Westminstenders: One Pepperoni Pizza Please. And a Milkshake To Go.

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On the Eve of the EU Elections that we never met to happen, and we don't know what the next hour next mind day might bring.

Farage is enjoying the theatre of milkshakes. It means he gets attention and gets to play the victim. And avoid talking about his dodgy friends and even dodgier financing. The Brexit Party are polling so highly its possible he could be PM. And boy does he know it. The temptation is there and its too much to resist.

May has refused to resign so far tonight after a day of asking her to. The 1922 Committee refused to change the rules to help oust her - possibly because they don't want the next PM to be beset with challenges to the leadership at the drop of a hat. Graham Brady is seeing her on Friday... The ERG are not happy bunnies.

May is still apparently planning to plough on with the WAB with a referendum possibly attached. Though this remains to be seen.

Meanwhile Leadsom has just quit the Cabinet. She was one of the Brexit 'Pizza Club'. Rumours are this might be the Cabinet withdrawing support for her. Though Gove has said he doesn't intend to resign (tonight at least).

Rumour is that May's senior staff have abandoned her to let her make the decision to go. And rumours are that when Leadsom rang May to tell her she was leaving cabinet, May didn't tell her senior staff. This comes two weeks after rumours where that Phillip May was at the point of telling her it was time to resign. The rumours of course may be just that, rumours but it's hard to see how or why anyone would tell her to carry on now.

And so tomorrow. Who would vote for this utter shower of shit? Even if you were the most loyal of Tories?

The thing tomorrow is to get the remain vote out. It doesn't matter ultimately what people vote for. Every vote cast for remain keeps the Brexit Party popular vote down. Even if it doesn't win seats. And that is psychologically important.

Tomorrow make sure EVERYONE you know who is anti brexit party votes. More so if they are a Remainer voting for a Remain party, but also if they are solid Labour or the rarest of things, a true blue.

It MATTERS. Narratives will be set.

If you are not sure if you are registered to vote, please TRY ANYWAY. The worst case is you are turned away and have lost 20 mins of your life. But you might also be able to vote and that might change the course of events.

Talk to people tomorrow. Remind them. Make sure it's about preventing a hard right foothold. Apathy will destroy our futures. Being fed up of politicians so refusing to vote is actively shooting yourself in the face.

Who am I voting for?

Still no idea. But I will vote.

BBC chose to reprise just the last emotional sentences as their first report.

Francis Elliott
‏*@elliotttimes*
A whole political career not showing emotion ends in tears. My word.

'We're ending austerity' but you guys caused it and it hasn't paid off debt at all.
'Union of people...all colours etc' hostile environment (even now when EU nationals couldn't vote and she wouldn't do anything about it when Joanna Cherry asked her
'Independent enquiry into Grenfell' but what did she do for those survivors?
'Compromise' she's the pathologically unable to compromise one!

I'm not sad for her. I'm horrified at who / what comes next. Please please God, universe, karma let it be Scottish self governance and we can be good neighbours and a place for the brexit-sick to come and live

I think she DOES care about Her Country - she is old school.

And she knows she has failed it. Badly.

I agree, she IS devastated.

pollyanna (love your name BTW ) - just as I predicted they would

You know what, normally I'd feel sorry for her breaking down in tears. But I don't. She has to own this and all of her travesties of injustice she enabled and committed under her hostile environment.

How many countless people has she reduced to tears and worse??

7th june she's out!

Genuine emotion there. I feel sorry for her. She did try, I think. As much as she was able.

I realise I have no killer instinct.

Brexit means Brexit and I failed.

'compromise is not a dirty word. Life depends on compromise'

No, pity you didn't remember what Nicholas Winton said three years ago then.

Real tears. I do believe that she genuinely tried, but her judgement was poor, and by failing to both consult and compromise she left herself exposed. Another Scalp for the Eurosceptic wing to enjoy, although this time they might have destroyed the party in the process.

I so wished she hadn't got upset as that's all they will show. No sympathy here, but I hoped she would hold it together really.

Oh im late to the party!

WHOOPEE!
Gus O'Donnel (spelling?) has the plot.
Just listened to his interview on SKY and he is talking sense.
All we need now is more to actually listen and understand.

Tttttttttt, some of the 't's that Gus left out.

She's crying for herself not the lives she and her government have ruined and ended and the families affected.

Selfish to the last. A true Tory.

I feel sorry for her.

Well I can't say I'm surprised, but I am dismayed. I'd readily concede that TM has in part been the architect of her own downfall but I do think she has been treated appallingly badly by a lot of people.

I think this is true for the ERG crowd from her own party in particular and also those across the House of Commons who decided to vote for a referendum, voted to begin the process of leaving but have since decided that they won't vote through a deal. I think some of those people might come to regret their intransigence on that point tbh.

At least Thatcher saved her tears for the car ride away from Downing Street.

I made a prediction about what May would do when she resigned, I didn't think she would whistle a happy tune as Cameron did. I think I predicted tears, but not just then.

I agree about her hostile environment, UC, austerity... all of it. Horrible.

She is a flawed human being (as are we all)
The tears will garner sympathy (mine inc)
but she only fleetingly deserves it really.
I couldn't do the job, so i wouldn't take it.
She couldn't do it, and shouldn't have taken it and held it so tenaciously.

I dread to think who comes next :(

For once and this must be a first, I almost agree with LouiseCollins! May's party have treated her appallingly. I hope they are happy with the result. However, I do think she has been the architect of much of her own misfortune.

I would not expect the Opposition to give her an easy ride, so in that respect she's been lucky to be up against Corbyn.

Real tears. I do believe that she genuinely tried, but her judgement was poor, and by failing to both consult and compromise she left herself exposed. Another Scalp for the Eurosceptic wing to enjoy, although this time they might have destroyed the party in the process.

Pretty much.

Labour are in not much better shape.

Which I'm sure we will discover come Sunday.

What will they do?

I don't feel sorry for her. The tears were solely because she finally got her hands on the prize she'd always wanted and then fucked it all up. No tears over Grenfell/Windrush/etc. Plenty for herself.

She had no choice.
I'm scared about who will take over though.

No sympathy for TM here. Apart from her time as PM, she has been destroying peoples lives unnecessarily since her start at the Home office and presumably other posts before that.
Being unpleasant to people just for the sake of it is so wrong.

I feel sorry for her.

Me too. I think she made some appalling choices, but I also think she was genuinely upset. I find it very hard not to sympathise with someone that upset, even when I think it is mostly of their own making.

How dare she cry for herself - her rich, protected self - after what she's done? Bloody hell she's self-absorbed.

With you Louise.

Theresa was on to a loser when she took the job. Her incompetence was always an issue. But she's been the victim of those who refuse to accept that Brexit isn't an easy thing for which you can 'just get on with it'. You can't.

Triggering A50 was the fatal flaw.