Well, that “told you so” moment I had a feeling was gonna happen has finally happened.
Just as I had feelings that turned out pretty accurate that Team Brexit would win the referendum and that Donald Trump would become President as early as when he made the first whisperings of running when it was clear Romney would lose to Obama – I also had feelings that Theresa May would make a pretty lame leader of the Conservative party as a last minute bodge after Mr & Mrs Gove took Boris out of the contest.
With the arrival of the Chequers fake-Brexit plan, and the more recent arrival of “Project Fear 2.0”, she’s going down faster than Wile E. Coyote falling off the edge of a cliff.
The Chequers plan has gone down so badly with Grassroots members that local party bosses are seeing 75-90%+ of members giving it the finger, resigning membership, or can no longer be arsed to campaign for the party due to lack of things to be able to offer that they agree with. Even the chairman of her own local party is against it.
Conservative Party poll ratings have also taken a hit.
It ain’t doing much for our hopes of getting great trade deals either.
People on the Conservative side are calling for her to go even more than the Corbynista lot usually do – Time to pull the plug, and bring in either Boris Johnson or Jacob Rees-Mogg, or certainly at least Boris Johnson as Prime Minister, Jacob Rees-Mogg as Chancellor, and also get Priti Patel back in Cabinet somewhere (Deputy PM or Foreign Secretary, maybe?).
.@Jacob_Rees_Mogg on @SkyNews: What basically happened at Chequers was that a Cabinet appointed by a Remainer Prime Minister of a majority of Remainer Ministers voted to Remain pic.twitter.com/fv16ouymPc
— Leave Means Leave (@LeaveMnsLeave) July 9, 2018
The deal agreed at #Chequers puts Britain on the path of a soft Brexit. That’s not what the @Conservatives promised at the election.
— chloe westley (@LowTaxChloe) July 9, 2018
“If David Davis’s resignation wounds May’s dreadful, anti-democratic Chequers deal, that will be a good thing. But why aren’t other Tory Brexiteers resigning too? Boris? Gove? Their capitulation to May’s capitulation is a disgrace”, says Brendan O’Neill. https://t.co/SKrytVUKoZ
— spiked (@spikedonline) July 9, 2018
The inside story of the fateful Brexit summit at Chequers
Dark Art of Blundering! https://t.co/RirgXlvVh4— Bob For Full Brexit (@boblister_poole) July 9, 2018
Project Fear 2.0 – May Plans to ‘Scare People Witless‘ to Win Support for Soft #Brexit https://t.co/IcXb5IB723 via @BreitbartNews #MayMustGo #Conservatives
— ConservativeChitChat (@ConservativeCCh) July 27, 2018
‘Vassalage, Satrapy, Colony Status‘ – Boris Tears Into May‘s #Brexit Plan Again https://t.co/XNtXxhSxaZ via @BreitbartNews
— ConservativeChitChat (@ConservativeCCh) July 27, 2018
So Britain can survive, the WWI, WWII & the Cold War, but there will be Armageddon if we leave the EU without a deal. Could someone explain why?
— Effie Deans (@Effiedeans) July 27, 2018
Even if the Chequers Plan fails, the defence sellout is still on. Theresa May has ensured that the pointless defence policy giveaway is falsely pushed as an industrial and military benefit for the UK. It’s also lined up for a separate defence and security treaty in 2019. pic.twitter.com/Nof6YeWoYA
— Veterans for Britain (@VeteransBritain) July 27, 2018
Brexit Thought For The Day
The EU wants to blockade Britain, stop our planes flying, starve us of food and medicine, jam up up our ports as well as damage our security, economy and trade.
No one in their right mind would want to be part of such an evil regime, would they? pic.twitter.com/JfccM3jzSI
— The Core (@SocialM85897394) July 27, 2018
SAVAGED: Theresa May’s version of Brexit is absolutely slated by Tory Associations across the country.
‘Practically everybody was against the Chequers deal.’https://t.co/fSZUjsmQiv
— Westmonster (@WestmonsterUK) July 29, 2018
Tory factions ‘plotting to oust Theresa May by October’ https://t.co/o1IXdp4UbW via @PoliticsHome
— ConservativeChitChat (@ConservativeCCh) July 29, 2018
I hope Conservative activists and MPs are listening. You cannot sell Chequers as anything other than complete capitulation to the EU. Better to go back to a comprehensive FTA. https://t.co/oN7PbgpIa2
— Stewart Jackson (@BrexitStewart) July 29, 2018
Theresa May faces revolt from her own constituency chairman over her Chequers plan https://t.co/rDpKlyBOVJ
— Daily Mail U.K. (@DailyMailUK) July 29, 2018
TOP QC MARTIN HOWE rips #May‘s Chequers deal to ribbons, worst possible option and he explains why. https://t.co/lUGTDXt58n@borisjohnson #boris johnson #borisjohnson #Brexit pic.twitter.com/qsC4YtyZX9
— angie (@angelneptustar) July 29, 2018
“Reserve parachute” is too little, too late. Trade under WTO rules now preferred option with #EU27. Trade with rest of world mainly under WTO rules, growing much quicker than trade with EU. The norm. https://t.co/gDfP49xETe
— Ruth Lea (@RuthLeaEcon) July 28, 2018
