There is precisely no chance at all - literally none

that any replacement for May could go back, get the EU to make substantive changes and come back to the UK with a "better" deal by the end of Q1 next year (or, frankly, ever). So those seeking to topple May from within that party are arguing for a no-deal Brexit. They should be clearer about that than they are being.

Surely no-one sane would want to take May's job right now. The argument about Brexit has always been whether or not there is a long-term gain at all, and if there is is it enough. The fact that there will be short-term pain, quite a bit of it, is not controversial and whoever is PM over the next eighteen months will carry a can of s**t for it.

I find it hard to stretch to sympathy for May but I do have a grudging regard for the way she soldiers on regardless. And certainly the right wing of her party are very unpleasant individuals; John Major (and you!) had it right.

Posted By: Old Man, Nov 16, 09:24:06