Thread by @Staedtler

In fact, this tweet of twattish moronity tells me we need to go through the whole thing AGAIN.

https://twitter.com/DominicRaab/status/1093452967095738368

In the beginning David Cameron misused a referendum to try and solve a problem of racist and jingo bigotry in his own back benches.
And Boris Johnson decided to exploit that to beef up his euro sceptic credentials to grease his way into Downing Street.

You can see the ploy. Johnson was convinced he was going to be facing Osborne in the leadership contest, and he knew that would be tough, so he went for the euro sceptic vote.

And then Johnson won the referendum by mistake. "Springtime for Hitler" and all that. So Johnson ran away. He didn't stand for the leadership, and Theresa May ended up with it when everyone else dropped out.

So far all we had was a problem. The country had voted for something which nobody ever thought they would have to seriously execute.
All the Tories had to do was admit they did wrong, look how divided the country was, Scotland, Ireland etc.

Okay, it would have been mildly embarrassing to admit the whole thing was a mess. But they could easily have blamed that perfumed popinjay David Cameron.

But they didn't. Or Theresa May didn't. And this is where a problem became a disaster

Because what nobody had noticed, in spite of many years evidence at the Home Office, was that she was a foaming racist.
And it was now Theresa May's obsession with foreigners that made her think she could use Article 50 to get them out of the country

The purpose of putting Article 50 in the treaties was to afford the European Union a means of formally dissolving the membership of a country that wanted to leave. It was kind of a safety mechanism in case of fascism.

Okay, that was its original purpose. Then Theresa May came along. And like all racists do, of any shade from the mild to the extreme, she underestimated the intelligence of the European Union.

What Theresa May thought she could do - suburban racism in full flood - was use the Article 50 process to renegotiate the treaties of the European Union according to her personal prejudice.

This is what I mean by garden variety racism. She just assumed that foreigners were so stupid that she could give Article 50 notice, dictate new terms for herself, and the silly foreigners wouldn't know what hit them.

I don't think Theresa May is a racist in the sense of personal hatred of foreigners. I don't. I think her kind of racism just leads her to underestimate foreigners, in knowledge, commitment, skill, ability.

But the European Union is not stupid. They're not going to let a rattling Englishwoman dictate the complete overthrow of all the laws and institutions of the European Union.

Only a racist would ever have imagined they would.

Theresa May thought she would give Article 50 notice and sit back waiting for Europe to offer terms.

What. A. Fucking. Twat.

Well, it turned out Europe is not stupid. They saw Theresa May coming a mile off.
And they said no. You are not going to misuse the treaties this way. Article 50 is not a toy. If you give that notice, you will not get a treaty renegotiation. You will leave.

And that completely fucked Theresa May up. And she's been fucked up ever since.
She never remotely imagined that she would actually have to dissolve our membership, and nothing to replace it when we left.
never did it occur to her that this might happen.

And what the media is not telling you, behind all the gob and the full front bravado of the Tories, is how absolutely fucking bitch blind terrified they are at what they've done.

We can't afford to leave the European Union because if we did the Tories would be slaughtered, and they know it.
I mean, they're trying not to show it, but Jesus, the fear oozing out of them. they stink of it.

The Tories have tried everything they can think of to blackmail Europe into giving them a new treaty. Bribing with money, blackmailing with security, holding Ireland hostage and threatening the peace process.

If any government behaved anything like this one at any other time they would be torn apart for it, day after day, in parliament and the media.
But the whole English piddling class has been so lobotomised by the referendum three years ago, they've lost all proportion

Anyway, the English media is pretty much junk at the moment. They've got plenty of gossip but they've got no news.

Theresa May has got herself jammed solid. can't get a treaty, daren't leave without one, can't turn back.

And that's why she keeps running back and forth from her own Euro dementors, to the opposition, to Europe, and back again, round and round and round, looking for a way through. And there isn't one.

Europe is not going to give her a new treaty until she signs a withdrawal agreement. But she daren't sign a withdrawal agreement without a new treaty.

Theresa May has been playing a very stupid game for the last three years, and she has lost.

Now she will resign. Like I said she would all along.