It’s gin o’clock for Theresa (Picture: Getty Images)

Most of us settle for a quick pint down the Crown (or wherever) with a few of our closest colleagues when we leave our jobs.

But more than 18,000 people are planning to go to ‘Theresa May’s leaving drinks’ later this month.

We wonder why everyone’s so keen?

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On June 30, tens of thousands of people will descend on The Red Lion pub near the Houses of Parliament to bid farewell to the PM.


‘It has been a difficult year for Theresa as PM,’ the Facebook event says. ‘Let’s all give her a happy send off.’

One attendee, Steve Harcourt, wrote on the event page: ‘The Red Lion landlord has asked that we are patient with the bar team, as if all 18,000 people turn up who have confirmed then it might be worth ordering double rounds when you get to the bar.’

And Saad Aljabar added: ‘Gonna be a messy one. Boris has put his card behind the bar.’



But others were asking after the menu.

‘Can you put me down for the wheat-fed fox option please?’ Rachel McGladdery asked.

Mark Stott, who set up the page, told Metro.co.uk that he was ‘absolutely delighted’ by the Tories’ terrible general election result.

‘I would also like to say that I think any “neutral” observer of what has happened this week must appreciate how poetic this has been,’ he said.

‘To see someone so arrogant who wanted to destroy their opposition be absolutely humiliated, and to lose on their own terms so badly, is just pure Schadenfreude!’

People protesting against Theresa May outside Downing St (Picture: WENN)

This has arguably been one of the most disastrous weeks in British politics for generations.

After taking a massive gamble with a general election based on the assumption everyone would vote for her ‘just because’, Theresa May ended up losing her party’s majority by winning just 318 seats (eight seats short of the 326 needed for a majority) on June 8.

In the days that followed, the PM desperately clung to power by attempting to cobble together a ‘confidence and supply’ agreement with the Democratic Unionist Party of Ulster – a party that, controversially, is against abortion and same-sex marriage, and believes in creationism.

Protest against Theresa May in London’s Whitehall post election result (Picture: Wenn)

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On Sunday evening Downing Street declared that the confidence and supply deal had been reached with the DUP.

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But then just a few short hours later, at around midnight, the DUP released its own statement saying no such deal had been made.

Downing Street quickly released a second statement, claiming that the one they initially put out was sent ‘in error’.

Amidst all this chaos, May’s two chiefs of staff were forced to resign, and senior ministers were apparently on the phone to Boris Johnson begging him to take over the helm.