Politics

People Are Roasting British PM Theresa May After She Ruined A Mexican Wave

This feels like a metaphor.

by Tom Clift  15 June 2017

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It has not been a great week for UK Prime Minister Theresa May. The general election was a disaster for the Conservatives, with May and the rest of her party doing everything they could to tip their comfortable majority down the drain. After the dust settled over the weekend, no one party has enough seats to form a government. Oops.

Many pundits have placed the blame for the Tories’ poor return squarely at the feet of the PM. In the most memeable moment of the campaign (and there were plenty), May told a TV interviewer that the naughtiest thing she’d ever was go running through a field of wheat as a child. So yeah, not exactly the most relatable candidate on the ballot.

But if you thought that was bad, well then let’s just say you’ve never seen May attempting a Mexican wave at a soccer match.

This happened in Paris, at a friendly between England and France. May was in attendance with French president Emmanuel Macron, who is coming across as more and more qualified for his job by the day.

The footage has been widely mocked, which yeah, fair enough.

Say what you will about his platform, but I bet Lord Buckethead knows how to do a Mexican wave.