Theresa May’s Wheat Field Has Morphed into a Snake Pit

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Despite the vast majority of Tory MPs deciding that the public should not have a confirmatory vote on the Brexit deal (the masses are somehow only entitled to take a view on the global status of our countries once in a generation), they are chafing at the bit to elect a new leader.

Theresa May ‘won’ the questionable honour of leading the Tory Party a couple of weeks after the referendum on the UK’s EU membership, the position becoming vacant when David Cameron fled the mess he caused.

Less than a year later, Mrs May attempted to exploit being ahead in the polls by holding a snap general election. It was not a great success (consider this British understatement), yet she clung to power — even after a subsequent leadership challenge that can only be described as botched.

Now May, amid outrage in the hard right of her party that she hasn’t secured Brexit (to a large extent because they didn’t vote a deal through parliament), has had to give a vague assurance (not words that should go together) that she will leave office after one more try at getting her Brexit deal through. In reality, the hard right doesn’t want her deal to pass, they want some mythical ideologically pure Brexit unicorn, as though pushing the UK over a cliff is a pure thing to do, and in no way dangerous, callous or predatory.