Theresa May appeals to MPs for support as her future hangs in balance

[brooklynite]

Source: The Guardian

Theresa May will appeal to her MPs to throw their weight behind her at a crunch meeting on Monday, as her future hangs in the balance after the Conservatives’ majority was wiped out in Thursday’s general election.

The prime minister is expected to signal to her parliamentary colleagues that she will run her government in a more collegiate, less controlling way, after sacrificing her two closest advisers, Fiona Hill and Nick Timothy.

May carried out a modest reshuffle of her top team on Sunday as speculation continued to swirl about her future, including bringing back Michael Gove into government as environment secretary, replacing Andrea Leadsom. Gove crashed out of the cabinet last year after challenging May for the Conservative leadership, stymying Boris Johnson’s chances in the process.

With many backbenchers blaming May for the party’s poor performance at the polls, one senior Conservative said she would have to give a “barnstorming” performance at the meeting of the party’s 1922 committee of MPs to hold on to her job.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jun/11/theresa-may-appeals-to-mps-for-support-as-questions-are-raised-over-leadership

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

1. I had really hoped May would be the adult in the room on the Brexit issue

Instead she has gone down in flames after pandering to simpletons who hum "Rule Britannia" at the urinal.

Although I suspect she will survive for the same reason she rose to the top a year ago, the total absence of a better alternative in the Conservative Party.

Oh well, I am going to the UK for two weeks in October, I can live with the Pound at par.

[sandensea]

2. Or as they're calling it in Great Britain, the MAYDUP government.

Theresa May and the DUP's Arlene Foster: not happy campers.

[democratisphere]

3. Tar and feather her down in the town square.

All Conservatives be gone with ye!

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Theresa May is now compelled to govern as opposed to dictate.

[T_i_B]

6. That's essentially what she was asking us voters for....

...a blank cheque so that she could wreck the country in any way she saw fit. Theresa May was quite open in her intention and I for one don't much fancy the idea of unaccountable government, even if Theresa May does.

[David__77]

5. New elections and a Labour government would be a better alternative!

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[T_i_B]

7. Think the Tories might just be too weak and wobbly for that right now!