Theresa May has said she is “woke and proud” as she called for a “sensitive approach” to issues surrounding gender. The Telegraph has more.
The former Prime Minister compared being asked whether she was a woke woman to having been asked in the past whether she was a feminist, adding: “Well, I wore a T-shirt which said ‘this is what a feminist looks like’.”
Mrs May’s remarks came in an interview with Ruth Davidson, the former leader of the Scottish Conservatives, for Times Radio ahead of the publication of her first book since leaving Downing Street.
Ms. Davidson asked the ex-Prime Minister about a line from the book, entitled The Abuse of Power, in which she discusses the term ‘woke’.
“When you were writing about wokeness, you said: ‘The Oxford English Dictionary definition of woke is well-informed, up to date and chiefly alert to racial discrimination and injustice. And on that basis, who would not want to be woke?’”
Ms. Davidson added: “It invites the question, Theresa, are you possibly a woke woman?”
Mrs May responded: “In the terms of that definition of somebody who recognises that discrimination takes place. Sadly, that term has come to be used… as part of this absolutism and polarisation of politics.”
When pressed on whether she was “woke and proud”, she said, laughing, “I am, yeah!”
That’s a former Conservative Prime Minister, folks.
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Supposed Anglican. Woke and a Joke.
Terrible PM, anit-Brexiter, the only credit one can give her, is when she gave a speech defending some form of liberty and rights taken away by the Rona fascism – which she did vote for and defend of course. Other than that. Useless.
She was always being filmed leaving churches in which no services were taking place.
And she signed us up to the Global Migration Pact.
And she later made lots of money from giving talks that were free to attend…..
But I’ll give her credit for not having any children.
Nature wouldn’t allow such an abomination
Worse than useless. She ‘upgraded’ Brown/Miliband’s Net 20% to Net zero.
‘The Oxford English Dictionary definition of woke is well-informed, up to date and chiefly alert to racial discrimination and injustice’.
My definition of woke is the systematic eradication of Judeo-Christian culture and heritage from society.
It’s a spiritual war and no political definition can describe it.
“Judeo-Christian” is a propaganda term invented by our enemies.
Western civilisation is Christo-Pagan.
Christianity ‘came’ to us because the church had become immensely powerful and wealthy after its teachings had become the state religion of the Roman empire. Early Christian missionaries would usually make deals with corrupt members of the Germanic gentry who’d agree to spread the religion by force in the territories they could control in exchange for bribes and being elevated from an elected war-leader of the people to a king by the grace of God. Much of what we consider European culture really only became possible after the church had lost a lot of the political influence it used to wear during the millenium (roughly) its reign of terror had lasted.
Story I feel like telling here (recounted from memory from Bede’s History Of The English Church And People): When Christian missionaries came to Frisia for the first time, they visited various members of the gentry to sound them out to find some who might be receptive to being bribed with gold and promises. But the commoners who noticed this trusted neither the foreigners nor all the nobles of tribe. They gathered in secret and agreed that they wanted to keep their ancient customs and gods and didn’t want to be sold to the Roman church by treacherous chieftains. Hence, they waylaid the monks, hacked them to pieces with their swords and threw the remains into the river Rhine.
If you think Christianity, ie Christ, can be judged by the acts of those who appropriate the church for their own material interests, you have a pretty shallow understanding of the religion.
You aren’t alone of course but you would do well to actually appreciate the bible for what it says rather than for what those who pretend to act in its name do.
Well said, AYM. Someone I know, at the age of 94, continues to reject Christ with the excuse that he was abused as a child by Christians. No they weren’t Christians – they were ‘Christians’!!! Why do people focus on the sins of those dressed up as someone else to reject those who they are pretending to be? Of course, we must never trust Grandmas or listen to anyone who says they’re a Grandma, as look what that Grandma tried to do to Little Red Riding Hood!
The idea that you have to accept Christians at face value in order to work out which of them are really paedophiles on your own doesn’t really fly as the only safe course of action is Assume all of them are and stay clear of the lot.
If you think you know what I think because it must be what you think, then, you’re thinking wrongly.
Interesting and revealing that my comment gets so many downvotes!
