Thread by @althecat

What happens next:

Davis's departure almost certainly signals a @BorisJohnson leadership challenge.

But there's not enough time to go through the usual process, so Jacob Rees-Mogg will have to be given something to fall into line - before the coup comes together.

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If Boris succeeds in displacing May he will off to Brussels and blow up discussions. Boris's views on his own capacity as a deal maker being as delusional as Trump's. This will likely destroy any chance of a deal being delivered in time for European Parliamentary approval.

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Alternately Boris will do the numbers, discover he doesn't have a shit show, and bottle it. Leaving Jacob RM to mount an equally unlikely effort to displace May. /3

May having rid herself of several turdulent plonkers, will then set about trying to figure our how to get a deal in Brussels , but will no longer have to argue the toss over every minor point. /4

But instead, she will now face some very vocal and active heckling and disruption efforts mounted supported by the print media machine which is more than anything responsible for this debacle. /5

Brussels delighted that Boris has received his comeuppance will do its best to dress up May's proposal in a manner which makes it look viable, albeit probably not agreeing to the Treaty that can be cancelled at will structure presently being proposed. /6

With her newly refined Brexit fudge in hand May will return to Parliament to present her deal to a Conservative party at war and will need Labour votes to get whatever she wants through. But that won't work. /7

At which point she will resign, be replaced as new leader of a divided party and a fresh election will be called. Except there won't be time for an election before March 29th by then, not that that will matter to Jeremy Corbyn. /8

With the benefit of devine alacrity this process will be completed by November - and presumably the Public will send Corbyn and Starmer back to Brussels to again be told that Cakeism won't fly. But by then it will be early February... tick tick. /9

The new Parliament will be split over the crap deal, but English stubbornness will be victorious over common sense as by then there will be no time for a People's Referendum to cancel. /10

Not everyone will celebrate the fact freedom of movement will remain, but a collective sigh of relief will be heard from a majority that Single Market Access has been secured and that being in a Customs Union will save Northern Ireland's border. /11

To @NicolaSturgeon's dismay Scotland will have no justification to leave the union. Then after a 2 terms of Govt., UK/EU negotiations will commence with a view to agreeing terms for the UK to rejoin what will by then be a booming EU. /12

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