{"id":37325,"date":"2017-05-26T09:31:49","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T08:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=37325"},"modified":"2017-05-26T09:31:49","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T08:31:49","slug":"its-time-to-state-the-obvious-theresa-may-is-really-not-very-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2017\/05\/26\/its-time-to-state-the-obvious-theresa-may-is-really-not-very-good\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s time to state the obvious: Theresa May is really not very good"},"content":{"rendered":"

It's time to state the obvious: Theresa May is really not very good.<\/p>\n

She failed as Home Secretary to control migration and is daft enough to set herself the same targets now.<\/p>\n

She dithered over Brexit and has no plan how to deal with it now that's her task: the Tory manifesto makes that clear.<\/p>\n

Her first budget had one idea and it was a disaster and had to be abandoned.<\/p>\n

He first manifesto had just one big idea and it too has been abandoned.<\/p>\n

These really are measures of incompetence. But I accept people would expect me to say that. So take the word of Matt Chorley of The Times who is madly anti-Labour (as you would expect) and who wrote in the Red Box email<\/a> (which is free and I consider essential daily reading) this morning:<\/p>\n

Three weeks ago I wrote that despite being likened to Margaret Thatcher<\/b> and Jesus<\/b>, May was actually not very good.<\/a> She is fine at reading things out but terrible at answering questions or responding to criticism. I was surprised by the number of senior Tories, under sworn secrecy, who got in touch to say that in the privacy of their own thoughts, they agreed.<\/p>\n

Support within for the PM in the Tory party, even among ministers, is wide but pretty shallow.<\/p>\n

I admit now I made two mistakes in that column. First, I predicted the correction in public opinion would come after June 8, when May had to make big decisions and her mettle was tested. It has come much sooner.<\/p>\n

And I ended by saying: \"But it's fine because she is going to win, and win big, and I will be removed from my bed in the middle of the night to be taken to a camp and re-educated.\"<\/p>\n

I admit I was wrong. The idea that May will win big now looks, if not impossible, in serious doubt.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Quite so, on all counts.<\/p>\n

She won the leadership ahead of a useless field but that offered no evidence of support: no one had to vote for her. And now her vacuity is very clear.<\/p>\n

It's well known that Jeremy Corbyn and I have had our differences. But he's a master of political management in comparison with May.<\/p>\n

What is more he has two vital qualities she will never be able to claim. \u00a0They are integrity and consistency. And right now people are realising that they matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s time to state the obvious: Theresa May is really not very good. She failed as Home Secretary to control migration and is daft enough
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