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c0lo [soylentnews.org] writes:

Australian Broadcast Corporation runs [abc.net.au] a story on the latest Theresa May's misfortunes:

Embattled British Prime Minister Theresa May has promised to restore the "British Dream", in a nightmare speech that saw her plagued by a cough and interrupted by a prankster, while parts of the backdrop fell down as she was speaking.

In a mishap-prone Conservative Party conference address, Ms May vowed economic help for struggling families for whom, "the British Dream that has inspired generations of Britons feels increasingly out of reach".
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It was a shambolic end to a troubled convention. The Conservatives are in a sour mood after June's snap election — called three years early in hopes of bolstering the party's majority in Parliament — saw Ms May's Government reduced to a minority administration.
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Ms May needed a strong speech to help fight off rivals to her job, including ambitious Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson.

But things did not go to plan. Ms May struggled with a cough and a hoarse voice that forced her to pause repeatedly.

Midway through the speech, a prankster walked up and handed Ms May a P45 — the form given to people being laid off in Britain. As he was bundled away by security, the joker — identified in media reports as comedian Simon Brodkin — said "Boris told me to do it".

As Ms May neared the end of her televised speech, two letters fell off the slogan on the wall behind her that read: "Building a country that works for everyone."

More of those letters kept falling after, the result (in a photo at the end of TFA) being the one in TFT.
Is anyone here qualified as an Augur?

The unscripted mayhem overshadowed a substantial speech in which Ms May appealed to middle- and lower-income voters. She promised to put a price cap on energy bills and get government back into the business of building public housing, a role it has largely abandoned since the 1980s, "to help fix our broken housing market".

Undersupply and rising prices have made home ownership an elusive goal for many Britons.

Ms May took responsibility for the Conservative election failure, saying "I led the campaign, and I am sorry".

Then she tried to move on, telling ministers to "shape up" and focus on "the daily lives of ordinary working people".

And she called for a more humane politics, saying, "people are fed up with the game-playing, the name-calling".
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The speech was also overshadowed by furore over Mr Johnson's comment during a meeting at the conference that the Libyan city of Sirte could become a tourism hub once they, "clear the dead bodies away". [abc.net.au]

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