Originally Posted by
the_anticlough
But don't underestimate the great service May's done the tories in stretching it out and killing time, like a cheating world cup player rolling around the floor.
She actually signed off on a soft Brexit in December, then allowed Davis to contradict that on live tv just 2 days later! If she'd have acted then, triggering a leadership contest, a brexiteer pm would already be discredited by now. And there's no way the tories could have two leadership changes on a minority govt without a GE.
As it is, a brexiter might become leader right at the death of the article 50 period, get the red top tabloids singing his praises, be endorsed by Murdoch and Trump with the bbc too cowed to do anything but play along. But all of that won't change the parliamentary arithmetic or the chaos Brexit will cause. There'll be no escaping a GE and/or 2nd referendum anyway.
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