| P.M. Theresa May's speech to U.S. Congressional group 01:50 - Jan 27 with 9636 views | Davillin |
I know that many of you do not think well of Theresa [edit: Thanks PhactOrri and other posters] May, but I truly hope that you will put aside as you read my post.
I watched her 32-minute speech to the U.S. Republican Congressional retreat in Philadelphia earlier today.
I recommend it to you.
She was very well received, with many interruptions for applause, and not a few for standing ovations, as she painted a word picture of the long-standing relationship between our two countries. And, without mentioning our previous president's having allowed that relationship to wither [at least], she made a strong appeal for a renewal of it [standing ovation].
Not only do I not believe the oft-repeated notion as completely false that the United States treats the United Kingdom as an inferior, I am offended that we are so demeaned. Both our countries, by the way.
In all my life, I have never heard a single word about our relationship except positive ones. I believe and know that she described the American view of that relationship with 100% accuracy.
Her speech and the congressmen and congresswomen are well worth your time and effort.
P.S., did your media point out that one of the very first acts of President Trump on his first day in the White House was to return the bust of Winston Churchill to its pre-Obama place of honor in the Oval Office?
URL to P.M. May's speech:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/01/26/british_pm_theresa_may_at_gop_ [Post edited 27 Jan 2017 16:14]
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| P.M. Virginia May's speech to U.S. Congressional group on 22:08 - Jan 27 with 1247 views | Kilkennyjack |
| P.M. Virginia May's speech to U.S. Congressional group on 21:43 - Jan 27 by Kerouac |
"I'm sure they will get on fantastically, as they try to decide how to ruin two countries, in record time - Phact0rri
"I would have preferred it if she went and made a speech about refusing to deal with your crazy country." - Magic_Michu
"You lot can keep her, she's over there begging & offering any thing she can sell off ." - Oh_tommy_tommy
"Worst PM ever. A former remain campaigner now pushing for a damaging hard Brexit. She does not even believe in what she is doing herself. " - Kilkennyjack
Yawn.
p.s. Kilkenny's assertion that she is a; "former remain campaigner now pushing for a damaging hard Brexit" could have just as easily been written by a Brexiteer about Corbyn and his new-found enthusiasm for the EU. |
Corbyn is a disgrace and let the working people of this country down badly by not galvanising the Labour vote against Tory Brexit.
May is still a dreadful PM. 'We need a red, white, and blue Brexit' ... Wtf ! |  |
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| P.M. Virginia May's speech to U.S. Congressional group on 22:22 - Jan 27 with 1225 views | Kerouac |
| P.M. Virginia May's speech to U.S. Congressional group on 22:08 - Jan 27 by Kilkennyjack |
Corbyn is a disgrace and let the working people of this country down badly by not galvanising the Labour vote against Tory Brexit.
May is still a dreadful PM. 'We need a red, white, and blue Brexit' ... Wtf ! |
Shhh, we're not allowed to discuss Space Cadet Corbyn's brand of leadership on a thread about May's leadership...it upsets Humpty Dumpty, for some reason. [Post edited 27 Jan 2017 23:56]
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| P.M. Virginia May's speech to U.S. Congressional group on 22:49 - Jan 27 with 1203 views | NeathJack |
| P.M. Virginia May's speech to U.S. Congressional group on 16:14 - Jan 27 by perchrockjack |
That so many Brits trust and prefer Russia ,Putin et al than America says much about how low we ve sunk.
GB has indeed lost the plot.
70 yrs ago the red army was butchering all in its wake on a massive scale yet we now see credible tears about water boarding terrorists who blow us ,that's US to prices without mercy.
Worst pm ? Holy Jesus.
Short memories
Blair was elected three times, a labour man. Wilson, a lethal liar without equal, Heath an effete jerk obsessed with boats ,boys and organs.
We owe America much and are ungrateful
God knows ,many yanks are red neck jerks utterly without perception of the wider world but people forget the millions who suffered from socialist dictators for decades.
Now, we have Democratic socialists of North Korea and China taking over the mantle of oppression.
Thick as shyte we are |
Tony Blair a labour man you say?
