Thursday 15 November 2018

Theresa May gets stabbed in the back!

I have absolutely no doubt that Theresa May's Brexit deal was delivered in good faith and with this country's national interest at heart. But now all is chaos. Two Cabinet ministers have resigned, several junior ministers have resigned, and Jacob Rees-Mogg, the tall, all-knowing Eton-educated intellectual smarty pants who believes he is leading the charge for any deal that isn't one produced by Theresa May - and for those who don't know, this politician is in the same party as Theresa's government, so how about that for loyalty? - has called for a vote of no confidence in the prime minister.If he gets sufficient votes to back him from within the Conservative Party which I suspect he will, there will have to be a debate in the House of Commons on Theresa May's future leadership. If she loses, she is finished. Then there will be an awful leadership challenge, a new prime minister will emerge, probably followed by a general election and probably Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader who wore an anorak at the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War commemoration in Whitehall on Sunday, will become prime minister. Remember the name Jacob Rees-Mogg, the man who does not believe in loyalty to his leader and imagines that he could get a better deal out of the EU than the one fought for over 19 months by May and her officials. Incidentally the first resignation today was the Brexit Secretary himself, Dominic Raab, who was party to the deal. Again, so much for loyalty. Good riddance I say. Let May have people around her she can trust to be loyal. But maybe it is all too late. The Brexit deal will probably not pass through parliament especially if more ministers resign. But then what? Does Jacob Rees-Mogg or a future Conservative leader or the Labour Party really think there's a better deal out there somewhere? Do they really think the EU will put up with starting the negotiations all over again? We're supposed to be leaving the EU in just over four months. This great country is now facing a perilous future. At this point no one is in charge. Theresa May will battle on and if, miraculously, she survives, she is likely to be forced into an election anyway. Jeremy Corbyn is waiting in his anorak.

1 comment:

  1. My thoughts precisely, May is a thoroughly decent person unlike most of the rest of them. What next?
    OMG, I am glad I wasn't the only one fuming over the anorak at the cenotaph. How utterly disrespectful.

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