Friday 24 May 2019

No sympathy for May

Let's get this straight, in her resignation speech, May showed more humanity than she did in the previous two and three quarter years.

Facing up to the fact you have not done well enough to have the support of your party and colleagues is tough.

But not as tough as May has been on immigration. Irrationally so.

The "hostile environment" was her idea. It lead to hundreds, if not thousands of those of the Windrush Generation, and their families, all UK citizens, to be deported. A clearly illegal act.

She sent vans round cities threatening arrest to anyone thought of not being in the country legally.

This is the effect of the hostile environment, friends turning friends in, people living in fear.

She then put the end of free movement, one of the for freedoms that is the pillars of the EU single market to be the single most important thing, and everything would be sacrificed to ensure freedom of movement would end. That includes UK industry, jobs, the NHS. Everything.

And now the disenfranchisement of EU citizens in the UK, and UK citizens in the EU form being able to exercise their right to vote on the EU elections. They really don't care. May really does not care.

On top of this, tens of thousands of foreign students falsely accused of cheating on their university course and deported with little evidence, the NAO report is damning.

May has lied and lied her way through Brexit, it failure is her failure. Brexit was always going to be shit, but they way she handled it ensured it would be very shit indeed. Her red lines, created with little thought of what their effects would be, thus locking out any sensible compromise.

After Cameron, she is is the worst PM of all time, though when you look at who is in line to follow, that already low bar will be several notches lower.

God help us all.

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