British prime minister needs things to get worse before they can get better. 😂
Relax & chill for a moment < soothing >
Funny but too flattering explanation of May's strategy
(she doesn't actually have one except "When in danger or in doubt, run in circles scream and shout")
https://www.politico.eu/article/brexit-deal-negotiation-kamikaze-theresa-may/
The runway is in sight, the lights are on, but Theresa May has to wait for the last possible break in the storm clouds to try to land her juddering Brexit jumbo.
Last weekend, negotiators from both sides identified the likely landing zone,
pinning down key parameters of an agreement on Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union and the first outlines of a long-term relationship.
Aboard the lurching airliner, sirens are screaming,
the fuel gauge is on zero,
vomit bags are at the ready,
and oxygen masks are dangling.
But the passengers will have to be far more scared
before the British prime minister can risk a final approach to the narrow airstrip,
praying the plane will not blow up on landing or overshoot the tarmac.
When the details of her plan became clear, rebels in May’s Conservative Party and her Northern Ireland allies threatened to storm the cockpit,
defenestrate the pilot
and crash the plane if she dared go into the landing.
So great was the political turbulence that May told the EU control tower she needed to circle a while longer before attempting another descent. 😂
May’s best hope of outmaneuvering her opponents is to move late, fast and ruthlessly.
The real deadline is December.
Whether or not we get a Brexit deal that permits a relatively gentle glide path toward a new economic and political partnership
hinges on May’s ability to keep hold of the joystick and convince mutineers in her crew they will all die together
if they force her to change course.
We’re not quite there yet.
< more fun-filled months to go 🤯 >