Don’t cry for cruel Theresa when it’s her victims who deserve our tears.
The cracking voice was as much, or perhaps more, for the collapse of her disastrous Premiership as the country she professes to love.
May’s record shows little affection for the millions whose lives she made worse.
So let’s weep not for May but for the growing number of people forced to rely on Foodbank charity to eat.
The struggling pushed below the breadline by Universal Credit and callous cuts.
The extra children abandoned in poverty, their lives blighted from birth.
The pupils in schools and colleges begging parents to buy toilet rolls and clean classrooms.
The sick who are hurting on longer NHS waiting lists or marooned in corridors on hospital trolleys.
The burgled or knifed denied justice after she sacked 20,000 police officers.
The over-75s fretting she’s pulling the plug on their free TV licences.
The nurses, teachers, firefighers, council workers and civil servants whose incomes she squeezed.
And all the workers whose wages are still on average down more than a tenner on a decade ago.
Brexit isn’t May’s only failure with the Tory who entered Downing Street vowing to extinguish burning injustices behaving like an arsonist in No 10.
Let’s cry not for May but the casualties of her incompetence and life-sapping Tory austerity.
