Theresa May On The One Show

[poliphilo]

She is shy, awkward, not good with people- but trying awfully hard to pretend otherwise. She wriggles and grimaces as if her flesh were a bad fit for her bones.

She has a husband who looks like Arthur Askey.

Questioned about who does what around the house she says, "There are girl jobs and boy jobs"- which suggests emotional immaturity and an old-fashioned approach to gender.

Talking about values she speaks of the need to see a job through. And, yes, that confirms what I feel about her- that's she's a political carthorse- unimaginative, dogged, inflexible- not someone who has ever really thought for herself or questioned authority. If there's a burning deck and she's been told to stand on it she'll continue to do so until ordered otherwise- which is an odd trait in a leader.

Banksy is "not her thing". Well, what a surprise!

Comments

[shewhomust]

Do you suppose Prime Minister is a girl job or a boy job?

I wonder if these questions, too, had to be submitted in advance, which apparently is being insisted on for the 'political' interviews (as if this appearance wasn't political...)?

[poliphilo]

Matt Baker said in the course of the interview that there wouldn't be any "political" questions. I took that as his way of letting the audience know there'd been some degree of pre-vetting.

[cmcmck]

Her attitudes scare me.

She's a daughter of the vicarage which might explain some of this stuff.

[poliphilo]

A lot of the Anglican clergy are decidedly left-wing. I can only suppose Theresa's dad wasn't one of them.

I've never quite understood how you can combine voting Tory with reverence for the Galilean carpenter and his teachings.

[cmcmck]

Nor I!

The prophet I know and revere cared for the poor and the outsider as this lot don't and never have.