Haha, not for long. I’m here to steal your thunder, matey boy! LOL ”I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.” Gotta quote Dawkins here, who I don’t always agree with but I do in this case. I wonder if Theresa May thinks a woman can have a penis…misogyny appears to be a unisex word nowadays. The trans nutters and radical Islam, that’s your two sources of misogyny right there. A reminder;
”The hijab’s purpose is letting Muslim men know which women they can molest & which women they cannot, according to Quran 33:59. It’s not just any other piece of cloth, it perpetrates rape culture. No true feminist or progressive should defend the misogynistic concept of hijab.”
https://twitter.com/Emily8275/status/1702370622985347124
I don’t have firm opinions about the extent to which I think religions have been an overall positive or negative influence on civilisation, but I have never really bought the IMO false dichotomy between religious belief and “understanding things”. It has always seemed obvious to me that existence and consciousness are intrinsically mysterious and can never be “understood”, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t carry on trying to understand what we can.
I’m not religious- at least, I don’t think I am. Certainly wouldn’t want to live in many Islamic countries, maybe none. Turkey maybe though don’t know much about it, just that where I used to live in North London is full of Turks and I never had a problem with them- they seemed to work and mind their own business.
Yep it is supposed to mean being aware of social injustices, but morphed into imposing endless amounts of manufactured injustices on us and destroying the careers of those who don’t comply. ——-eg There must be something wrong with you for not wanting men in a womans loo so we will hound you out of your job and destroy your family. Wokery is intolerance in the name of tolerance.
Silly Tw-t !!…..,.
At least she’s not out and proud…
Mind bleach please!
Am I really supposed to care what this woman thinks?
Good point
And, apparently without irony, her book is entitled ‘The abuse of power’ – well, she should know. Her ten (?) years at Home Office saw complete ideological capture (“Border force” hahaha), she completely bought into the gender reassignment industry, she did her damnedest to scupper brexit, she fixed net zero into law and after three miserable years of turning everything she touched into crumbling dust and ashes, all she could do was blub in self-pity at getting the boot. Even now, she can’t leave us in peace – where’s the diesel vehicle compensation scheme we were promised in 2016?
May is mentally ill and needs sectioning.
All I know is there’s something horrible up her nostril. Zoom in at your peril.
Isn’t it the case that, like corrupt hostile foreign midget Sunak, nobody voted for her to be PM?
James Callaghan was selected to replace Harold Wilson on 5 April 1976. He didn’t trigger an election until he’d been in office 3yrs. His party lost and he was replaced by Margaret Thatcher.
John Major was selected to replace Margaret Thatcher on 28 Nov 1990. He triggered an election after 1yr 4mths. His party won and he continued as PM until the next GE on 2 May 1997 when he was replaced by Tony Blair.
Gordon Brown was selected to replace Tony Blair on 27 Jun 2007. He triggered an election after 2yrs 10mths. His party lost and he was replaced by David Cameron/Nick Clegg coalition.
Theresa May was selected to replace David Cameron on 13 Jul 2016. She triggered an election after 10mths. Her party barely won and she continued as PM until she was replaced by Boris Johnson.
Boris Johnson was selected to replace Theresa May on 24 Jul 2019. He was allowed by Parliament to call a GE 4 mths later. His party won and he continued as PM until he was replaced by Liz Truss. She was replaced by Rishi Sunak.
It would appear that calling an election soon after being selected to replace an ‘elected’ PM is more likely to result in a win.
Lord North, Theresa May, Rishi Sunak. Out of their depth failures.
I’d be less bothered about the national origins and whether they were elected if the Conservatives were actually conservative.
How can it possibly be in our interests to be governed by foreigners, whatever philosophy they pretend to follow?
Well, I certainly think importing hundreds of thousands of people with different backgrounds, habits, cultures and behaviours is a terrible idea. But with individual political leaders I would take someone with similar views to me on how a country should be “run”, regardless of origin, and the proper role of government over a native born globalist.
Name a non-foreign political leader who you admire. I suspect you might have to go back a while.
I don’t admire them, I just think being indigenous tends to put brakes – whether consciously in place or not – on the speed of destruction they’re prepared to go along with. Satan’s Little Helper cottager Blair is, I admit, an exception
Our recent Conservative governments have had an astonishing number of foreigners – and I’d include Johnson, who doesn’t look remotely British – in ministerial positions
I think this is pretty spot on with what’s going on all over the Western world now, except it can equally be applied to Muslims;
https://twitter.com/TimewasterAnd/status/1702767547022795232
Maybe a bit. Major, Brown, Cameron, May. I can’t see much clear blue water between them and the foreigners. Equally disappointed in how native Brits reacted to “covid”.
