Maybot And The Speech

[scooping]

Some politicians are just unlucky. But her speech speech today couldn't have been more so. Goodness only knows how the 'comedian' managed to get in and present her with the mock P45. Security is very tight. As for the cough I suppose no-ones fault. The message, in any case, was lacklustre. Methinks a big whoops.

[jim360]

And yet, here is Hitler just strolling into the thread for no reason.

(Also it's meant to be silly -- just, sadly, often accurate.)

[douglas9401]

Is Theresa May the new Ian Duncan-Cough?

[jim360]

Nah, but she might be the leader of the new Catarrh-y Party.

[mikey4444]

Dougie...Teresa isn't much cop but she isn't THAT bad !

[jno]

I think Hitler isn't just about Godwin's law, he's also a reminder that being sincere isn't enough to make a leader.

[Gromit]

I too though May was the best of a bad bunch, and I was prepared to overlook her past dishonesty (immigration down to tens of thousands, the Bolivian Cat).
But she has proved even more dishonest as a Prime Minister. Her unwillingness to answer straight questions is embarrassing and makes her look worse than dishonest. Asked whether she knew about the failed Trident trials (she did), when she voted to renew the missile system, she failed to answer not once, but 8 times.



You would think that after such a poor television performance that she would in future not dodge questions, she has done the reverse, and that seems to be the default response more or less all the time.

[gulliver1]

The Tories are finished, the worst speech and manifesto in history. Blue Plonkers. Corbyn is playing it very very cool , just sitting back and waiting in the wings.

[Gromit]

gulliver1
Corbyn might have a long wait, 2022 until the next election. And doing nothing for 5 years is not a good strategy.

[naomi24]

Jim at 17:58, there is a reason. The subject of the post was people capable of making rousing speeches so why Hitler specifically? Why not Stalin or the plethora of other people capable of hoodwinking the masses into a frenzy of sycophantic adoration? How about Corbyn? Godwin’s law is tripe.

[mikey4444]

What a speech.....building more Council Houses, capping utility prices, making Student debt more affordable ....now where have I heard all those before !

[Gromit]

Apparently Theresa May was wearing a bracelet of self portraits by Frida Kahlo, a member of the Communist party whose other claim to fame was that she was TROTSKY's girlfriend.

https://twitter.com/ladyhaja/status/915570818876362752/photo/1

Can this get any weirder ?

[ichkeria]

It was the letters falling off the message behind her that was the crowning glory. It sort of summed up the state of the party. Incompetently allowing that joker in (heaven knows how), standing around befuddled while he embarrassed Boris Johnson, and seemingly unable to stick a proper message together.