A pretty accurate (also hilarious) summary of the situation if you ask me. When exactly has she ever got anything right based on principle and not mere coincidence ? Never, so far as I can tell. The wonder is that she keeps getting elected, grumble grumble.... [wanders off muttering things about "relative comparisons" and "any twit next to Michael Gove looks competent" and "no-one even knows who their MP is...", etc.].
For example, yesterday was the anniversary of the Section 28 law being passed, which banned teachers from talking about being gay. Theresa May supported the act at the time, saying: “Most parents want the comfort of knowing Section 28 is there.”
But she doesn’t seem to support such a law now – so when did she change her mind? Does she regret supporting it then?
It’s the same with the war in Iraq. She supported the war, now accepts it didn’t go as well as hoped, but doesn’t appear to have any idea why she supported it or what changed her mind, or be at all bothered she might have been wrong.
Throughout the 1980s, May was an enthusiastic member of a party whose leader declared Nelson Mandela was a terrorist, and who was friends with a South American dictator. There’s no record of her ever commenting on this, which is right and proper, because you can’t be an effective politician if you’re expected to have opinions on trivia such as apartheid and torture.
On every major issue, she’s supported the side that’s turned out to be awful. And that’s why being a politician is her perfect job.
[Politicians, even arsey ones like May, have it rough. Ideally they should change their mind according to the best, latest evidence regarding their policy. If they don't, then they are rightly harangued for not listening or not respecting the evidence. But if they do, then they are depicted as unprincipled, untrustworthy, and only pandering to the voters. Even more problematically, sometimes they very clearly are just pandering to the voters but haven't actually changed their opinion at all. They are criticised regardless of which stance they take because the opposition are largely opposed to them, not their policies. This environment is a near-perfect shitstorm for degrading rational judgement.]
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/theresa-may-career-voting-record-worst-option-a8465391.html
I have only really seen this whole unfolding episode of political coprophagia from a distant, mildly voyeuristic perspective. You have my empathy.
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