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Theresa May. 24 July 2019

orwin 3y ago
I'm not from the UK, but from the other side of the english Channel, i both agree with this take, and disagree. I was working a lot with the EU at the time (european research program/BOOST4.0/H2020, i was basically the new sysadmin/dev that was send into those meetings because i was the new guy and nobody wanted to do it)(that's when my hatred of ATOS started, corrupt little shits). I managed to understand some stuff (not much) during big informal lunches, dinners and stuff (i was paid poorly, but the benefits were great, i think i never ate this well :) ). From what i've understood from the European Brexit guy (who was also French, forgot his name), May did absolutely nothing for two years. She was absolutely blind to the issues that would arise and was focus on internal affairs. The people who were nominated to take care of foreign policies, as well as some UK assembly members kept delaying a lot of meetings (the one concerning me in particular: not a word on the funding of common research projects, nor on the handling of data. Do we keep london data in the air pollution research? Can you at least put a license on that? No? Yes? Do we scrap it?). I was less there in 2018 and out by 2019, but if i managed to hear properly, she was surprised of the work that still had to be done, then had long meetings with the EU brexit guy, then starting doing shit, added bureaucrats to the subjects. Not sure if anyone was sacked, but everything started moving once she was made aware of the issues, but it was a bit too late. In the end, she agreed to a deal (that was quite fair) that she did not wrote, but that she did read (i heard a lot of noise about how the UK signed the deal without reading it: that was under Johnson, i'm a 100% sure she read the deal thoroughly, probably missed some caveats because of the time constraints, but that was mostly fair). So sane: sure. Competent? That's a good question. I'd say yes, mostly, once she noticed something was wrong, she tried to fix it, maybe a bit late, but still. I think the late awareness wasn't totally her fault. Maybe her brexit guy was incompetent, or maybe he wanted to cripple her, either way she choose poor subordinate.

I'm not from the UK, but from the other side of the english Channel, i both agree with this take, and disagree. I was working a lot with the EU at the time (european research program/BOOST4.0/H2020, i was basically the new sysadmin/dev that was send into those meetings because i was the new guy and nobody wanted to do it)(that's when my hatred of ATOS started, corrupt little shits). I managed to understand some stuff (not much) during big informal lunches, dinners and stuff (i was paid poorly, but the benefits were great, i think i never ate this well :) ). From what i've understood from the European Brexit guy (who was also French, forgot his name), May did absolutely nothing for two years. She was absolutely blind to the issues that would arise and was focus on internal affairs. The people who were nominated to take care of foreign policies, as well as some UK assembly members kept delaying a lot of meetings (the one concerning me in particular: not a word on the funding of common research projects, nor on the handling of data. Do we keep london data in the air pollution research? Can you at least put a license on that? No? Yes? Do we scrap it?). I was less there in 2018 and out by 2019, but if i managed to hear properly, she was surprised of the work that still had to be done, then had long meetings with the EU brexit guy, then starting doing shit, added bureaucrats to the subjects. Not sure if anyone was sacked, but everything started moving once she was made aware of the issues, but it was a bit too late. In the end, she agreed to a deal (that was quite fair) that she did not wrote, but that she did read (i heard a lot of noise about how the UK signed the deal without reading it: that was under Johnson, i'm a 100% sure she read the deal thoroughly, probably missed some caveats because of the time constraints, but that was mostly fair). So sane: sure. Competent? That's a good question. I'd say yes, mostly, once she noticed something was wrong, she tried to fix it, maybe a bit late, but still. I think the late awareness wasn't totally her fault. Maybe her brexit guy was incompetent, or maybe he wanted to cripple her, either way she choose poor subordinate.