Wednesday 31 January 2018

Theresa under constant attack

I don't know Theresa May personally, but I really do wish she could summon up the courage to order her ministers to shut up, get on with their job and stop plotting behind her back. What's wrong with these people, ministers and backbench MPs? They are all in the same political party but they seem to spend most of their time trying to make the Conservatives look like a bunch of backbiting, sniping, ungrateful, schoolboyish, pathetic idiots who would prefer to see Theresa May ousted at all costs whether it brings Jeremy Corbyn into Number 10 or not. How stupid is that? I have actually heard of Tories talking about the Corbyn nuclear option: let Labour win and after a year or two of a disastrous Corbyn government, there would be an election and the Conservatives would win an overwhelming majority under a New Leader. People who think like this should get out of Westminster more often and experience the real world. If Corbyn were ever to win, he might just survive and then how foolish would the Tory plotters look? As for a New Tory Leader, there isn't a single person currently in government who would make a better prime minister. That's not to say that Theresa is perfect, she is not. But none of her potential rivals would be any better, and most of them would be worse. So, you revolting (as in rebelling) Tory MPs, get with it and start backing Theresa to the hilt and boost her confidence a little. As of now, wherever she is, whether in Westminister or in Beijing, as she is currently, she has to fend off questions about her suitability to remain as prime minister. Leave her alone, she seems determined to stay as long as she can, and after all she has been through she should be allowed to pursue her intention of getting the best Brexit deal possible without having disloyal Tories whispering murder and mayhem behind her back to the parliamentary lobby journalists who sweep up every spittal and rumour and splash it all over the front pages. No disloyalty on my part towards my estimable colleagues. That's their job. But it wouldn't be so easy for them if there weren't so many Tory MPs around ready to spread the dirt. Apart from anything else I am tired of reading splash after splash about how Theresa May could be forced to step down in May or October, or before Brexit or after Brexit or.....Then what? Prime Minister Boris or Prime Minister Gove or Prime Minister Gavin Williamson or Prime Minister Jacob Rees-Mogg or Prime Minister David Davis? Or, of course, Prime Minister Jeremy Corbyn? Stick with it, Theresa, just be a bit tougher and tell all these would-be prime ministers to toe the line and keep their mouths shut. That would also send a message to the EU negotiators that Theresa IS in charge after all and force them to do a proper deal beneficial for all of us on either side of the English Channel.

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