After weeks of post referendum uncertainty, Theresa May has by default, become the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
I remember Ms May from her time as Home Secretary. I remember the headlines she made with her stance on immigration (anti people), her push for the UK to leave the European Convention on Human Rights (anti people) and her position on legalising adoption for gay couples (anti people). Apart from that, I don't really know that much about her.
Yesterday was a critical moment in UK history. The youngest ever UK Prime Minister to take pension spoke his last speech outside Downing Street flanked by his wife and kids. Afterwards, the second only woman to hold office as Prime Minister spoke her first speech under the gaze of her husband, and the world.
The BBC were broadcasting May's drive to Downing Street when Dragon and I got home yesterday. We were both tired, bedraggled from being caught in the rain on our way back. Dragon wanted her dinner but it would have to wait. History was being made as we shrugged out of our raincoats and switched on the TV.
Look, I told her as we watched Cameron approach the lectern. That's the old Prime Minister. He's leaving.
We listened as Cameron listed all the amazing things he claimed to have done; most remarkably his belief that Britain was now stronger than ever before. After that I saw his mouth move on the screen but only heard:
BlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlahMeMeMeMeMeMeMe.
Which was probably what five year old Dragon heard too, for all the sense it made.
Then it was May's turn.
Is that the new one? asked Dragon
Yes. Let's listen to what she has to say.
Maybe the media buzz of her being the second Thatcher had affected me for when May spoke, I had expected a graver, more imperious tone. May's pitch was warbly and thin. Not that that stopped her getting her message across. The speech she gave was strong and centrist. Her speech reached out through the media and slapped the world in the face.
Wake up, she seemed to say. I am here and here I am.
I was left in no doubt that here was a person determined to make her mark as PM. She seemed a force to be reckoned with,. She seemed like a leader.
It was only a speech though and May's real reckoning is yet to come. I have my fingers crossed.
What did you think? I asked Dragon who had been riveted to the broadcast.
Good, was her conclusion, Can I have a biscuit?
Which seemed as apt a summary as any.
I remember Ms May from her time as Home Secretary. I remember the headlines she made with her stance on immigration (anti people), her push for the UK to leave the European Convention on Human Rights (anti people) and her position on legalising adoption for gay couples (anti people). Apart from that, I don't really know that much about her.
Yesterday was a critical moment in UK history. The youngest ever UK Prime Minister to take pension spoke his last speech outside Downing Street flanked by his wife and kids. Afterwards, the second only woman to hold office as Prime Minister spoke her first speech under the gaze of her husband, and the world.
The BBC were broadcasting May's drive to Downing Street when Dragon and I got home yesterday. We were both tired, bedraggled from being caught in the rain on our way back. Dragon wanted her dinner but it would have to wait. History was being made as we shrugged out of our raincoats and switched on the TV.
Look, I told her as we watched Cameron approach the lectern. That's the old Prime Minister. He's leaving.
We listened as Cameron listed all the amazing things he claimed to have done; most remarkably his belief that Britain was now stronger than ever before. After that I saw his mouth move on the screen but only heard:
BlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlahMeMeMeMeMeMeMe.
Which was probably what five year old Dragon heard too, for all the sense it made.
Then it was May's turn.
Is that the new one? asked Dragon
Yes. Let's listen to what she has to say.
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| Theresa May launches herself on the world at large |
Maybe the media buzz of her being the second Thatcher had affected me for when May spoke, I had expected a graver, more imperious tone. May's pitch was warbly and thin. Not that that stopped her getting her message across. The speech she gave was strong and centrist. Her speech reached out through the media and slapped the world in the face.
Wake up, she seemed to say. I am here and here I am.
I was left in no doubt that here was a person determined to make her mark as PM. She seemed a force to be reckoned with,. She seemed like a leader.
It was only a speech though and May's real reckoning is yet to come. I have my fingers crossed.
What did you think? I asked Dragon who had been riveted to the broadcast.
Good, was her conclusion, Can I have a biscuit?
Which seemed as apt a summary as any.
