Theresa May's sudden repositioning of herself as a kindly consensus-builder is an extraordinary illustration of her seemingly endless willingness to completely reverse her political stance in order to preserve her own personal self-interest.
By saying that her door is suddenly open to the opposition parties to help her find a solution to the Brexit shambles she's created, she's brazenly demonstrating her incompetence too, by hastily attempting to do the consensus-building that she actually needed to do at the very beginning of the Brexit process.
It's beyond obvious that a national Brexit Commission drawing expertise from across the political spectrum, and across the nation would have been the sensible way to go, but when May rose to power she decided to wall the whole Brexit process off as a closed Tory shop to be run exclusively for Tory party political advantage.
She's only scrambling around pretending to be a consensus-builder at the last minute because her back's against the wall after the absolute farce she's delivered, and yet another screeching U-turn is the only way she imagines that she can continue defying the national interest by selfishly clinging onto political power for as long as possible.
Remember how she called her hubris election in 2017 in order to "crush the saboteurs"? Remember how she repeatedly tried to hide the Brexit impact assessments? Remember how she had to be dragged through the courts time and again to make her follow parliamentary procedure? Remember how she became the first Prime Minister in British history to have her government declared in contempt of parliament? Remember how the opposition parties had to force her into holding the vote she lost yesterday by a record-breaking margin?
If she'd had it her own way there wouldn't have even been a "meaningful vote" for her to lose by 230 votes yesterday, and we'd all be ploughing ahead with her absolute shambles of a plan with absolutely no means of stopping her.
She's wasted away 30 months with her constant autocratic scheming, her outrageous displays of hubris, and her outright incompetence, and now she's trying to reverse her position completely to present herself as a kindly consensus-builder!
It's just like when she instantly reversed her position from Remain to Leave in 2016 for the benefit of her political career.
It's just like when she totally reversed her position on "no snap election" when she thought it suited her self-interest to call one in 2017.
Now she's reversing her position from tyrannical Brexit queen who stubbornly refuses to listen to anyone else except her Tory mates and the DUP sectarians she bribed into saving her political skin in 2017, to instantly metamorphosise into the kindly consensus-builder who is going to save Brexit and heal Britain of all of the terrible divisions that she's just spent the last 30 months deliberately widening for her own personal political advantage!
Theresa May has proven time and again that she simply can't be trusted. How anyone could continue to put their faith in her after all of these blatantly self-serving reversals is absolutely baffling.
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