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Everyone’s making the same joke about Theresa May’s embarrassing U-turn [TWEETS]

John Shafthauer by John Shafthauer
16 August 2017
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Theresa May has been forced into an embarrassing U-turn over her ‘dementia tax’. Although older people will still have savings and assets taken away from them to fund social care. There’s just potentially going to be a cap on how much that will be. A cap which May allegedly planned all along, but which wasn’t mentioned in her manifesto and still hasn’t been given a figure. Despite the fact that she is the one who called this unexpected election.

Weakness

As a result of this absolute mess, many people are making very similar jokes about our current PM’s alleged strength and stability:

Nothing like a strong and stable U-turn. https://t.co/YDfDlktYUm

— Gary Lineker (@GaryLineker) May 22, 2017

Is Theresa May about to announce U-turn on social care? Would that make her strong and stable, or weak and wobbly? pic.twitter.com/bdPqDzYuRk

— Michael Crick (@MichaelLCrick) May 22, 2017

The right are also picking up on this display of weakness and instability:

U-turn on the budget and now a U-turn on the manifesto. This lady is for turning.

— Nigel Farage MP (@Nigel_Farage) May 22, 2017

Our editorial @EveningStandard on May's u-turn on social care. At least this Manifesto wasn't carved onto a stone… https://t.co/qBj4aPV1IX

— George Osborne (@George_Osborne) May 22, 2017

Dishonesty

Another key complaint is honesty. Despite the fact that, just last week, The Daily Mail wrote on its front page: “at last, a PM not afraid to be honest with you”.

Why is @theresa_may so serially addicted to dishonesty? She makes stuff up over, and over, and over again. #YouCanTrustTheresa pic.twitter.com/4KSJ9RR9XO

— Owen Jones (@owenjonesjourno) May 22, 2017

https://twitter.com/jessicaelgot/status/866616417159974912

Trouble with Tory u-turns is they're just as likely to u-turn on their previous u-turn as they are to u-turn on their subsequent u-turn.

— Frank Owen's Legendary Paintbrush🥀🇵🇸🇾🇪 (@OwenPaintbrush) May 22, 2017

Cowardice

Other people are pointing out that it’s unsurprising that May is too scared to stand up for her own policy. This being from a leader who avoids meeting the public, refuses to face the leader of the opposition, and refuses to give us a real account of who she is beyond meaningless slogans.

Theresa May's never fought for anything – except her own career. Spineless & terrified – not fit to govern Britain

— Paul Mason (@paulmasonnews) May 22, 2017

Laura Kuenssberg tells Theresa May her social care U-turn "looks like panic in the face of the opposition".

— Kevin Schofield (@KevinASchofield) May 22, 2017

And people also aren’t forgetting the role the media must play in not letting May off the hook with this:

https://twitter.com/alexnunns/status/866615435818672129

The same papers which gleefully backed the #dementiatax will be saying "see, Theresa May listens" when the Tories u-turn. https://t.co/nHYjpcKKk7

— Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani) May 22, 2017

Wrong and unable

This election is showing the country what people who follow politics have known for a while. May is not cut out to be Prime Minister. She refuses to answer questions. She U-turns. And she blames others for her mistakes; in this latest instance blaming Jeremy Corbyn for pointing out the problems with her manifesto that she’s trying to spin her way out of.

It’s important that we see this U-turn for what it is. An attempt to minimise bad publicity while maintaining a policy that will penalise people for becoming old and in need of care.

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