When you've got a spare hour and a half or so Perch, I'd appreciate your views on this.
http://www.veoh.com/watch/v110198720Zt5NDZfC/ |  | | |
| P.M. Virginia May's speech to U.S. Congressional group on 22:51 - Jan 27 with 1201 views | Jack_Meoff |
| P.M. Virginia May's speech to U.S. Congressional group on 21:43 - Jan 27 by Kerouac |
"I'm sure they will get on fantastically, as they try to decide how to ruin two countries, in record time - Phact0rri
"I would have preferred it if she went and made a speech about refusing to deal with your crazy country." - Magic_Michu
"You lot can keep her, she's over there begging & offering any thing she can sell off ." - Oh_tommy_tommy
"Worst PM ever. A former remain campaigner now pushing for a damaging hard Brexit. She does not even believe in what she is doing herself. " - Kilkennyjack
Yawn.
p.s. Kilkenny's assertion that she is a; "former remain campaigner now pushing for a damaging hard Brexit" could have just as easily been written by a Brexiteer about Corbyn and his new-found enthusiasm for the EU. |
I'll wager none of those four responses was directed to her speech in question . I'll gladly stand corrected if so.
Corbyn and the EU is a fair point - he's never been for it. The neoliberal colossus that it is. Similar to your reasons?
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| P.M. Theresa May's speech to U.S. Congressional group on 23:52 - Jan 27 with 1154 views | perchrockjack |
Yep. Labour MP.monumentally working class area. Re elected twice. Still labour.
Labour wife too, who had a labour father .
Hypocrites innit |  |
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| P.M. Theresa May's speech to U.S. Congressional group on 00:00 - Jan 28 with 1143 views | NeathJack |
| P.M. Theresa May's speech to U.S. Congressional group on 23:52 - Jan 27 by perchrockjack |
Yep. Labour MP.monumentally working class area. Re elected twice. Still labour.
Labour wife too, who had a labour father .
Hypocrites innit |
Did you watch it? | | | |
| P.M. Virginia May's speech to U.S. Congressional group on 00:30 - Jan 28 with 1120 views | Kerouac |
| P.M. Virginia May's speech to U.S. Congressional group on 22:51 - Jan 27 by Jack_Meoff |
I'll wager none of those four responses was directed to her speech in question . I'll gladly stand corrected if so.
Corbyn and the EU is a fair point - he's never been for it. The neoliberal colossus that it is. Similar to your reasons?
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Ultimately our relationship with the EU was a dysfunctional one.
There are lots of things about the EU I don't like, people from all sides of the political spectrum have pointed some of these things out.
Here are some things Corbyn said which I agree with;
- "(the EU)...has always suffered a serious democratic deficit”.
- “The project has always been to create a huge free-market Europe, with ever-limiting powers for national parliaments and an increasingly powerful common foreign and security policy."
- On the Maastricht treaty '93
“I am sure that [Labour MPs] will vote against the Maastricht treaty again tonight, primarily because it takes away from national Parliaments the power to set economic policy and hands it over to an unelected set of bankers”
- “If the EU becomes a totally brutal organisation that treats every one of its member states in the way that the people of Greece have been treated at the moment, then I think it will lose a lot of support from a lot of people.”
- "Public opposition to the EU’s TTIP treaty is “a cri de coeur for democracy and for the right of people to elect a Government who can decide what goes on in their country.”
- "It is morally wrong [to] pay farmers to over-produce… then use taxpayers’ money to buy the over-production, so it is already a double purchase, and it is then shipped at enormous public cost across the seas to be dumped as maize on African societies. … The practice is simply crazy and must be stopped.”
- "“[W]e are now exporting 40 per cent of the world’s sugar and subsidising it to the tune of €500 per tonne. That is not justifiable in any moral or other sense. We are driving cane sugar producers in Africa and elsewhere out of business so that European sugar can be dumped on their markets.” | |
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| P.M. Theresa May's speech to U.S. Congressional group on 13:39 - Jan 28 with 1042 views | DafyddHuw |
He's a cùnt. He should be Gitmo'd to some remote Chinese island and waterboarded, see if he says whatever crap his interrogaters want him to say. Then he can come back and tell us torture is worth while.
She's a cùnt too. She wasn't elected by the people either. They deserve each other.
And she can stick her speech up her arse (or should that be ass?)
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| P.M. Virginia May's speech to U.S. Congressional group on 18:07 - Jan 28 with 989 views | Jack_Meoff |
| P.M. Virginia May's speech to U.S. Congressional group on 00:30 - Jan 28 by Kerouac |
Ultimately our relationship with the EU was a dysfunctional one.
