2019 was a bad year for EU Remainers, Theresa May and Prince Andrew

In the last 12 months nothing has gone right for a lot of high-profile people. It has been a year to look back on with relief that it's over. A bad year. A year of disillusion. Let us hope that next year, the start of a new decade, will be a point in history which everyone will remember as a period of rennaissance, of fresh hope and wise political decisions. It was a terrible year for Theresa May. She was ridiculed, belittled, unloved, insulted and effectively thrown out of office. Or, as she put it, she stepped down from the job she had loved. Really? Could she have enjoyed being prime minister at any point in her three-year reign? She basically drafted a perfectly good Brexit plan but it was rejected by Parliament three times as if it was a document covered in dog faeces when actually it would have probably served this country better than the Boris Johnson version which is a harsher Brexit, in terms of extracting the UK from EU tentacles, more complex and more difficult to implement. But for ever Theresa May's leadership will be associated with dither and failure even though the dithering and failing were largely due to parliament and the extreme factions within the Conservative party and the hopeless leadership or lack of leadership in the Labour party. By the way, good riddance to Jeremy Corbyn and his Leninist team around him. No sympathy for them but definitely some empathy for Theresa who never really stood a chance and had to face up to patronising EU leaders, especially that cringing Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission until his no doubt excessively lucrative retirement a few months ago. So farewell Theresa, you did your best but it just wasn't enough. Your worst year is nearly over. EU Remainers all lost out. Brexit WILL go ahead. I have accepted it with a great deal of sadness but the hardest Remainers in Parliament who undercut everything Theresa tried to do and never accepted the 2016 referendum decision were roundly defeated when Boris took over. I am assuming Boris will NOT retain the services of the awful Jacob Rees-Mogg when he reshuffles his Cabinet in February. Rees-Mogg was definitely a loser in 2019. For one person of averagely medium profile 2019 was the worst year of his life. Prince Andrew was never a Royal Family superstar but his long friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, the loathsome teenage girl philanderer, and his questionable involvement in Epstein's shady world, plus that gruesomely throwaway I've-done-nothing-wrong TV interview with Emily Maitlis transformed the minor royal into a headline-making superbaddie. It's a year which he will want to forget but will never be allowed to forget.