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| − | [[Theresa May]] is the [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]], succeeding [[David Cameron]] on 13 July 2016 and becoming the UK's second female PM, after [[Margaret Thatcher]].<ref>''[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36768148 "PM-in-waiting Theresa May promises 'a better Britain'"]''</ref> | + | [[Theresa May]] is the [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]], succeeding [[David Cameron]] on 13 July 2016 and becoming the UK's second female PM, after [[Margaret Thatcher]].<ref>''[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36768148 "PM-in-waiting Theresa May promises 'a better Britain'"]''</ref> |
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| − | + | Speaking outside 10 Downing Street after being appointed by [[the Queen]], Theresa May said it would be her mission to "build a better Britain". She promised to give the JAMs (people who were "just about managing") more control over their lives and later began appointing Cabinet members, with [[Philip Hammond]] becoming [[Chancellor of the Exchequer]] and [[Boris Johnson]] becoming the new [[Foreign Secretary]].<ref>''[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36788782 "Theresa May vows to be 'one nation' prime minister"]''</ref> | |
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| + | ==Lying to Parliament== | ||
| + | On 28 June 2017, [[SKWAWKBOX]] cited three videos and claimed that Theresa May had lied to Parliament at PMQs when challenged by [[Jeremy Corbyn]] over the Tories’ cuts to local authority funding and the dangers they have created, particularly in relation to the [[Grenfell Tower fire]].<ref>''[https://videopress.com/v/zjyxONXG "Tory cuts led to Grenfell Tower fire"]''</ref> | ||
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| + | "Typically, Theresa May dodged any semblance of an answer to the question of funding. Instead, she tried to answer a question that hadn’t been asked, about who was in government when cladding began to be used on tower blocks. And, again typically, she screwed even that up – and lied outright to the House.<ref>''[https://youtu.be/Il0rVH2thWA "May claimed that the cladding of tower blocks began under Tony Blair’s New Labour government"]''</ref> | ||
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| + | "May claimed that the cladding of tower blocks began under [[Tony Blair]]’s New Labour government. She misled the House by about twenty years – as this 1984 video shows, it in fact began under [[Margaret Thatcher]] during another period of Tory cuts to local government funding.<ref>''[https://youtu.be/upViHb8z4wY "The 1984 documentary that predicted Grenfell Tower fire"]''</ref> | ||
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| + | "Before the Tories began the degradation of Parliament by allowing various ministers to remain in position even after lies and other offences, lying to the [[House of Commons]] used to be an automatic resignation offence. | ||
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| + | "Theresa May has no honour. If she did, she wouldn’t have risked peace in Northern Ireland by getting into bed with the hard-right, paramilitary-linked DUP to bail her out after her abject [[UK/2017 General Election|general election]] failure. So she won’t resign as she should. | ||
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| + | "But if there are any MPs among her back-benchers – or even (though unlikely) her front-bench team – that still have a sense of honour, they ought to be giving serious thought to voting with the [[Labour Party]] on its public service pay amendment this evening. | ||
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| + | "If May won’t do the decent thing herself, others in her party need to do it for her – and bring down a dishonest government led by a lying PM."<ref>[https://skwawkbox.org/2017/06/28/video-theresa-may-lies-outright-to-parliament-over-grenfell-cladding/ "VIDEO: THERESA MAY LIES OUTRIGHT TO PARLIAMENT OVER #GRENFELL #CLADDING"]</ref> | ||
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| + | ==Minority government== | ||
| + | Expecting to achieve a landslide majority and strengthen her hand in the [[Brexit]] negotiations, Theresa May sought and was given parliamentary approval on 19 April 2017 to call a snap [[UK/2017 General Election|General Election]] for 8 June 2017. Contrary to her expectations, however, the Conservatives lost their parliamentary majority in the election, and have to rely on the support of the DUP's ten MPs to continue in government. On 12 June 2017, Theresa May told backbenchers in the 1922 Committee: | ||
