I like to stay away from voting records. Look at her policy instead.

I understand that she's hardline and steely but I think her supposed competence is being blown over the roof. Take immigration, for instance.

International students pay extortionate fees (for five years of study in medicine, my course fees run over £100,000) and do not have recourse to public funds, which is to say that my studying is a net contribution to the economy (collectively around 8 billion). Her measures - which include the scrapping of the post study work visa, the immigration health surcharge (payable upon application for each year of study and work and even if you take out private health insurance) and scrapping of the ability to work part time - served to reduce the intake of students in the next year. She raised the minimum salary to be earned by non EEC migrants after working for five years to £35000 in order for them to stay any longer. In her efforts to prevent migrants taking low paid jobs, she is also cutting out skilled work including social workers, teachers and biomedical scientists.

In her haste to reduce migration to the tens of thousands, she moved to make the UK far less lucrative to people like me while other countries - such as Germany and Australia - are opening their doors. Her move to have international students return home to apply for their work visas (even after shortening the period to find work after graduation to four months) and still insist "the best and brightest" would still come flocking to the country was misguided and laughable. It did not pass but it is entirely possible for it to enter again.

Despite all this I remained fairly ambivalent of her competence. That is, until I saw the report of her deportation of around 48000 international students based on little but hearsay. She used two reports of fradulent testing from the firm conducting an English test (the firm the Home Office recommended for use) and without further investigation, deported thousands who had ever taken the particular test through the firm. It's a bit scary to think that a person who could instigate a move on such a scale with flimsy evidence is now in charge of a delicate situation. I do believe she was the best pick of the pack - not that that is saying much - but her decisions make little sense. It's a bit like cutting your nose to spite your face.