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Blighty this week has been frying in record warm temperatures. The army had to be called in to assist firefighters dealing with large moorland fires in the north of England.
Out of control fires are perhaps an apt metaphor for what is happening in UK politics. Tory misgovernment gets worse with each passing day.
Tory handling of Brexit has been chaotic from the beginning, and is now beyond shambolic.
Ministers no longer leak surreptitiously against each other, since this has been superseded by denunciation and threats made brazenly in public by Tory Brexiteers and Remainers alike. These two hate each other more than they do the opposition Labour party.
The EU has always been crystal-clear that Brexit means exactly that, namely, the UK’s exit will be a 100% departure from the EU.
The Tories, split among themselves, are either fine with this (the “hard” Brexiteers) and a range of ad hoc factions craving “more flexible” options tending towards a “soft” or “softer” Brexit.
Theresa “the Maybot” May, a hack politician if ever there was one, is hopelessly out of her depth in dealing either with her own viciously divided party or the brutally uncompromising eurocrats in Brussels.
Where her own party is concerned, she tries to placate all sides, and of course ends up pleasing none.
It’s open season for the Tories when it comes to embarrassing the Maybot or undermining her in public.
In negotiating with the…