| + | :"I got us into this mess, and I'm the one who'll get us out of it." | ||
| + | She also signalled that she may be open to re-calibrating her approach to [[Brexit]], telling MPs that she would listen to "all voices" in the party on the issue.<ref>''[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/theresa-may-tory-election-latest-pm-says-to-mps-she-will-get-out-mess-a7786586.html "Theresa May admits 'I got us into this mess' in meeting with Tory MPs"]''</ref> | ||
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| + | ==Brexit means Brexit== | ||
| + | During her brief and successful 2016 [[Conservative Party]] leadership campaign,<ref>''[http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jul/05/ken-clarke-caught-camera-ridiculing-tory-leadership-candidates-theresa-may-michael-gove "Ken Clarke caught on camera ridiculing Conservative leadership candidates"]''</ref> Theresa May famously declared {{SMWQ | ||
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In her role as Britain's longest serving Home Secretary, Theresa May was aggressive in her support for the [[deep state]]'s [[mass surveillance]]. After [[Edward Snowden]]'s revelations of illegal [[mass surveillance]] by the UK intelligence agencies (especially [[GCHQ]]), Mrs May did not respond by announcing that the perpetrators would be arrested. Instead, in November 2015, she announced new surveillance legislation that explicitly legalised such surveillance while mandated that ISPs assist such surveillance by requiring them to keep logs, for example, the addresses of all web pages visited by their customers in the last 12 months.<ref>''[http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/04/investigatory-powers-bill-the-key-points "Investigatory powers bill: the key points"]''</ref> | In her role as Britain's longest serving Home Secretary, Theresa May was aggressive in her support for the [[deep state]]'s [[mass surveillance]]. After [[Edward Snowden]]'s revelations of illegal [[mass surveillance]] by the UK intelligence agencies (especially [[GCHQ]]), Mrs May did not respond by announcing that the perpetrators would be arrested. Instead, in November 2015, she announced new surveillance legislation that explicitly legalised such surveillance while mandated that ISPs assist such surveillance by requiring them to keep logs, for example, the addresses of all web pages visited by their customers in the last 12 months.<ref>''[http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/04/investigatory-powers-bill-the-key-points "Investigatory powers bill: the key points"]''</ref> | ||
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Theresa May is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding David Cameron on 13 July 2016 and becoming the UK's second female PM, after Margaret Thatcher.[1]
Speaking outside 10 Downing Street after being appointed by the Queen, Theresa May said it would be her mission to "build a better Britain". She promised to give the JAMs (people who were "just about managing") more control over their lives and later began appointing Cabinet members, with Philip Hammond becoming Chancellor of the Exchequer and Boris Johnson becoming the new Foreign Secretary.[2]
Contents
Lying to Parliament
On 28 June 2017, SKWAWKBOX cited three videos and claimed that Theresa May had lied to Parliament at PMQs when challenged by Jeremy Corbyn over the Tories’ cuts to local authority funding and the dangers they have created, particularly in relation to the Grenfell Tower fire.[3]
"Typically, Theresa May dodged any semblance of an answer to the question of funding. Instead, she tried to answer a question that hadn’t been asked, about who was in government when cladding began to be used on tower blocks. And, again typically, she screwed even that up – and lied outright to the House.[4]
"May claimed that the cladding of tower blocks began under Tony Blair’s New Labour government. She misled the House by about twenty years – as this 1984 video shows, it in fact began under Margaret Thatcher during another period of Tory cuts to local government funding.[5]
"Before the Tories began the degradation of Parliament by allowing various ministers to remain in position even after lies and other offences, lying to the House of Commons used to be an automatic resignation offence.
"Theresa May has no honour. If she did, she wouldn’t have risked peace in Northern Ireland by getting into bed with the hard-right, paramilitary-linked DUP to bail her out after her abject general election failure. So she won’t resign as she should.
