Her time was up! Quiet resignation on the streets of Maidenhead where Theresa May has served for two decades as voters say she lacked charisma to be PM
- Constituents in the Berkshire town reacted with an air of inevitability at May’s announcement
- Many in pubs and shops told MailOnline they felt her time was up over failure to deliver Brexit
- They paid tribute to her work as a dedicated MP who has served the town for 22 years with a majority of 26,000
- But some said that she lacked the personality and charisma required to have reached Number 10 in the first place
Today there was a mood of quiet resignation in Theresa May’s constituency of Maidenhead as the town where she has served for 22 years digested her decision to leave Number 10
Today there was a mood of quiet resignation in Theresa May’s constituency of Maidenhead as the town where she has served for 22 years digested her decision to leave number 10.
Many in the Berkshire town believe the time was right for their dedicated MP to finally call it quits over her failure to deliver Brexit.
Those closest to her there have long since held the view that she lacked the personality and charisma to have been made PM in the first place.
Naturally introverted with a small circle of friends, some held the view that she lacked the personal touch and small talk to navigate the tricky waters of leaving Europe.
Indeed the general mood in pubs and shops in the town was that Mrs May’s time was up and someone else deserved the chance to deliver our Britain’s withdrawal from the EU.
Her local party chairman Richard Kellaway, 73, said: ‘I think it’s fair to say she is relatively introverted, which is unusual as a politician. But quite a lot of actors are like that, they just perform on stage and she does do that.’
Meanwhile scrap-metal worker Danny Ayres, 27, told MailOnline: ‘I feel sorry for her. She did her best under the circumstances. She had an impossible job.
Retired carpenter Jim Bates, 70, pictured in The Bear pub, said: ‘She shouldn’t have resigned. All the other MPs should have supported her then she would have been able to get Brexit’
Scrap-metal worker Danny Ayres, 27, pictured with his mother Kim, 47, told MailOnline: ‘I feel sorry for her. She did her best under the circumstances. She had an impossible job’
Street cleaner Eddie Carr, 64, (pictured) accused May of wasting taxpayers’ money, saying: ‘She has wasted £1 billion, or something like that, by failing to get us out of the EU’
‘But it is now time for her to move on and give someone else a chance to achieve Breixt, like Boris Johnson.’
Danny’s mother Kim Ayres, 47, added: ‘To be honest I don’t like her.
‘She had a lot of chance to achieve Brexit and she failed. We should have been out of the EU by now but she didn’t achieve that.
‘We are at the stage where someone else must take over and get it done.’
Mother and daughter Alison and Laura Wakefield said she had given her all.
New mother Laura, 31, told MailOnline: ‘I feel sorry for her. She did her best but she could not get Brexit over the line.
‘We saw her at the Duck Day in Maidenhead a couple of weeks ago and she looked really worn out. She has given everything.’
Alison Wakefield, 53, added: ‘Mrs May was never really suited to the job of achieving Brexit.
‘She didn’t believe it in the first place and she became prime minister by accident.’
One voter who was angry with the PM was street cleaner Eddie Carr, who accused her of wasting taxpayers’ money.
Mother and daughter Alison and Laura Wakefield (pictured) said she had given her all. New mother Laura said: ‘I feel sorry for her. She did her best but she couldn’t get Brexit over the line’
Drinking in The Bear pub, construction worker Derek Bond, 64, told MailOnline: ‘She’s been shafted. She did everything she could to bring about Brexit but all the others wouldn’t let her’
Mr Carr, 64, said: ‘She failed and had to go. She has wasted £1 billion, or something like that, by failing to get us out of the EU. She has been useless and I’m glad she has finally gone.’
Meanwhile punters in The Bear pub accused her parliamentary colleagues of ‘shafting’ their MP and claimed no politician could have done more to try to achieve Brexit.
Construction worker Derek Bond, 64, told MailOnline: ‘She’s been shafted.
‘She did everything she could to bring about Brexit but all the others wouldn’t let her.
‘Regardless who was prime minister they would not have been able to get it through parliament.’
Retired carpenter Jim Bates, 70, added: ‘She shouldn’t have resigned. All the other MPs should have supported her then she would have been able to get Brexit.
‘Now it’s a complete mess. No one will be able to do any better than she did to achieve it.’
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