There are lots of things about the EU I don't like, people from all sides of the political spectrum have pointed some of these things out.
Here are some things Corbyn said which I agree with;
- "(the EU)...has always suffered a serious democratic deficit”.
- “The project has always been to create a huge free-market Europe, with ever-limiting powers for national parliaments and an increasingly powerful common foreign and security policy."
- On the Maastricht treaty '93
“I am sure that [Labour MPs] will vote against the Maastricht treaty again tonight, primarily because it takes away from national Parliaments the power to set economic policy and hands it over to an unelected set of bankers”
- “If the EU becomes a totally brutal organisation that treats every one of its member states in the way that the people of Greece have been treated at the moment, then I think it will lose a lot of support from a lot of people.”
- "Public opposition to the EU’s TTIP treaty is “a cri de coeur for democracy and for the right of people to elect a Government who can decide what goes on in their country.”
- "It is morally wrong [to] pay farmers to over-produce… then use taxpayers’ money to buy the over-production, so it is already a double purchase, and it is then shipped at enormous public cost across the seas to be dumped as maize on African societies. … The practice is simply crazy and must be stopped.”
- "“[W]e are now exporting 40 per cent of the world’s sugar and subsidising it to the tune of €500 per tonne. That is not justifiable in any moral or other sense. We are driving cane sugar producers in Africa and elsewhere out of business so that European sugar can be dumped on their markets.” |
Ta. Finding it difficult to disagree with any of that Kez, in fairness. | |
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| P.M. Theresa May's speech to U.S. Congressional group on 18:09 - Jan 28 with 988 views | blueytheblue |
| P.M. Theresa May's speech to U.S. Congressional group on 13:39 - Jan 28 by DafyddHuw |
He's a cùnt. He should be Gitmo'd to some remote Chinese island and waterboarded, see if he says whatever crap his interrogaters want him to say. Then he can come back and tell us torture is worth while.
She's a cùnt too. She wasn't elected by the people either. They deserve each other.
And she can stick her speech up her arse (or should that be ass?)
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She may not have been elected by the people - yet. She will be.
Brown wasn't elected by the people. When he could have been... well, we got better things, thankfully. | |
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| P.M. Theresa May's speech to U.S. Congressional group on 18:39 - Jan 28 with 972 views | exiledclaseboy |
| P.M. Theresa May's speech to U.S. Congressional group on 18:09 - Jan 28 by blueytheblue |
She may not have been elected by the people - yet. She will be.
Brown wasn't elected by the people. When he could have been... well, we got better things, thankfully. |
She wont be elected by the people. Ever. Except in her constituency. |  |
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| P.M. Theresa May's speech to U.S. Congressional group on 18:41 - Jan 28 with 970 views | perchrockjack |
Let's face it.no Tory pm would be seen as a good pm | |
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| P.M. Theresa May's speech to U.S. Congressional group on 20:41 - Jan 28 with 910 views | sherpajacob |
| P.M. Theresa May's speech to U.S. Congressional group on 18:41 - Jan 28 by perchrockjack |
Let's face it.no Tory pm would be seen as a good pm |
I will never vote Tory.
I think Thatcher was evil
Cameron incompetent
Major ineffectual
Heath - I'd better not say.
But at the moment I would take any of them over May as PM |  |
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| P.M. Theresa May's speech to U.S. Congressional group on 20:49 - Jan 28 with 902 views | DJack |
What we need is a strong Prime Minister who sticks to their stated policies ideas...unfortunately we got Theresa May the poodle.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38784199 |  |
| It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. - Carl Sagan |
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| P.M. Theresa May's speech to U.S. Congressional group on 20:51 - Jan 28 with 899 views | blueytheblue |
| P.M. Theresa May's speech to U.S. Congressional group on 18:39 - Jan 28 by exiledclaseboy |
She wont be elected by the people. Ever. Except in her constituency. |
Unless Labour get rid of Corbyn... then yes.
If only for the reason he'd be far, far worse. | |
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| P.M. Theresa May's speech to U.S. Congressional group on 20:58 - Jan 28 with 886 views | perchrockjack |
I vote for whomsoever I see as best fit to run the country for all of us.
It's a struggle .
To be stuck to one party is pitiful though.
