There are occasions to celebrate. This is one of them. Dominic Raab is not launching his campaign to be prime minister this morning. Surely, that's good enough news to at least cheer you a little?
The fact that May is weaker than ever is just one of those things. She might say it can't get worse now. Maybe, personally, it can't. She has won the right to go at a moment of her own choosing in the next twelve months. When she has so little to celebrate that must seem like a victory.
For the rest of us this senseless mess continues unabated and we still have no effective Opposition in the sense that, as yet, Labour still asks for things that it knows will not happen on the basis that this prevents their disagreements on what might happen becoming apparent.
Someone asked me yesterday why I had complained of being tired. Too much travel was the easy answer. But fatigue from observing too much failed political leadership is probably another cause. And I have little hope that Christmas will offer respite.
I cannot be alone in thinking ‘What did we do to end up here?'
No doubt May does too. But at least she knows she can quit at will now.
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What would you say is the probability of “no-deal Brexit” now Richard? I’d say it’s still less than 50% but growing all the time. It could happen if May’s deal is voted down but she refuses to cancel Article 50 and then Parliament simply runs out of time before 29 March. There seems to be no sense of urgency to avoid a national crisis and that’s very damning.
I’ll blog you a reply Howard
“What did we do to end up here?’” Voted. People really should take more care over this.
[…] My friend and occasional co-author Howard Reed asked on the blog this morning: […]
The concept that anyone such as the Raab, with his overinflated sense of his own brilliance, and who dismissed the use of foodbanks as caused by temporary cashflow problems, is mind blowing.
I’ve been feeling raabed for sometime, like the morning after a successful Burns’ night.
The Wee Ginger Dug blog has renamed Raab as “Dominic Raab C Brexit”, which sums him up perfectly.
🙂
Hmmm…. there are quite a few other ostensibly eligible Tories I’m glad are not setting out their stalls this morning too.
As for Mrs May….as I read it she only said she was not going to be leading the party into the 2022 election. She didn’t undertake not to lead them all into an election before then. Or indeed after then so she could do both, even without telling porkies which is something she doesn’t seem bothered about anyway.
And indeed a snap election or one forced by a no-confidence motion (drums fingers patiently) would shift the election schedule in such a way there wouldn’t be a 2022 election to not lead.
Let us be very careful what we are thankful for and as ever careful what we wish for. 🙂