https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/sep/20/eu-fears-theresa-may-will-not-be-able-to-uphold-brexit-pledges-keir-starmer
There has been no great rapprochement
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The
life expectancy of this conservative government can be counted in
months rather than years.
Similarly,
the expectations of Theresa May to remain as Leader of the
Conservative party and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom cannot
last beyond next Christmas or perhaps even less. Regardless of what
the usual suspects in the media may wish us to believe, there has
been no great rapprochement between the waring factions in cabinet,
or between Boris Johnson and Theresa May over the question of the
Brexit and the stalled negotiations with the rest of the European
Union on the terms of Britain's exit from the market.
Ever
since publication of Johnson's 4000 word article in the Daily
Telegraph
last
Saturday (16th September), there have been numerous reports of near
civil war in cabinet between those demanding that Johnson be sacked
immediately, and those supporting Johnson stressing that the Prime
Minister's position is too weak to sack him and in any case Johnson
is providing leadership by saying what needs to be said. Johnson has
held leadership ambitions for some years and now clearly sees this as
a perfect opportunity to mount a bid
for the top job. His cronies and supporters have spent the last 5
days, not very convincingly playing down the prospect of a leadership
challenge and with the
press, particularly the Express, Mail and Telegraph stessing how
Johnson has "stepped back from the brink" and now with some
miraculous reconcilliations, the cabinet was "a nest full of
singing birds". This of course is just pretentious banality,
churned out to mollify the public and present a unified face for
future negotiations with Michel
Barnier
and the EU team. It is today suggested that Johnson has agreed Theesa
May's "offer",
that
the United Kingdom should pay the EU 20 Billion Euro as an exit
payment and also that the Prime Mnister belives that Johnson is
"doing fine work".
Most
if not all of the soothingly reassuring words from each of the camps
are purely for public consumption and do not hide the reality of the
power stuggle taking place or the hostility of the Prime Minister and
her camp towrds the Foreign Secretary, hightened by her inability to
sack him. Boris Johnson often portrays the role of the "Fool"
in Morris Dancing,without
appearing really to be a part of it, but fooling
around while
actually adding to and not distracting from his
own position. The "Buffoon" became Mayor of London for 2
terms,
standing down in 2016
after being elected as MP for Uxbridge
and South Ruislip
the previous year. He now seeks to topple Theresa May as leader of
the Conservatives and
become "ipso facto", Prime Minister of this country.
However, the image of Johnson dangling from a Zip
wire waving two Union Jack's a
wearing
a blue
hard
hat,
is impossible to erase from our memory's.
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On
Friday of this week, Theresa May will be in Florence to deliver a
keynote Brexit speech to E U leaders seeking to underline
Britain's hopes for a "special partnership" with Europe
post-Brexit, but in fact is widely being seen as an attempt to break
the current deadlock in negotiations.
The outcome of this speech and the reaction to it will either mark
the actual end of Theresa May and her premireship, or be just another
sticking plaster to allow her to limp on in residence at Number 10
for another few months.
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Whatever
result
pans out from the Florence speech, Boris Johnson waits in the wings
for his eventual and I beleieve inevitable elevation to the top job.
We then will have the nightmare scenario of the blonde
buffoon in Number 10 Downing Street and the blondish megalomaniac
(who wants to totall destroy North Korea and presumably a number of
other countries as well), in the Whte House.
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