How May has the brass neck to criticise Johnson, albeit by implication, for "telling people what you think they want to hear", when her leadership contest victory was achieved in 2016 by exactly the same means, is beyond belief (If Mrs May`s parting shot was meant to deliver hard truths, it missed the target, 18/07/19). She promised not only to "unite the party", but to sort out Brexit and "make Britain work for everyone" (Theresa May wins first round of voting in Tory leadership race, 05/06/16). May pledged more on the steps of her new Downing Street home, but her fights for the "just about managing", and against "burning injustices" ended with that same speech, whilst the "privileged few" have, because of her government`s ludicrously unfair education and fiscal policies, extended their hold on British society.
With no workers` representatives on company boards, May even wants us to see her "naming and shaming" policy as a "modern industrial strategy", even though it has had no effect on companies` lack of investment, their short-termism or overall corporate greed. If the "refusal to shift from a rigid ideology" is the reason for "Britain`s predicament", there can be no excuse for her continuation of callous and unnecessary austerity policies, based as they were on the Tory belief in shrinking the state (Britain moving towards a dark place of hatred and a form of absolutism - May, 18/07/19). With victims of the Windrush scandal still suffering, and memories of the "Go home vans" of 2013 still strong, even May`s criticism of Trump`s most recent racist outburst has to be taken at face value. The editorial`s description of her legacy as "flimsy" is more than generous for a prime minister whose duplicity has been as equally evident as that of her predecessor!
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