The PM is not to blame: no leader could hold a cap on boiling Brextremists,Binos (‘Brexit in name only’) and stay-insTodays great Tory schism has been brewing for decades. The virus began with a handful of oddballs long ago who made “Europe” the catch-all cause of all ills, and Brexit the miracle cure. Now the party is infected, and spreading the disease across half the country,mainly to their voters. Doughty Tory anti-Brexiters battle to rescue the body politic, but so far they occupy lost at every stage.
The volcano is alert to blow. Images of mayhem pepper political commentaries. She may be hapless, or hopeless and friendless,but Theresa May is not to blame. There is no leader who could bridge the yawning ravine between Jacob Rees-Mogg and Anna Soubry. Time was when the Tory party always knew one big thing: how to put power above everything else. No longer. Brexit passions hurry deeper than mere party loyalty, and rightly so with the country’s future in the balance.
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Source: guardian.co.uk