There are more important things to criticise Theresa May over than her cringeworthy dance moves

Theresa May's dance moves are not great. She was filmed dancing at a school in South Africa and people are taking the piss.

Sure, she's a public figure and ridicule should be expected in a country where people have the free speech to criticise their political leaders, but surely there are more important things to criticise her about?

Here are a few suggestions:

• Theresa May knows that the tyrannical rulers of Saudi Arabia are using British weapons to commit war crimes in Yemen, yet she continues signing £billions worth of arms export licences to the homophobic, misogynistic, democracy-crushing, terrorism-spreading, head-chopping child-killers.

• When she was Home Secretary Theresa May personally implemented an outrageous and racist policy of "deport now, hear appeals later" against British citizens. This policy also involved systematically denying jobs, accommodation, social security, and health care to huge numbers of (mainly elderly) British people without the documentation to prove their British citizenship.

• Violent crime is soaring all across the UK thanks to Theresa May's policy of slashing police funding and scrapping 21,000 police jobs. At the time she was doing this she was warned by the experts that over-stretched and under-funded police forces would lead to more violent crime, but she actually dismissed these concerns as "scare-mongering" and "crying wolf" and ploughed on with her ideologically driven cuts agenda regardless.

• Another one of Theresa May's crackpot schemes as Home Secretary involved introducing ridiculously botched legislation to deal with so-called "legal highs". May just copied the legislation off Ireland in spite of the fact that the Irish policy of pushing the novel psychoactive substances market into the hands of criminals led to the biggest increase in consumption of these substances anywhere in Europe!

• Yet another of Theresa May's horrific policies at the Home Office involved setting an arbitrary and discriminatory income requirement for British spouses bringing their non-EU partners into the UK. She didn't care that people coming to the UK because they have a spouse here are by far the most likely to integrate, learn the language, find good jobs, and contribute to society Neither did she care that plucking an arbitrary figure out of the air heavily discriminates against women and people who live in poorer regions of the UK.

• Theresa May has continued to push hard-right Tory austerity dogma in order to make the poor and ordinary pay the entire cost of the bankers' crisis, while corporations and the mega-rich actually get showered with handouts and tax cuts! 86% of the burden of this ruinous Tory policy has been loaded onto the shoulders of women.

• Theresa May is one of the few Tory politicians to have remained in government for the entire eight year period since 2010. In that time British workers have suffered from the longest sustained collapse in the value of their wages on record, and the Tory government has overseen the lowest levels of house building since the 1920s.

• During Theresa May's time in government the Tories have introduced a massive tax cut for fracking companies, then repeatedly over-ruled local communities who don't want this environmentally damaging and highly inefficient form of energy extraction in their local area.

• When Theresa May became Prime Minister she cried crocodile tears about social mobility, but then with virtually her first act as Prime Minister she scrapped the maintenance grants that help youngsters from poor backgrounds to get a university education.

• Theresa May openly bragged to parliament about her willingness to incinerate 100,000 innocent men, women, and children using nuclear weapons, then allowed her defence secretary Michael Fallon to rewrite Britain's nuclear policy on the spot by declaring that under Theresa May's leadership Britain could use nuclear bombs as attack weapons (amazingly Jeremy Corbyn was attacked and derided by the mainstream media and the wall of gammon for sticking with the more sensible "no first strike" policy).

• In November 2017 the Daily Mail produced an outrageous Nazi-style front page headline attacking three high court judges as "Enemies of the People" because they ruled that parliament is legally sovereign when it comes to passing laws, not the Prime Minister. Theresa May and the Tories refused to criticise this overt attack on the independence of the judiciary, and a few months later May actually hired the author of this disgusting piece (James Slack) as her press secretary!

• In 2016 Theresa May signed off on an extraordinary rip-off deal to bribe China and France into building a nuclear reactor for the UK with a promise to pay them double the market price for electricity for 35 years (the reason Britain can't build its own power plant is that the Tories privatised our nuclear expertise in 1996 into the hands of private profiteers who eventually flogged it all off to the French government).

• Since becoming Prime Minister in 2016 Theresa May has continued to oversee the systematic abuse of disabled people via dehumanising and discriminatory assessment regimes that cost way more to administer than they will ever save in reduced disability benefits claims.

• Theresa May continually refuses to condemn Israeli brutality against the Palestinians, even when it comes to using snipers to kill non-violent protesters, journalists, medics, and children. She refuses to condemn the hard-right Israeli government for introducing a new Apartheid "nation state" law. She also continues selling arms export licences to Israel as they carry out these outrageous attacks and implement overtly racist government policies.

• During the 2017 General Election Theresa May oversaw the publication of a shambolic manifesto with no costings whatever, then set about tearing pages out of it within days because of the public backlash against her "Dementia Tax" policy of asset stripping frail elderly people who end up needing social care services, then had a massive "nothing has changed" public breakdown under the stress.

• Theresa May has demonstrated time and again that she's a hopelessly weak leader without the authority to sack her ministers, even for the most blatant abuses of their office. When Priti Patel was caught working as an operative of a foreign state embedded within the UK government, she was allowed to resign and keep her job as a Tory MP. When Boris Johnson made one idiotic remark after another and even broke collective responsibility by publishing his own personal Brexit manifesto - he wasn't sacked. This hopelessly weak leadership means the liar Esther McVey and the serially incompetent Chris Grayling still sit in her cabinet!

• Theresa May has repeatedly fantasised about scrapping British people's human rights by withdrawing from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). It's no coincidence that multiple Tory policies from their imposition of financial barriers to the justice system, through their forced labour schemes, to their savage mistreatment of disabled people, are all incompatible with the ECHR.

• And then there's Brexit. If anyone thinks she's doing a good job of managing the Brexit process you must be either delusional, or one of the mega-rich speculators banking on getting rich by betting against Britain as she deliberately drives the British economy over a cliff.

Basically, in light of all of this, if you're taking the piss out of Theresa May's lame dance moves, you're actually giving her an easy ride, because ridiculing her cringeworthy dancing is basically the equivalent of Rupert Murdoch's bacon sandwich attack on Ed Miliband.

By focusing attention on some trivial issue like her crappy dance moves, people are actually distracting attention away from her malice, her incompetence, and all the vile policies she's promoted, and even laying the foundations for right-wingers to paint this absolute monster as the poor innocent victim of cruel attacks from "nasty lefties"!

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