Having just stumbled across this via another forum I found it to be a moderately interesting read.

"My brawl over Brexit with Prime Minister, Theresa May"

http://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-...form=hootsuite

I now also know that Theresa May loves pointing the finger (quite literally).

For a start there was no brawl - this constituent didn't agree with Mrs May - and seemingly thinks her personal views should override the result on 23 June.

'I am a well off mother who lives in Maidenhead and what I want should happen and because Mrs May wants to follow the majority vote I am going to rush off to the papers to complain about the PM even though she generously took time out of her busy diary to meet me personally?'

Sorry - it doesn't work that way and her actions in running to the press says more about this woman than it does about Mrs May.

It's not even moderately interesting, merely someone who can't get over the fact that a majority voted to leave.

At 5ft2ins, 8 stone and riddled with arthritis, I can confirm tha Mrs. Allaorta is the most powerful woman in Britain and far more useful and adept than any politician.

We have seen it right from the start with the keen pro-EU campaign, they pitch it as being about the "greater good" but it's obvious they are just thinking of themselves.

Nothing wrong with being concerned about ones Bistro, but at least be honest about it.

If you take it that the Remanants are right and that less people will go on EU holidays, there's a good chance they'll do as they did this year and holiday in Bistroland on the South Coast.

When you go to see your MP you are there as an individual constituent, not a self-appointed representative presuming to know the minds of all of 'the 48%' who voted Remain for all sorts of reasons, not necessarily the ones that involved the writer taking a flipping pie chart to their MP to tell them how desperately unfair it was, and even show a copy of the ballot paper because the PM couldn't possibly have known what the referendum was about.

I do wonder how ficticious this account is, and whether Mrs May's version would corroborate much of this beyond the obvious annoyance that someone was wasting time that could have been spent dealing with a genuine constituency issue.

If you are a constituent of Mrs May's and you didn't get to speak to her, this is why. Someone wasting her time with a bunch of pie charts wanting to re-run the referendum by preaching at someone who had nominally at least been on the same flipping side.

While Ms Trethowan can't realistically expect the PM to change her mind and try to keep us in the EU, this was an interesting insight into what it's like to deal with the PM on a face-to-face basis. I'm glad she posted it.

I think contrived just about sums this story up.

Mrs May invited this woman to meet her and to talk about this specific issue, so she had no reason to be annoyed on that score. The decision to "waste her time", as you call it, was down to the PM herself.

It was an invitation to an individual constituent, not a representative of the Remain campaign, and yes it was to discuss the issues but it would have been on an individual constituent level, not involving powerpoint presentations and flipcharts (OK slight exaggeration there...).

It was still 15 minutes that could have been more usefully spent - I'm not really sure why anyone would do this if the intention was not to then report back to some group or other. It just seems to have been an entirely pointless exercise, hence my conclusion of time-wasting.


e2a: that New European 'publication' really does seem to hate an awful lot of people - take a look at the scrolling front page thingy down the right hand side of the article.

Silly woman. She says Maidenhead had voted "overwhemingly" to Remain. Actually she doesn't know this at all because the count was combined with the much more upmarket Windsor and adjoining expensive villages. The result for that total area was 46.1% leave to 53.9%. For all she knows Maidenhead the town voted the same way as the next door town, Slough, Leave.
And then she doesn't tell us how the "South coast town" where her bistro is voted. I think we can guess that one.
I expect May would rather talk to those affected by the housing crisis in Maidenhead, where only wealthy escaping Londoners can buy and escape to as they wait for Crossrail to arrive, than a semi-pro Remainer.

Why shouldn't politicians who are rich beyond our dreams, and can swan off to another country at a whim and spend the rest of their natural writing books or speaking at dinners, give one fig about a small business person trying to keep their head above water?

Brexit goves the Tories a chance to allow the country to be trashed and it can't be blamed on them, meanwhile they are safe in the knowledge that their nice little villa awaits them.

Fair point, I had forgotten that minor detail - this is unusual to see someone working in the underpaid social care sector also owning a small bistro on the south coast, as a completely irrelevant side point I am wondering whether the profitability of said bistro is not just dependent on people having a little bit of money to spend but also on the affordability of the staff, as it were.

Almost everyone who voted in the referendum was doing it for personal economic reasons.

It's just that a tiny minority think that their personal economic reason is more important than anyone else's.


If the business is dependent on the EU then you can see why someone would lose out. But that's unavoidable.

The woman runs a restaurant - if we leave the EU will people also stop eating?

To me this just comes across as the usual groupthink of associating Brexit with xenophobia, i.e. the feeling of xenophobia comes almost entirely from those that think people who voted leave are xenophobic rather from personal experience or reality.

And I bet if you were granted a personal meeting with the Prime Minister who is very busy you would not run off to the press complaining about her and referring to brawls.

This constituent just seems full of her own self importance and indeed rather lacking in class.