The new PM

[enaid]

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Theresa May 'honoured and humbled' to be Tory leader and UK PM.

Well lets see how long that lasts.

[wales01man]

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Till 2020 now she can get on with Brexit ASAP

[nemesis45]

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Till 2020 now she can get on with Brexit ASAP

Thursday This Week would be best!!

nem

[enaid]

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Till 2020 now she can get on with Brexit ASAP

I meant honoured and humbled

me thinks labours knackered too now

[leclerc]

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I meant honoured and humbled

me thinks labours knackered too now

I know Labour bloke saying that they are on general election mode but another person might be throwing their hat into the ring to go against Corbyn.

Anyone with facebook might want to go onto Angela Eagle's facebook page which is being bombarded by corbynistas hashtagging her with things like vote corbyn and warmongerer....

[EXC]

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Theresa May 'honoured and humbled' to be Tory leader and UK PM.


Well lets see how long that lasts.

I thought it was quite interesting, what she actually said was ''I am honoured and humbled to be chosen by the Conservative party to become it's leader''. She was careful not to say that it was a bunch of Tory MPs that also decided she'd be the Prime Minister, and not the electorate.

Also it wasn't the 'Conservative party' but the Parliamentary Conservative party, the Conservative party didn't get a say.

[leclerc]

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The most important news of the day is actually that Larry the cat is STAYING at 10 Downing Street

[des8]

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[JulieM]

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Corbyn did not complete his degree and got E grades for his two A Levels. He was on a trade union course but got booted for arguing about the curriculum. I think that's irony in that trade union officials argue the rights for represented employees yet Corbyn was arguing with his tutors, hmm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Corbyn

Does it matter that he got E grades at A level. I did not get my maths or English GCSE but am doing a university degree. If he can do the job. I must say I am not a labour supporter unlike it seems most of my contemporaries but qualifications are not everything.

[enaid]

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Cameron went off singing to himself, so smug, he helped cause all this trouble in the parties and imho in knew exactly what he was doing, once a snake, always a snake and a yellow backed one at that.
Don't like Mrs May at all, she will have to do a lot better in the future than she has in the past for me to try and appreciate her.
Brexit proved that people want change both in their daily lives and the way their country is run.
For me it's just a change of PM for now as I doubt she will get much more from the EU than her old boss got and that was naff all.
Hope I am wrong but will take some persuading lol

[Amethyst]

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Does it matter that he got E grades at A level. I did not get my maths or English GCSE but am doing a university degree. If he can do the job. I must say I am not a labour supporter unlike it seems most of my contemporaries but qualifications are not everything.

Absolutely. There is a long long LONG list of VERY successful people who dropped/worked out school. Much rather someone who challenges than accepts for a quiet life. However there is an intelligence in knowing which battles to fight and when to stop.

[Amethyst]

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Don't like Mrs May at all, she will have to do a lot better in the future than she has in the past for me to try and appreciate her.

For me it's just a change of PM for now as I doubt she will get much more from the EU than her old boss got and that was naff all.

I'm pretty sure the #Brexit vote was to leave the EU ? They can't have it both ways. Seems people want to leave but keep subsidies, access to single market, all the good migrant workers / employers etc etc. Theresa May's getting shouted at for failing to reduce net migration but at the same being shouted at for deporting students - shouted at for wanting to remove parts of the Human Rights Act whiles also being shouted at for the deportation of Abu Qutada taking so long and not deporting his family, and lately for not saying that people already in the UK can stay forever.

Meant to say Nelly, we had 'Pick' channel on the other day ( we like the police chases/border controls stuff lol ) but they had a programme about a migrant reporting centre in Salford on there - fascinating.

[Openlaw15]

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Does it matter that he got E grades at A level. I did not get my maths or English GCSE but am doing a university degree. If he can do the job. I must say I am not a labour supporter unlike it seems most of my contemporaries but qualifications are not everything.

Well the standard is the hypothetical (reasonable) Prime Minister, so a very high standard indeed. So, actually for a potential Prime Minister it really does count. He had the privilege of a middle class family (father, a talented engineer; mother, a talented scientist - unheard of a woman like that in those days), being brought up in a rather comfortable picturesque environment (look at his family home); he was encouraged to develop his intellectual ideas therefore (social capital overally, therefore). Not many kids have that so seldom, even where there is a motivation to do well, have GCSES, or at least good GCSESs to fair well and hence they often become career criminals; I am talking about the tough working class kids - not the middle class co-horts. Given Corbyn's social capital, his leftie, if not irrelevant ideas, are simply too limited for a Prime Minister. This is likely why all his Oxbridge-educated peers turned their over-educated backs on him, as the man even had prep school prior to getting in a grammar school. Were it not for his social capital I doubt Corbyn would have even got 2 E grade A levels. Corbyn did not possess a degree so he cannot be said to hold a higher education. In Contrast, Cameron gained a first class degree from Oxford. Corbyn's view of the world is pretty much one dimensional and would be too limited for Prime Minister, whose contemporaries are often the world's elite with their impressive CVs. I am a Labour supporter and in this modern often changing world it is my view if Corbyn were Prime Minister, this 'very nice man' (who ate cold beans because he didn't want to waste cooking time) would simply fail the cut-throat ruthlessness needed in any hypothetical Prime Minister.

[JulieM]

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Openlaw
That is possibly one of the most sexist and elitist things I have ever read. Jeremy Corbyn is 67 so you are saying that it was unheard of for women of his mothers age to be successful. Please go and read some books.

[JulieM]

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Do you really think the politicians run the country, no it is the civil service with PPE or classics from Oxbridge.

Your comments are repulsive even though I am no fan of Corbyn . You seem to be saying that only people with a higher education can govern.