Possibly the worst British prime minister ever, with a poisonous legacy that will last for generations.
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Next time you feel a twinge of sympathy for Theresa May, think of the Northern Irish LGBT+ people still denied equal marriage rights, or the women who have no access to legal abortion, all because she’s too scared to confront the DUP. Her twisted alliance with Northern Ireland’s unionist party – which now appears to have disintegrated anyway – cost £1bn at a time when food bank usage is at a record high and public services have been starved of cash. If May hadn’t called a general election to boost her own ego, then disastrously lost it, this alliance would not have been necessary.
Think about the gay Brexit whistleblower who was outed by Downing Street, only for May to stand by the adviser who did it. Think of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe – the mother locked in jail in Iran, whose sentence was prolonged by Boris Johnson’s sheer incompetence – only for May to refuse to sack him. Think of the images of May holding hands with Donald Trump and rolling out the red carpet for him, after refusing to condemn his attacks on London’s mayor Sadiq Khan.
Remember that as home secretary, May repeatedly stoked anti-immigrant sentiments which were weaponised during 2016’s EU referendum. She might have let Amber Rudd take the fall for the Windrush scandal, but she was the original architect of the “hostile environment” policy. As prime minister, she has never condemned right-wing press attacks that characterised her critics as “saboteurs” or even “enemies of the people”. She also supported the Conservatives standing alone in voting with Hungary’s anti-immigrant, antisemitic and homophobic far-right in Brussels.
May’s current predicament has been created by her insistence on governing solely for the 52 per cent and those who claim to represent them. As Jacob Rees-Mogg submits his letter of no confidence, followed by a slew of pro-Brexit Tories, May must wish she hadn’t given the Tory right’s poisonous weed such opportunity to grow.
Having promised "strong and stable" leadership, May has instead provided unending chaos. Her time in Downing Street will be remembered as a mixture of supreme incompetence partnered with moral bankruptcy and unrivalled spinelessness. At one of the most crucial points in British history, Mayism has turned out to be nothing but mayhem – so let’s save our sympathy for someone more deserving.