Dances with Brexit

The Prime Minister gave her end of conference speech, and came onto the podium to the tones of Dancing Queen. She did a robotic thing not in time to the music, some have described it as dancing, but not by me. She also tried to make jokes in her hour-long speech.

None were actually funny.

She said that unless the country comes together on their own form of Brexit then we might not get a Brexit at all.

Like this would be bad news.

She said her party and the country should rally round her plan. The plan that the EU have rejected. Twice.

The trade part is unworkable as the one "proposed" by Boris de Piffle Johnson on Monday.

So, two drunks are arguing about a losing ticket to last week's lottery whilst the rest of the world looks on wondering what the fuck went wrong with this country.

I wonder the same thing on a minute by minute basis. I have no idea.

Just as May was preparing to make her speech, a backbencher wrote a letter to the 1922 backbencher committee stating he had no confidence in the PM. If 60 others feel the same way, then May might fall. But her speech wasn't terrible. Neither did she have coughing fits as in last year. She was just average.

Promising to spend yet more money on keeping fuel prices below the rate of inflation, more money for the NHS, now, that seems to ring a bell, and lower taxes. How all this is going to be paid for, as she also promised the end to austerity if her form of Brexit is passed by Parliament.

That at the same time as the Tory Conference was winding down, the EU President, Donald Tusk said there would be no compromise, no extension to A50, the EU was fed up with Brexit and wanted it over with. And who can blame hom and the EU?

27 months on from the referendum and the Conservative Party is still arguing with itself on what Brexit means, thinking it still has 6 months time, when in fact, the clock has almost run out. All indications are that if nothing is agreed before the end of next month, then talks will just stop, and the EU will prepare for the worse.

May might have averted a leadership challenge or some other political crisis for now, but one is coming, and the later it arrives, the worse it will be.