May’s speech offered little of substance

Sir, – Theresa May gave one of the worst, most cringe-worthy speeches ever.

Completely wooden, devoid of substance.

Theresa May is a robotic Tory careerist.

She lacks empathy and the dance to “humanize” her was thought up by failed mobile phone salesmen.

Only the media thought May’s speech was anything other than horrendous.

Austerity is not over and it has caused misery for the vast majority.

The speech was an exercise in political degradation.

It had nothing to do with the social and political issues confronting tens of millions of working people.

Collapsing wages worse than Greece, return of Victorian-era diseases, massive legal tax-evasion, legalised fraud, children in poverty going to school hungry, disabled people being driven to suicide...

As far as I am concerned that is the reality of Tory misrule.

The problem for the Tories is there is nothing left to loot and no one left to lie to.

This is not a system that can be reformed.

The multi-millionaire financiers, rather than being fêted as economic titans, deserve to be frog-marched to prison.

The global financial aristocracy can plunder with impunity, knowing it will be protected by a political system that it dominates.

The day-to-day functioning of the capitalist financial system has assumed the form of a criminal conspiracy against the people.

Alan Hinnrichs. 2 Gillespie Terrace, Dundee.

Picture: Getty Images. It is only the media that did not think Theresa May’s speech was shambolic, suggests one correspondent.