"But if there are any MPs among her back-benchers – or even (though unlikely) her front-bench team – that still have a sense of honour, they ought to be giving serious thought to voting with the Labour Party on its public service pay amendment this evening.
"If May won’t do the decent thing herself, others in her party need to do it for her – and bring down a dishonest government led by a lying PM."[6]
Minority government
Expecting to achieve a landslide majority and strengthen her hand in the Brexit negotiations, Theresa May sought and was given parliamentary approval on 19 April 2017 to call a snap General Election for 8 June 2017. Contrary to her expectations, however, the Conservatives lost their parliamentary majority in the election, and have to rely on the support of the DUP's ten MPs to continue in government. On 12 June 2017, Theresa May told backbenchers in the 1922 Committee:
- "I got us into this mess, and I'm the one who'll get us out of it."
She also signalled that she may be open to re-calibrating her approach to Brexit, telling MPs that she would listen to "all voices" in the party on the issue.[7]
Brexit means Brexit
During her brief and successful 2016 Conservative Party leadership campaign,[8] Theresa May famously declared
“Brexit means Brexit, and we're going to make a success of it.”
Theresa May (July 2016) [9]
Home Secretary
In her role as Britain's longest serving Home Secretary, Theresa May was aggressive in her support for the deep state's mass surveillance. After Edward Snowden's revelations of illegal mass surveillance by the UK intelligence agencies (especially GCHQ), Mrs May did not respond by announcing that the perpetrators would be arrested. Instead, in November 2015, she announced new surveillance legislation that explicitly legalised such surveillance while mandated that ISPs assist such surveillance by requiring them to keep logs, for example, the addresses of all web pages visited by their customers in the last 12 months.[10]
Affiliations
- CChange - Former Board member
A Quote by Theresa May
| Page | Quote | Date |
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| "Non-violent extremism" | “non-violent extremism goes unchallenged, the values that bind our society together fragment.” | 2015 |
Appointments by Theresa May
Related Quotation
| Page | Quote | Date |
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| Document:Mrs. May & MI5 In Disarray | “Under the stiff carapace is a hollowness, a lack of empathy, language or political imagination.” | 5 June 2017 |
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Munich Security Conference/2018 | 12 February 2018 | 14 February 2018 | Germany Munich Bavaria | The 54th Munich Security Conference |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2017 | 17 January 2017 | 20 January 2017 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | 2950 known participants, including prominently Bill Gates. "Offers a platform for the most effective and engaged leaders to achieve common goals for greater societal leadership." |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2018 | 23 January 2018 | 26 January 2018 | Switzerland | ~2200 of the super-rich meet to talk about "Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World" |
Related Documents
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:British military presence near Venezuela ‘extremely concerning’ | Article | 5 February 2019 | Phil Miller | “Britain’s recent history of catastrophic military interventions should rule out any UK participation in Donald Trump’s attempts to destabilise a democratically elected government in Venezuela.” |
| Document:Election 2017: finally, a real choice for Britain's voters | Article | 17 May 2017 | Raoul Martinez | No wonder the billionaire-owned media are attacking Jeremy Corbyn with everything they've got. But we the people can still win. |
| Document:England prepares to leave the world | Article | 4 November 2016 | Neal Ascherson | "If you believe you are a citizen of the world you are a citizen of nowhere." Mrs May will pass into folklore with that line, just as Mrs Thatcher is remembered for "There is no such thing as society." |
