Theresa May’s lie on a Battlebus
During the 2016 referendum a lot of trouble was caused when the Leave campaign (nowadays often referred to as the Brexit campaign) had a message on a bus saying they’d give £350 million each week to the NHS. That was a lie. So you’d imagine any politician would learn — ‘Do not write a lie in large letters on a bus’.
But obviously Theresa May didn’t learn that lesson.
For most of her adult life, and as an MP, Theresa May’s signature looked like this:
This can be found on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theresa_May
A handwriting analyst suggested:
Her signature, like her writing, seems to have been done at high speed, reflecting a highly active, restless mind. Her signature is similar to her writing, but with a little more zip to her public image. The large, curve of the capital ‘T’ in her signature is like a roof protecting her from the slings and arrows of public life. Her handwriting has further signs of distrust of the outside world. Slightly ‘discordant’ forms often point to an uncertain self-esteem in the past”
Source: http://www.penheaven.co.uk/blog/signatures-exposed-may-trump-johnson-merkel/#sthash.lvTop5F7.dpuf
An alternative graphologist opinion is dated 12/5/2017 in the Express newspaper:
Note: Inscutable - not readily investigated, interpreted, or understood.
Then we saw a new signature for the article 50 Brexit letter to Donald Tusk: Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/prime-ministers-letter-to-donald-tusk-triggering-article-50, the letter starts:
Curiously when she wrote a T for Tusk it was printed like a child — not like the flourishing T of her own signature.
Theresa May’s signature as you can see in the article 50 Brexit letter had started to evolve:
She had started to drop the ‘a’ in May and the ‘y’ is now descending deeply downwards and the ‘eresa’ in Theresa is starting to join up — more like adult writing.
Forensic science says there are general categories by which handwriting can be analyzed and compared to detect a forgery. Three of these are:
- Form: The shapes, curves, and angles of the letters themselves.
A forensic scientist would look at individual letters and overlay them on top of each other. So I have overlaid her new signature (blue) with her old (black). The Letter T joining to the h is largely the same.
But the letter M is very different. Previously the peaks were the same and widely spaced — now the peaks are narrow and the second peak is higher.
- Line Quality: How hard and steadily the pen is pressed on the paper.
Theresa has radically changed the ‘eresa’ part of her signature from the broken up and down illegible tents with wide gaps to a hard line and a dot. This would change the pressure points on the paper as the pen is not lifted until the dot.
- Arrangement: The spacing and formatting of the words within the paragraph.
You could argue the gap between the Theresa and May is about the same. But she has dropped the ‘a’ in May and the y now ends in a flourish. I could easily imagine a forensic scientist would struggle to say these two signatures were by the same person and might say one was fake.
Her bank would have to ask her to provide new samples of her signature for verification purposes and let’s not mention her passport signature being wrong. Perhaps with a new blue passport post-Brexit she’ll get it right.
But now we get to the 2017 General Election:
Theresa May’s presidential style election campaign is all about her. She doesn’t mention the Tory party. She has her new signature stamped ‘two feet high’ on a large Tory battlebus.
But you have to ask yourself these three questions:
Why has Theresa May’s decided to change her signature after perhaps 40 years?
Why did she think she needed to change her signature for the article 50 Brexit letter to Donald Tusk?
Why did she think she needed to change it yet again for the Tory battlebus?
The only answer can be for the sake of appearances. She wanted to appear as a strong and stable leader — not someone with a restless mind, uncertain self-esteem who is distrustful of the outside world — needing to be protected from its slings and arrows.
But the truth cannot be hidden for long.
Here we see a political leader running an election campaign — hiding away on an airfield — distrustful of the general public — needing to be protected from the slings and arrows of public life — like someone with poor self-esteem perhaps?
As Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood said on the VictoriaLive TV programme on the 15/5/2017 about Mrs May “I don’t get the sense that we know the person at all”.
An article in the Guardian 2014 quoted a government source:
She may have got the idea for her new signature from the Tory tree:
In the news 22/5/2017 Theresa May had to perform a U-turn over social care — foretold 27/4/2017 in the Telegraph.
