It\u2019s probably quite nice to be Prime Minister, going to all the best dos, having people listen to your bloviations, having the second best address in London and having the power to vaporise France but if you don\u2019t have the ability to do anything useful – other the aformentioned services to French air quality – it\u2019s pointless.<\/p>\n
And you don\u2019t have that ability. You don\u2019t have a majority. The deal will be voted down again. If Parliament can make you send that grovelling extension letter – you know, the one you said dying a ditch was preferable to – what else is it going to make you do? Even if Brexit did get through you wouldn\u2019t be allowed to get any of that Brexity goodness done like reducing tariffs, re-introducing traditional units and sorting out the railways. You are being turned into a cipher.<\/p>\n
You must not allow yourself to be treated like this. You must resign.<\/p>\n
Let the Queen find someone to be Prime Minister. Convention – for what it is worth these days – requires her to first of all call upon the Leader of the Opposition. Corbyn. That will be a laugh. Oh, he might just about be able to cobble together a coalition around stopping Brexit. They might even be able to hold their rigged referendum. But it doesn\u2019t matter. Because, every day, every hour, every minute Corbyn and the federalist fossils stay in undeserved power the more hated they will become.<\/p>\n
Remember, it can\u2019t last long. Eventualy they will have to do some real politics at which point that Frankenstein coalition will collapse. And then we really will have to have a general election. Which you will win – not least because the interregnum will have given Cummings the chance to have that operation that he\u2019s been putting off. And then you really will be able to get Brexit done. On your terms.<\/p>\n
As our French friends might say: reculer pour mieux sauter.<\/p>\n
Yours in the struggle,<\/p>\n
Phineas Phosgene<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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