“Mrs May”, as my friend comically likes her referred to as, has perhaps been the most useless of cabinet ministers. Yes, Andrew Lansley lives on another planet in terms of thinking he is organised and good with communication, but he has been DOING things. Yes, Michael Gove is the most dangerous, pious and arrogant SS of Education, who is doing his best to make schools elitist and marketised (and I’m still fighting him, every day). But Auntie May has taken lack of understanding, lack of research, poor communication, lack of action and inability to listen to new heights.
From her farcical attempt to sound tough by claiming a cat stopped deportation of an alleged criminal, to her recent handling of the Qatada case, she is showing she is totally out of her depth. Out of her depth as a human being in terms of logic, reason and a dose of intelligence. Oh, no, I forgot – everything is down to her apart from the signing off of an appeal to the ECHR, that’s the civil servants fault, of course.
I cannot think of a single thing that she, as Home Secretary, has done. At all. The biggest thing was to re-establish a border police control force, but that was a manifesto pledge from both parties in the coalition anyway. She’s had bumble after bumble, and her latest rhetorical nonsense on how Abu Qatada apparently represents a huge “threat” to the UK is beyond funny, it’s embarrassing. Whilst her kind-of counterpart Hilary Clinton has been going around the world trying to tackle bigotry, racism, homophobia and trying to calm down the hysteria of nuclear-based states (come to the UK, please), Theresa May has been fighting hard to make the Olympics secure.
Making the Olympics secure by saying peaceful protesters can’t protest as it would make the UK look bad (as if banning them doesn’t make her look like a foolish dictator). Making the Olympics secure by spending a vast amount of money on RAF, Navy and Army coverage of the south-west, with Typhoon jets patrolling the skies and a warship on the coast, or perhaps the Thames. Soldiers and police who are going to turn areas of London into no-go areas, when it’s free space, so I fully support Occupy members who will peaceful challenge that, as it’s our right to walk where we like (save MoD bases, of course).
The latest shambles over the Abu Qatada case and the handling, or not, of the border police force and controls shows that not only has Theresa May no real understanding of UK and EU law, she has practically no ability to manage people. A Secretary of State needs people management skills as well as knowledge of their subject area. She has neither.
I’d struggle to accept this person as a good MP, never mind a Secretary of State, and least of all the perhaps 3rd most senior position in government.
I’d ask the government to get rid of her. I doubt they’d listen, and they’d like my follow-up question even less – which is to get rid of all Tory ministers.
Please, though.