The electorate votes for MPs and for nothing else.
If we had to make a league table of PMs who have done most to destroy our country, I’d put her third after Blair and Johnson.
Top of the list is the moron that green-lit the windrush.
The Windrush was utterly trivial in terms of contribution to population replacement.
Immigration quintupled after 97.
Fair point though you could argue it set a precedent.
It didn’t happen because it was government policy, though.
Ted Heath sacking Enoch Powell may have been a key moment too.
Don’t forget Mr D. Cameron. He came up with the idea that British Companies must employ non-British people first. He also cancelled the Nimrod programme, thus ending a wholly Indigenous aircraft industry that was older than the US’.
The Oxford English Dictionary definition of woke sounds like a Soviet slogan. The correct definition is: woke is someone that thinks they are well-informed, up to date and who believes they are alert to racial discrimination and injustice. [see INSUFFERABLE, SELF RIGHTEOUS].
I checked my dictionary and fortunately it’s a real one. For Woke it has ‘See Wake’.
Each side uses a different definition of woke, so there’s no conversation taking place.
We who are anti-woke are smeared using their definition, making it easy for them to dodge what we mean by that term. We’re painted as the knuckle-draggers. To May, this means we’re anti-kindness, we hold antiquated-views, and are tolerant of racial prejudice.
We’ll get nowhere like this.
Perhaps we can coin a new term (I’ve no idea what) and use that exclusively, accuse them using our definition, let them deny it, then take them apart.
There’s true kindness and fake kindness, tyranny dressed up as kindness. And pretty much everyone from every race is “racially prejudiced”. The difference between the “woke” and us is that we don’t advocate making their views illegal. That’s the difference between covidians and us. I didn’t want to stop them doing anything they believed would help them, but they were happy to screw my life up.
Yeah, but what should we call this thing?
They claim ‘woke’ as their own, suggesting we’ve distorted the meaning of ‘their’ word.
We need something suitable for broadcast and print that they won’t like hearing said about themselves.
Virtue signallers
She’s a liar and a complete arsehole. And pride is a sin, so clearly not as much of a Christian as she claims either.
And look at her resignation honours list for a measure of her character and integrity: Lidington, Barwell, Robbins, Brownlow, Dick of the yard, Timothy, Hill – these are the people whom she thinks deserve national recognition.
Terrible teeth : wrecked by a combination of tobacco smoke and Satan’s semen.
Well she certainly sucked as Prime Minister!
Are you sure it is worth reading in full? I have my doubts.
If you’re a masochist, it might be worth it!
My definition of woke is self-righteous prejudice.
My definition is ‘destructive scumbags and sex perverts.’
“How do you do, fellow kids?”
My opinion, for what it’s worth, is that she is a horrible woman, (perhaps ‘nasty’ as she herself suggested, vaguely,) with no intuition or empathy, or any feeling or respect for nature & natural organic processes.
Hence her ideas on energy, the environment, women , procreation, & natural ground-up evolution & solution….are worse than useless & it is a dreadful shame she was ever in a position of power.
Her dress sense is embarrassingly non-existent, to boot.
You know you are in trouble when a supposed Conservative used to rant on about “Social Justice” when she was Prime Minister, and is now pandering to wokery instead of fighting this insidious CRAP
T May is a Globalist puppet. As for calling her a Conservative that’s a joke.
The terrifying thing is how obvious it was that May would be a hopeless PM…..and still they picked her…..
Just confirms her as the worst British PM ever, with the possible exception of T. B´liar.
I fairness, there haven’t been any competent PMs since Baroness Thatcher left office. I have issues with some of the things she did, but she was a genuine statesman. I felt a sense of pride when I saw her standing alongside other world leaders. Every British leader since has made feel embarrassed. When you look at the post-war leaders up to and including Baroness Thatcher, only Heath was an out-and-out embarrassment.
Part of the reason the West is becoming a totalitarian sewer is because our leaders are incompetents. It’s easier to run a police state and tell people how to think and behave than to run than a free country.
I’m sorry ex PMs like her and Tony Blair who whilst totally ruining our country and making a profit from it, should jog off the nearest cliff, your comments are interested inflammatory and pointless we’ve no need of you now like we did when you were PM!!