While you were out enjoying the May bank holiday, Theresa May was trying and failing to prove she’s not hiding from the public, isn’t the ultimate robot politician and definitely is “strong and stable”. Well, here’s how it went…
Saturday: Theresa May’s latest attempt to “get out and meet the voters” in Scotland began and ended in disaster. As this video of her excruciatingly awkward visit to Aberdeenshire shows, the PM was waved away from the first house she approached and it was all down hill from there…
What happens when you try to canvass “real” people and simply you can’t find any? This is great from @SamSkyNews: pic.twitter.com/JRO6apFnWb
— Darren McCaffrey (@DMcCaffreySKY) May 1, 2017
Sunday: May found it difficult to crowbar the words “strong and stable” into her answer over why so many NHS nurses are using food banks in a car crash interview with Andrew Marr…
Theresa May questioned on nurses using food banks #marr pic.twitter.com/LAJy6st8AW
— The Andrew Marr Show (@MarrShow) April 30, 2017
Monday: A highly embarrassing account of a discussion between May and European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker is published by German newspaper FAZ and summarised in this Twitter thread which goes viral…
Today's FAZ report on May's disastrous dinner with Juncker – briefed by senior Commission sources – is absolutely damning.
— Jeremy Cliffe (@JeremyCliffe) April 30, 2017
12) May seemed surprised by this and seemed to the EU side not to have been fully briefed.
— Jeremy Cliffe (@JeremyCliffe) April 30, 2017
16) "The more I hear, the more sceptical I become" said Juncker (this was only half way through the dinner)
— Jeremy Cliffe (@JeremyCliffe) April 30, 2017
22) Next morning at c7am Juncker called Merkel on her mobile, said May living in another galaxy & totally deluding herself
— Jeremy Cliffe (@JeremyCliffe) April 30, 2017
25) Juncker's team now think it more likely than not that Brexit talks will collapse & hope Brits wake up to harsh realities in time.
— Jeremy Cliffe (@JeremyCliffe) April 30, 2017
Things can only get better…