Thread by @Staedtler

You're all so obsessed with kicking cans and running down clocks and getting things over lines.
You've built your whole understanding out of cliché, and it is entirely wrong.

Well, let me explain why it's all codswallop. What your clichés add up to is the idea of deliberate delay.
The reason for delay is, or so is believed, to blackmail parliament into accepting at the last minute what they otherwise would not.

Actually, your clichés don't even fuckin add up. Kicking the can just means delay, putting off. Whereas getting things over the line is a struggle to achieve the necessary end, to exclusion of all else.

Unless she's trying to kick the can over the line, I honestly don't think you've ever tried to visualise these actions because you keep saying two opposite things.

On the one hand you think she's trying to achieve, and on the other you think she's trying not to.
You really need to make up your mind what you think she's doing. And there are two possibilities. I know what I think she's up to.

What I think she's doing is trying to get a withdrawal agreement that meets the approval of both the European Union and Parliament.

I think she's actually trying to find it. I don't think it exists, but i think she is trying to find it.

I don't think Theresa May is running some complicated plot because I don't think she's that bright. As people go, I thinks she's a little bit thick.
I don't think she's operating to any plan at this stage, I think she's just got way out of her depth.

The simple answer is the best, and it's the one I gave you two years ago. She misused Article 50 to try and get a treaty renegotiation, and Europe said no.
Every since then she has been stuck. She's not moving because she doesn't know what to do.

Theresa May has got herself stuck. Parliament won't accept the withdrawal agreement as it is, and Europe won't rewrite it.
She's not running down any clocks. She hasn't got a fuckin clue what to do next. She really hasn't.

And I still think she's going to do what she should have done when she lost her vanity election. She's going to resign.
She's got no majority, and now her party itself is even falling apart around her ears.

And I think a lot of people get it wrong about Theresa May, I think they mistake cluelessness for scheming.