| Document:First Recorded Successful Novichok Synthesis was in 2016 – By Iran, in Cooperation with the OPCW | blog post | 17 March 2018 | Craig Murray | Beginning in late 2016, Iranian scientists succeeded in synthesising a number of Novichoks in full cooperation with the OPCW. This makes a complete nonsense of Theresa May’s “of a type developed by Russia” line, used to Parliament and the UN Security Council. |
| Document:Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell accused of anti-Semitism over Razan al-Najjar image | Article | 7 June 2018 | Mike Sivier | Mrs May couldn’t care any less about the death of this young woman than Mr Netanyahu – she is deeply in cahoots with the Israeli government |
| Document:Huawei Hypocrisy | blog post | 7 May 2019 | Craig Murray | Former Deputy PM Nick Clegg said GCHQ's ability "to hack anything from handsets to whole networks … needs to be much better understood". |
| Document:MI6, Theresa May and the Manchester attack | Article | 30 May 2017 | Jonathan Cook | And so the story of MI6 and Theresa May, their sponsorship of Islamic jihadism, and the likely “blowback” the UK just experienced in Manchester is a sleeping dog no one seems willing to disturb. |
| Document:Manchester Alleged Suicide Bomber Linked to Libya Islamic Fighting Group | Article | 24 May 2017 | 'Tony Cartalucci' | The British government is directly responsible for the Manchester Arena bombing. It had foreknowledge of LIFG’s existence and likely its activities within British territory and not only failed to act, but appears to have actively harboured this community of extremists for its own geopolitical and domestic agenda. |
| Document:Margaret Thatcher Ruined Britain | blog post | 30 December 2021 | Clifford Thurlow | Margaret Thatcher ruined Britain with her hard-right policies and the five Conservative prime ministers, since her party knifed her in the back the Tory way, have carelessly kicked over the remains. Each has been worse than the last in descending order – John Major, David Cameron, Theresa May, liar Boris Johnson and finally Liz Truss, a puppet with a wooden heart and personal photographer. |
| Document:Mrs. May & MI5 In Disarray | webpage | 11 June 2017 | Matthew Jamison | |
| Document:Nothing has Changed | Article | 10 November 2017 | John Warren | The ill-judged words of the present Prime Minister perhaps accidentally illuminate something important about the true character of the Conservative Party: “Nothing has Changed”. |
| Document:Novichok And Theresa May's "45 Minute Moment" | Article | 15 March 2018 | Is Britain off to war (in Syria) to save the government from all sorts of disasters back at home? Challenging a Prime Minister in the midst of an international conflict is always difficult – just look at the vitriol thrown at Jeremy Corbyn for doing so yesterday – who was proved right in the face of the same accusations with Tony Blair. | |
| Document:President Abbas’ Rebuke to Theresa May over Palestine | blog post | 24 September 2017 | Craig Murray | The ignored part of the Balfour Declaration to which Abbas referred is of course: “It being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine.” |
| Document:Project Brexit | Comment | 24 June 2017 | David | Project Brexit: "Doomed to Failure" |
| Document:Robert Fisk visits the Syria clinic at the centre of a global crisis | Wikispooks Page | 17 April 2018 | Robert Fisk | "A Syrian colonel I came across behind one of these buildings asked if I wanted to see how deep the tunnels were. I stopped after well over a mile when he cryptically observed that 'this tunnel might reach as far as Britain'. Ah yes, Ms May, I remembered, whose air strikes had been so intimately connected to this place of tunnels and dust. And gas?" |
| Document:The Brutal Legacy of Bloody Sunday is a Powerful Warning to Those Hoping to Save Brexit | Article | 19 March 2019 | Patrick Cockburn | What we are seeing is the two most divisive issues in modern British history coming together in a toxic blend: these are Brexit and the Irish question. |
| Document:The Four Horsemen Gallop By | blog post | 11 April 2018 | Craig Murray | The notion that Britain will take part in military action against Syria with neither investigation of the evidence nor a parliamentary vote is worrying indeed. Without Security Council authorisation, any such action is illegal in any event. |
