 You know...hindsight is a funny thing...
I think you have inadvertently created quite a sweet memoriam for the lady
The fact that May retrospectively appears humanised and somewhat tolerable really shows how far her successors have made standards drop
best tory pm of the 21st century so far, hopefully ever
I actually like her awkwardness. 😅 I like that she doesn’t fit the traditional mould.
She had morals and values. Make fun of her as much as you want. She was a mile better than her successors.
Performance art
A well-observed meditation on permanently contorted English embarrassment, affectionately rendered by Gerald Scarfe and bought to life by the physical-performance artist, Theresa May...
She was definitely better than Truss!
@rosemary We never got the opportunity to find that out did we??
Don't want to rain on your parade, but all that felt like a golden era in British politics in comparison with the muppet show we've had since Johnson.
I can believe that the naughtiest thing she ever did was, "run through fields of wheat". Oh, and 'run' the Country...
How far have we fallen that we look back at May's premiership has better than the last 3.
The problem is that we have lived with the consequences with a Tory party in constant war. Brexit, immigration economic management - they are constantly fighting. Internal debate is healthy but the Tories have tried torpedo each other over these issues.
This hostile environment ideology theresa may implemented has left a nasty scar on society.
This division is her biggest legacy .
The dancing
The perfect reflection of the UK.
Well Liz Truss certainly made her look less insanely awkward
God, she was useless.
@simon Another privately educated. How did you cope with that?
@@chatham43 I'm not sure what you're saying.
That dance is the Dumpy Chicken
The Brexit referendum was extremely vague. She was the one who decided to go for the most extreme version, outside the common market. It pleased the xenophobes but made the damage to the economy very much worse than necessary and risked re-igniting the Troubles in NI.
AAAAA 🥶😨👀 SITH LORD!
I remember everyone wanted her OUT... Boy we got ourselves Boris... and then Kwarteng and Truss wiped out 30 + Bilions from the economy 🤦♂️ it's a steep decline.
I will remember Theresa May for the following things, and NONE of them are good:
1) Continuing Tory Austerity, with all the hardships that created
2) The ongoing covert Privatisation of the NHS
3) The 'Hostile Environment' for asylum seekers
4) Protecting those responsible for the Grenfell Tower disaster from investigation and prosecution
5) The Windrush Scandal
6) Putting the Conservative Party ahead of the national interest
7) The famous 'Red Lines' whereby the UK left the EU with almost the hardest Brexit possible, just to appease the Brexit hard-liners in her own party
8) Appointing Boris Johnson as Foreign Secretary
9) Being TOTALLY unwilling to compromise on her 'Red Lines' with both Tory and opposition MPs who were desperate to get a softer Brexit.
10) Crying when she had to resign, and saying that she loved this country. But clearly she does NOT love her country, OR the citizens of this country. She ONLY cares about the Tory Party and about enabling the super-rich to get ever richer.
Mother may i = no you may not
I miss this lady. She didn't ask for the job. I hated seeing her cry when she announced her resignation.
Not perfect by any stretch when under Cameron, but respectable at PM when being undermined daily.
windrush
@@jdHaworth thanks. Did I say she was perfect?
You would never guess shes James mays mum would ya
But they aren't related, same with Brian May.
Nothing gets past you, Arthur.
@@jordanp8193 Rare youtube comments actually make me laugh out loud. Brightened my evening mate
Cringeworthy indeed. But when did we last have a PM who wasn't.😊
She damaged the police service and that is unforgivable.
Anyone else think they could have done a better job during that time? I'm surprised we had a PM at a time when only a narcissist would surely have been interested.
Terrible Home Secretary, worst as a prime minister, good riddance
awkward she might have been, but no where near are corrupt I figure.
There’s going to be a May election that won’t have a “May” in it. Now that’s what you call ironic. 😜
No chance of May.
HER AND 'WHERE'S WALDO' RUN THE LARGEST CANABIS FARM IN UK
Highest second job earner in Parliament. The future is rosy for failed politicians.
That first clip is comedy gold. She should of got a BAFTA for that.
Oh god, I'd forgotten about the fields of wheat line 😂
Quite fond of her dance moves
I mean, you can’t deny she was giving it a go.
At least it was fun.I don't want to see a Sunak dance for example.
I mean she wasn’t amazing and there were a few questionable elements around her time as Home Secretary. But I am actually grateful for her because she really did try to make it so we didn’t have the worst possible brexit. I believe she did do her best and you can’t really ask more than that.
if i ever become a politician i'm only ever going to walk and stand-about ..never, ever, ever dance
his so unecessary,
she handle the guy who went on the stage very well
1:02 wtf!? 😂
Ah, thanks for the reminder of how crop circles form! 🦔😅
the cheese story is genuinely heartfelt 💛
I didn't think I'd find myself saying this now all these years later but considering what followed her I genuinely kind of miss her because at the very least i think she respected the office she held.
windrush
She rose without trace and sank like the Titanic.
4:08 whoa! Steady on! 😂
Very awkward
Plenty of air time on May, anyone think she'd passed away.
She did. In 2016
Rishi is more awkward... somehow
All this time I didn't even notice she's like basically Mrs. Bean
What about the JAMs???
I asked myself how the heck have I missed all this durant her being a prime minister,.? But I guess the answer is that by than ,I had lost interest in British politics.
She was the last sensible Tory leader
Director to Laura Kuernsberg every time she interviews a Tory PM: “no tongues Laura!”
even "call me Dave" Cameron knew which way to walk and which Pig he wanted that night.
I’m not a fan of her politics necessarily, but we’ve got to get over this ideal of a politician having to be charismatic and suave. She might be awkward, but she’s competent and intelligent, and that’s sometimes what you need in a leader.
Hard to believe that she "mucked in"...running through the wheat fields.
They literally live in a parallel universe...but her "7 burnings injustices" were spot on...that she did nothing about.
I find this oddly relatable
At Oxford she was known for being ingratiatingly ambitious but not very competent.She maintained that throughout her career.You could call her the Rodney of the Tory Party with her 2/2in Geography from crappy Braisnose Collage.Sadly Britain is packed with lots of Teresa Mays there everywhere.
Johnson-Truss-Sunak did for Theresa May what The Rise of Skywalker did for The Phantom Menance
The bit about the Queen ain't actually that bad, her timing with her pauses in the story were spot on.
Evil Oli, making his subordinates watch old clips of Theresa May. Nasty man.
There were many cringe moments with Theresa May. The main thing that got really tedious when she was PM was any time she was asked any question about Brexit (which was several times a day during that period), she said, "I will get Brexit done", a totally meaningless phrase which was a very poor way of avoiding the subject and simply wasted time while delivering no information, or anything else, of value. Once or twice would have been understandable, but she uttered that phrase daily throughout her leadership. She may have more decency as a human being than subsequent PMs, but that is not exactly a ringing endorsement since the others set the bar extremely low. What she has in common with her successors is that she squandered an opportunity at the top job, and in the meantime, the country continued its inexorable decline at the expense of the vast majority of the British people.
She was responsible for handing control of our Defense and Intelligence services to the EU. Then this dancing robot joined the speaking tour and earned £millions
Thatcher, May, and... the other one. Yeah. 😏
Hostile environment. Windrush.
Theresa May dancing what a memory
Bring her back NOW !
Women and children first..
I prefer these clips to the robotic stuff. going by the first few, anyway.
I don’t know. Politics aside, she seems like a nice person.
windrush
Honestly the awkwardness wasn’t the problem
She will go down in history as the best PM of the 2010-2024 Tory rule era.