Yes and agree. One notes in some of her opening remarks, she wondered why the recent economic benefits had not flowed right down the socioeconomic ladder?

Could it be, we finally have a conservative Leader who finally understands that trickle down economic theory just does not work in practice, that greed and pettifogging opportunism will almost always triumph over idealism or a nonsense, if truly believed mantra? And none more nonsensical than the old hoary one, the government has no business in business!

Simply put, the Government needs to get back to the core responsibilities and business of government, rolling out cash cow essential service, affordable housing, rescuing the water the flows from the skies from the hands of greedy paper shuffling profit demanding barons!

We need to go back to the future, when we the people owned and operated all our power stations and energy provision for the powerful social good and and increased manufacturing opportunities, jobs and growth it gave us and indeed controlled the flow of capital and at its natural cost to us!

Given it is these two economic pillars alone every western style economy rest on as its only true support!

Private enterprise and a free market system can lift billions from the yoke of enduring poverty and it has, but it must be regulated free enterprise and a world of increasing opportunity! Rather than the virtual white anting for unearned profit of the very economic pillars that support ours and indeed, every other western style economy!

And let's return cash cow essentiaL cash cow essential service to the rightful owners, we the people, and because that's where true social justice has its very foundation!

One just doesn't need good ideas or vision to corner an absolutely essential market; just entirely counterproductive profit gouging greed!
Alan B.

A nice enough essay.

Mr Fletcher, like most punters, gets his facts mixed up in matters of security intelligence. Where he says "Theresa May’s previous record as head of MI5"

WRONG!!

Here's a list of former DGs of MI5 https://www.mi5.gov.uk/former-dgs - and she ain't on it.

Having political authority (as a UK Gov Secretary/Minister) over different agencies doesn't make her "Head". Otherwise as PM she could now be described as the "Head" of each and every 1,000+ Government agencies (and Departments) in the UK.

The UK's Security Service do indeed prefer "MI5" because the actual acronym would be the unfortunate "SS".

What a boring last 30 days we've had:

1. BREXIT

2. a well hung Federal Erection

3. Haguing Chinese over their Sea

3. Nice, not nice at all, and

4. Terrible Turks couping

Who's responsible?

God!!

Turning to Australia's own PM, Malcolm Turnbull, the company he keeps no longer convinces any that he is a centrist man of the people.

A measure of Malcolm's independence from big money interests is his rehabilitation of colourful ICAC identity Arthur Sinodinos. Like Sinodinos Turnbull is a very wealthy ex-merchant banker.

According to Wikipedia Arthur's past indiscretions identified at ICAC, have not been excluded him from his rehabilitation as Cabinet Secretary under Turnbull. Such indiscretions would bar merely ordinary, relatively poor, Australian citizen from senior public office.

Wikipedia advises https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Sinodinos :

"Sinodinos was the Assistant Treasurer in the Abbott Ministry.[4]"

On 19 March 2014, Sinodinos stood aside from his role as Assistant Treasurer prior to giving evidence as a witness before [the New South Wales Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC)].

During the enquiry Sinodinos advised he was unaware of a $74,000 donation made to the Liberal Party by Australian Water Holdings, despite being Deputy Chairman on a $200,000 salary. At the time of the payment Sinodinos was also Treasurer of the Liberal Party.[19]

He formally resigned on 19 December 2014 as Assistant Treasurer and was succeeded as Assistant Treasurer by Josh Frydenberg."

"He re-entered Cabinet as its Secretary on 21 September 2015 when he was appointed by Malcolm Turnbull."

Onya Malcolm. Its the company the rich keep who keep them rich.

Plantagenet saying it is "their sea" just marks you as an irrelevat supporter for a major 20thC genocidal maniac in Mao.

Before getting carried away by Ms May's demagoguery, read this:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article45128.htm

Talking of genocidal maniacs, how about this list, remembering that the number of civilian deaths and other maiming accompanying the activities surely out does Mao?
Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War. (* indicates successful ouster of a government)
• China 1949 to early 1960s
• Albania 1949-53
• East Germany 1950s
• Iran 1953 *
• Guatemala 1954 *
• Costa Rica mid-1950s
• Syria 1956-7
• Egypt 1957
• Indonesia 1957-8
• British Guiana 1953-64 *
• Iraq 1963 *
• North Vietnam 1945-73
• Cambodia 1955-70 *
• Laos 1958 *, 1959 *, 1960 *
• Ecuador 1960-63 *
• Congo 1960 *
• France 1965
• Brazil 1962-64 *
• Dominican Republic 1963 *
• Cuba 1959 to present
• Bolivia 1964 *
• Indonesia 1965 *
• Ghana 1966 *
• Chile 1964-73 *
• Greece 1967 *
• Costa Rica 1970-71
• Bolivia 1971 *
• Australia 1973-75 *
• Angola 1975, 1980s
• Zaire 1975
• Portugal 1974-76 *
• Jamaica 1976-80 *
• Seychelles 1979-81
• Chad 1981-82 *
• Grenada 1983 *
• South Yemen 1982-84
• Suriname 1982-84
• Fiji 1987 *
• Libya 1980s
• Nicaragua 1981-90 *
• Panama 1989 *
• Bulgaria 1990 *
• Albania 1991 *
• Iraq 1991
• Afghanistan 1980s *
• Somalia 1993
• Yugoslavia 1999-2000 *
• Ecuador 2000 *
• Afghanistan 2001 *
• Venezuela 2002 *
• Iraq 2003 *
• Haiti 2004 *

Unfortunately, conservatives do not change their spots.

In her answer to Caroline Lucas, leader of the Greens, who asked the infinitely sensible question that, if nuclear weapons were a real deterrent why not let other nations have them, her response was: 'Sadly [Lucas], and some members of the Labour party, seem to be the first to defend the country’s enemies’.

There we have it,folks. You're either with us or with the terrorists (or whomever else we declare our enemies). It's all about us and them. No nuance. No negotiation. Way to go, Theresa.

This will almost certainly extend to any other enemies of Britain's ruling class - the poor, the unemployed, the working poor, the NHS and anyone with pesky leftist, socialist thinking who believe in renationalising Britain's 30 years of privatisation and deregulation.

May is being groomed as the new Iron Lady of British politics. She even looks and talks like you know who.

Now, where can we find another Falklands War to shore up her popularity? Tahiti looks nice.