Blair ,Prescott ,Corbyn....all tossers | |
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| P.M. Theresa May's speech to U.S. Congressional group on 21:03 - Jan 28 with 878 views | londonlisa2001 |
| P.M. Theresa May's speech to U.S. Congressional group on 20:51 - Jan 28 by blueytheblue |
Unless Labour get rid of Corbyn... then yes.
If only for the reason he'd be far, far worse. |
This country doesn't elect prime ministers under any circumstances bluey.
That's the whole point of the ridiculous 'she was never elected' bit being a nonsense. She's as elected as any other PM has been. | | | |
| P.M. Theresa May's speech to U.S. Congressional group on 21:04 - Jan 28 with 871 views | exiledclaseboy |
| P.M. Theresa May's speech to U.S. Congressional group on 21:03 - Jan 28 by londonlisa2001 |
This country doesn't elect prime ministers under any circumstances bluey.
That's the whole point of the ridiculous 'she was never elected' bit being a nonsense. She's as elected as any other PM has been. |
Thank you for saving me the trouble. You're a saint. | |
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| P.M. Theresa May's speech to U.S. Congressional group on 21:05 - Jan 28 with 864 views | londonlisa2001 |
| P.M. Theresa May's speech to U.S. Congressional group on 21:04 - Jan 28 by exiledclaseboy |
Thank you for saving me the trouble. You're a saint. |
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| P.M. Theresa May's speech to U.S. Congressional group on 21:06 - Jan 28 with 864 views | blueytheblue |
| P.M. Theresa May's speech to U.S. Congressional group on 21:03 - Jan 28 by londonlisa2001 |
This country doesn't elect prime ministers under any circumstances bluey.
That's the whole point of the ridiculous 'she was never elected' bit being a nonsense. She's as elected as any other PM has been. |
Well, yes, Lisa, I was ignoring that bit tbh.
Reality is, people do vote based upon who the leader of parties are. Plenty will be voting against Labour candidates in upcoming byelections based upon the current Labour leader, not the individual candidates they put forward. | |
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| P.M. Theresa May's speech to U.S. Congressional group on 21:08 - Jan 28 with 847 views | Darran |
| P.M. Theresa May's speech to U.S. Congressional group on 21:04 - Jan 28 by exiledclaseboy |
Thank you for saving me the trouble. You're a saint. |
She wasn't elected as any other PM usually is in a GE.
But I don't care I'm just saying. |  |
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| P.M. Theresa May's speech to U.S. Congressional group on 21:09 - Jan 28 with 844 views | londonlisa2001 |
| P.M. Theresa May's speech to U.S. Congressional group on 21:06 - Jan 28 by blueytheblue |
Well, yes, Lisa, I was ignoring that bit tbh.
Reality is, people do vote based upon who the leader of parties are. Plenty will be voting against Labour candidates in upcoming byelections based upon the current Labour leader, not the individual candidates they put forward. |
I don't disagree with your proving re Labour voters.
A shame that many will ignore the many qualities of the delightful Paul Nuttall. | | | |
| P.M. Theresa May's speech to U.S. Congressional group on 21:11 - Jan 28 with 839 views | exiledclaseboy |
| P.M. Theresa May's speech to U.S. Congressional group on 21:08 - Jan 28 by Darran |
She wasn't elected as any other PM usually is in a GE.
But I don't care I'm just saying. |
You're taking shit.
But I don't care, I'm just saying. | |
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| P.M. Theresa May's speech to U.S. Congressional group on 21:13 - Jan 28 with 833 views | perchrockjack |
If she was that bad, jez would be smashing her at the dispatch box.he is not.
In fact, she looks the part alright as does corbyn, a vacuous jerk supported by the most unctuous acolytes possible.
She would never get any credit in South Wales ever.
Nye Bevan is long gone | |
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| P.M. Theresa May's speech to U.S. Congressional group on 21:13 - Jan 28 with 833 views | exiledclaseboy |
| P.M. Theresa May's speech to U.S. Congressional group on 21:09 - Jan 28 by londonlisa2001 |
I don't disagree with your proving re Labour voters.
A shame that many will ignore the many qualities of the delightful Paul Nuttall. |
Labour has selected a rabid pro-remain candidate for Stoke. I think Nutall will win and it may well be for the best for Labour if he does. | |
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