Theresa May was 'in tears' and Tory staffer was physically sick on disastrous election night

[Denzil_DC]

A Tory staffer was physically sick and Theresa May burst into tears as the Conservatives’ election night horror unfolded, it has emerged.

The humiliated Prime Minister cried before visiting the Queen having earlier welled up while addressing party activists, it was revealed.

One campaign insider told the Mirror it was like "musical statues" when the shocking exit poll was announced - with no one in the silent Tory HQ wanting to make first move.

When shellshocked Mrs May arrived at 4.30am she told incredulous staff "the party lives to fight another day", the source added.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/theresa-in-tears-tory-staffer-10604243

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I'm sorry, Mrs May, there is no magic sympathy tree.

[riversedge]

1. She will have to work hard now to generate any form of government.

[hrmjustin]

2. The poor dear!

[elleng]

3. Uncertainty, More Than Populism, Is New Normal in Western Politics.

'Theresa May, Britain’s prime minister, has joined a long line of politicians who have gambled that they understood the populist wave overtaking Western politics and lost.

Thursday’s election capped a year in which the latest theory of politics in the populist era perpetually seemed to prove incorrect, as did many predictions of election outcomes. What explains this seeming inexplicability?

Populism’s individual effects, after all, have become well known. Voters oppose party establishments, scramble demographic coalitions and are more motivated by what they oppose than by what they support.

The problem is that, even among leading scholars, how these factors interact in any given election is still poorly understood.

The changes are simply too complex and too new.

Everyone knows that populism has fundamentally altered the rules of Western politics. But no one has deduced what the new rules are.

The result is that politicians and observers enter each election, whether they know it or not, merely guessing. Miscalculations and surprises have become the new normal.'>>>

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/10/world/europe/theresa-may-election-politics-populism-interpreter.html?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016186853

[LisaM]

4. Funny, that kind of describes me on November 9th.

Got news for you, Mrs. May. It doesn't feel any better 7 months later.

[LeftishBrit]

10. And me the day after the referendum.

[MFM008]

5. Have some tea

There PM. It's what happens when you hold hands with Donald J. Maggot.

[Dworkin]

6. Best since Thatcher

Hi,

These are the best tears since the famous Thatcher pic.

D.

[Crowman2009]

7. Aw! Does Thatcher 2.0 want a pity party?

[T_i_B]

8. I honestly wouldn't insult Thatcher like that!

Even at her worst, (which was pretty awful) Thatcher was still better than Theresa May.

That's not to say that Margaret Thatcher was wonderful (far from it!), but more to note just how abysmally poor Theresa May is as PM.

[LeftishBrit]

9. Indeed.

Both may have been equally nasty, but Thatcher was much more competent on a day-to-day basis.

And the one thing that Thatcher wasn't too bad on was Europe - whereas May is awful on that issue!

[Dworkin]

12. Weepers

TiB,

Thatch might have been a better weeper, but we would need a May clip to be sure.

D.

[LeftishBrit]

11. That doesn't sound very strong and stable.