Today, Wednesday 4th October, the Prime Minister closed the party conference with her keynot speech. And despite all the promises of new policies, what she came up with was one nicked from Corbyn; build more council homes, and one nicked from Ed Milliband; cape energy rises.
Very little new on Brexit, still muddled, but nothing really to contradict her speech in Florence two weeks back, which is something. But, she coughed all through the speech, and apart from the Brexit gumpf, was OK, if unexciting. Thing is with Brexit being the only policy in town as it effects everything else. There was no new direction in the three main area that need movement, and as if by magic, this morning the EU agreed unanimously that there had not been sufficient progress on these three areas, so parallel talks could not start; this surprised no one really.
But of course it wasn’t her fault, nor her ministers, just those darned foreigners.
Boris still has his job, but the sight of Amber Rudd telling him he must stand to applaud May during one of her coughing fits would not have been missed as most news providers have posted the video.
So, May has got through the conference, but it politically fatally wounded, she almost certainly will not be in post in for the New Year. And all the time the Article 50 clocks ticks down, and another month has been lost whilst the Cabinet and the Brexiteers try to work out it is they actually want.
And there will be no transition unless Britain accepts the four freedoms and the UCJ.
All in all, not much has changed.
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