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On a human level, one of course has sympathy.
But we will not learn or change if we aren’t honest.
“Burning injustices” were the bookmarks of her premiership, with nothing of substance in between.
Grenfell? A union of people, compromise?
It’s hard not to be deeply cynical.
But we will not learn or change if we aren’t honest.
“Burning injustices” were the bookmarks of her premiership, with nothing of substance in between.
Grenfell? A union of people, compromise?
It’s hard not to be deeply cynical.
Her wish to be portrayed as someone who compromised, and as someone who governed for all, is the final act of delusion in a Prime Minister who did neither.
She will be remembered for making a bad situation undoubtedly worse.
She will be remembered for making a bad situation undoubtedly worse.
She will be remembered for carrying the legacies of her anti-immigration obsession into No.10, and into Lancaster House, the author of the #HostileEnvironment for which she never apologised, for #CitizensofNowhere, for subjecting half the country to a place out of sight & mind.
She will be remembered for Windrush, for her many failures after Grenfell, for deepening the division in a polarised country, & for the final act of failing to take responsibility for disenfranchisement in our democracy.
Compromise wasn’t a word she knew, until it was too late.
Compromise wasn’t a word she knew, until it was too late.
On a human level, one of course has sympathy for the public nature of her final humiliation.
But we must be honest about a Home Secretary turned PM whose driving force was a myopic obsession with immigration & a legacy that is truly terrible.
She made the bad worse. Much worse.
But we must be honest about a Home Secretary turned PM whose driving force was a myopic obsession with immigration & a legacy that is truly terrible.
She made the bad worse. Much worse.
