Posted on 07/20/2016 10:33:15 AM PDT by NRx
Theresa May was utterly brutal with Jeremy Corbyn at PMQs today. She mocked the Labour leader repeatedly, leaving the Tory benches delighted and the Labour benches looking more miserable than ever.
Once again, Corbyn’s problem was his inability to think on his feet. He asked May about Boris Johnson saying that some of Barack Obama’s view came from him being ‘part-Kenyan’ and his use of the word ‘piccaninnies’. May didn’t defend the new Foreign Secretary, instead choosing to answer a different bit of Corbyn’s question. But the Labour leader failed, as he so often does, to properly follow up on this.
Corbyn then walked into a trap. He asked May about job insecurity, which allowed her to deliver a little comedy routine about how Labour MPs might know an unscrupulous boss who doesn’t listen to his workers and exploits the rules for his own benefit. She then leaned on the despatch box, and asked Corbyn, ‘remind you of anyone?’ The comic timing was perfect and the Tory benches cheered her to the rafters.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.spectator.co.uk ...
I’ve always found the back-and-forth among members of the British Parliament much more entertaining than what goes on in the US Congress.
“I have often heard members from Labour ask what the conservatives have ever done for women? Well they just keep making us Prime Minister.”
I don’t get that last part...................British humour?.................
She was referring to the fact that union leaders will egg their members on with slogans like ‘Full Pay to the Last Day’ and when they all get laid off, they just move on to a different industry without losing their jobs.
I agree. Neither Obama nor Hillary would do well in that setting. They can’t think on their feet. Slick would excel, as would Cruz, Christie, Newt, et al.
I don’t get that last part...................British humour?.................
The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, a far left moonbat even by European standards, lost a vote of confidence from his MPs by a crushing margin (roughly 4:1). But he refused resign even when he couldn’t find enough MPs to staff his shadow cabinet. So he has given some of them double portfolios. May was taunting him.
May is clever and witty and has a clear advantage over the addled Corbyn. But she’s still a wet Tory and I don’t trust her one whit on Brexit or immigration.
Quote of the year in British politics--no contest. :-)
She ain’t no Thatcher, that’s for sure.
Hm........obviously this lot is easily amused. As for stature, May will never remind anyone of Pitt, Palmerston, Churchill or Thatcher.
Can you imagine a confrontation like this between Gingrich and Obama?
Sadiq Khan will inevitably become Labour Leader.
Someone needs to educate May hard and fast on Sharia Law.
NO, they don't. This idea that May 'supports Sharia' is politically motivated spin. The comments she made were in the context of the fact that she had just had the guts to set up an inquiry into so-called 'Sharia Courts' in the UK. She was taking steps to lessen their potential impact. The whole thrust of what she was saying was that such bodies could only have any validity in cases where their rulings are entirely consistent with British law - that Britain has one common law and no body can be set up to make decisions contrary to it.
Many of the bodies in question already follow that principle - the main issue they address is divorce and part of the divorce process involves negotiation and mediation. People have the right to use any mediators they choose and many British Muslims choose mediators who apply Sharia principles and British statute law on divorce at the same time, to come up with a mediated settlement that meets British legal standards and is consistent with the religion. In any case where there is a conflict, British law supersedes religious law. May's comments were simply reassuring people that that would still be permitted - her review was intended to find cases where that rule is being broken, not where it is being followed.
It actually really worries me to see one of the few times a British politician has stood up to the actions of the radical Islamists and told them they need to stay in line being spun into some idea that she supports them.
I am skeptical until see documentaion from the past about her entire intent and actual actions.
I am skeptical until see documentaion from the past about her entire intent and actual actions.
Key quotes from Theresa May in the article:
This review will be a full, independent review to explore whether, and to what extent, the application of Sharia law may be incompatible with the law in England and Wales, such as legislation around equality.
The review will also examine the ways in which Sharia may be being misused, or exploited, in a way that may discriminate against certain groups, undermine shared values or cause social harms.
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A number of women have reportedly been victims of what appear to be discriminatory decisions taken by Sharia councils and that is a significant concern.
There is only one rule of law in our country, which provides rights and security for every citizen.
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Go back until last year, when she first announced the review was going to be set up and you get more balanced stories like this one.
Home Secretary Theresa May pledges blitz on hate preachers and Sharia courts
Quote from the article:
She told the audience at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors that an independent review of Sharia courts was among her priorities for the next Tory government.
There are around 85 of the Islamic courts across the country.
They operate mainly from mosques, settling divorces and financial and family disputes according to religious principle The system, which Mrs May said was used to discriminate against women, will be examined to ensure it supports “British values”.
In the lead up to last years general election she pledged to set up the inquiry into Sharia courts. It took about a year for it to get set up and it's only really just started and won't report until next year, but the pledge was clear and was honoured and at the time she made it, and she set the inquiry up, she would have been assuming she was going to be Home Secretary for the forseeable future.
She has been consistent long term on this issue - about making sure that British law is observed and takes precedence as it should over any religious considerations.
People taking one little quote out of context after she'd set up the inquiry really are being misleading. She was simply reassuring people that if they were following the rules they'd be fine, in the light of attacks from the usual suspects on the left who were trying to portray a sensible review as being 'racist'.
Thank you for that.
L
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