| Document:The Paradise Papers and HSBC. Who | Article | 14 November 2017 | Nicholas Wilson | The corruption surrounding Theresa May's seduction of Saudi Aramco to hold its stock market launch (IPO) at the London Stock Exchange next year has involved bribes, lobbying for HSBC and changing the rules by the FCA |
| Document:The Real Reason Theresa May’s Brexit Has Failed | Article | 2 March 2019 | T. J. Coles | So, the choice faced by ordinary British people is between a neoliberal EU supported by millionaires like Kenneth Clarke or an ultra-neoliberal Brexit supported by multimillionaires like Jacob Rees-Mogg. Meanwhile, ordinary working-class people pay the price for these elite games, as usual. |
| Document:The Stench of Imperialism: The Statement of Theresa May | Article | 20 April 2018 | Christopher Black | British Prime Minister Lies to the Nation on Friday 13 April 2018 |
| Document:The Theresa May government's nuclear obsession is a betrayal of democracy | Article | 19 December 2017 | Oliver Tickell | So here's the key question: how can a government that has declared in its election manifesto its commitment to delivering the lowest cost power in Europe, and its utter impartiality in deciding between any one power generation technology over any other, justify an obsessively pro-nuclear energy policy that could land every household in Britain with a £12,600 nuclear tax? |
| Document:The great con that ruined Britain | Article | 3 April 2016 | Peter Hitchens | Peter Hitchens, the repentant Thatcherite, has second thoughts about privatisation: if it’s all been so beneficial, why do so many of the containers that arrive in British ports, full of expensive imports, leave this country empty? |
| Document:Theresa May pushing for UK intervention in Syria following Manchester attack | Article | 25 May 2017 | Whitney Webb | Jeremy Corbyn Says What We All Knew: The War On Terror Isn’t Working |
| Document:Theresa May's Father | Article | 2017 | Johnny Vedmore | So what is it that you fear Mrs May? The truth about your colleagues, or is it something much closer to home? Maybe May is terrified of people connecting her with the name Brasier? |
| Document:Theresa May's Misconduct In Public Office | Article | 9 March 2019 | David Wolchover Joshua Silver | Theresa May's Misconduct in Public Office offence arises from what is alleged to have been her wrongful activation on 29 March 2017 of Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union |
| Document:Theresa May's personal role in facilitating terror attacks | video | 5 June 2017 | Dan Glazebrook | Theresa May and her Cabinet are complicit in murder. They are war criminals. If the principles established by the Nuremberg Tribunal after World War II were applied, they would be hung. |
| Document:UK Government Should Cancel Prince William’s Visit to Apartheid Israel | Article | 18 April 2018 | BDS National Committee (BNC) | UK Government Should Cancel Prince William’s Visit to Apartheid Israel |
| Document:Where we go from here - Britain after Brexit | Article | 28 August 2016 | Anthony Barnett | Analysis of the so-called "Brexit" referendum result and prognosis for the future of the UK by a "passionate European" who wants to "keep the European flame alive". |
| Document:‘No slither of evidence’ against Russia over Skripal attack, George Galloway tells RT | Video | 28 March 2018 | George Galloway | George Galloway concludes: "The OPCW, which is currently examining samples of the nerve agent used against the Skripals, will presumably be lent upon to obfuscate the outcome. No one will ever know the truth.” |
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References
- ↑ "PM-in-waiting Theresa May promises 'a better Britain'"
- ↑ "Theresa May vows to be 'one nation' prime minister"
- ↑ "Tory cuts led to Grenfell Tower fire"
- ↑ "May claimed that the cladding of tower blocks began under Tony Blair’s New Labour government"
- ↑ "The 1984 documentary that predicted Grenfell Tower fire"
- ↑ "VIDEO: THERESA MAY LIES OUTRIGHT TO PARLIAMENT OVER #GRENFELL #CLADDING"
- ↑ "Theresa May admits 'I got us into this mess' in meeting with Tory MPs"
- ↑ "Ken Clarke caught on camera ridiculing Conservative leadership candidates"
- ↑ http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/theresa-may-brexit-means-brexit-conservative-leadership-no-attempt-remain-inside-eu-leave-europe-a7130596.html The Independent
- ↑ "Investigatory powers bill: the key points"
