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I remember the elation following the Lancaster House statement. People thought that in Theresa May Britain had a Prime Minister who would deliver on the Brexit and maybe, just maybe, make Britain great again a la Thatcher.

No one thinks that now, not even the vast bulk of Theresa May’s own MPs. Leave aside the usual suspects for the moment, the obviously ambitious but seriously flawed Boris Johnson or the stoic but spurned David Davis. Look instead at the likes of Iain Duncan Smith who looked positively pained as he sat down having received another vague wet flannel of a reply from the Prime Minister on the end of any involvement with the Customs Union. He wasnt the only one, of the 8 MPs that asked for this none received a clear reply and even the formerly supportive are at the end of their teather:

Ouch. Tory backbench Brexiteer Simon Clarke just told PM to her face “she has failed to reassure the House” that the UK has a specific end-date for her UK-EU temporary customs arrangement — Paul Waugh (@paulwaugh) October 15, 2018

Clarke had previously submitted a letter of no confidence in May only to withdraw it in favour of giving more time. His dilemma epitomises the schizophrenic approach of The Conservative Party to Mrs May. It is in a right fix. It can’t live with Mrs May but equally obviously it can’t seem to do without her. If Jeremy Corbyn wasn’t Labour leader Mrs May would have been offed long ago. Slowly but surely the uncomfortable truth is grinding the gears of Blue Brexiteers, Mrs May is not one of them nor will she ever be.

Voters know it as well. After Lancaster House, criticising the PM was a bit controversial, now to support her is to run the gauntlet in both the Brexit and Remain camps. No one likes her, no one wants her, she is merely tolerated as the lesser of two evils, for now at least.

As a, admittedly BBC but they cant always be wrong, journalist noted:

V little sign in the Commons of any one faction or grouping of MP s is in the mood to come to May’s rescue – quite the reverse – feels like mood hardening against her efforts to find a compromise — Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) October 15, 2018

The pure theatre of the Brexit negotiations no longer casts the spell it once did either. No one seriously believes that Dominic Raab’s histrionics are of any serious consequence. Go back to your offices and prepare for no deal the mandarins say. All of which tells us one thing, there will be a deal and it will be humiliating and painful for Britain. When that happens the penny will finally drop for the rest and this goverment will be buffeted by wave after wave of anger. Leave? Remain? Those questions still divide the country but what will unite it is the pain of betrayal and anger at the betrayers. Maybe having a common enemy once again will unite people in a way Mrs May’s government has failed to do when in office and turfing it and her out of office will be one thing, despite our still deep differences over what should replace it, we will all end up agreeing on.

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