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But she now needs to win an election. So bugger to any reality, she's got to build this insane image to win her silly election.
And the image she's curating is the EU slaying Queen. Down with the EU and their bureaucrats, at any and all cost.
All your points make sense, and are fair. But that's not the game. And it is ALL a game to them.
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May has not much to lose... The rest of us do.
As an EU national I find all this quite worrying, Erdogan uses a similar narrative.
Perhaps us mainlanders are more paranoid after two world wars and millions dead.
What bothers me too is that the media also turns the EU nationals against the UK, the nuance gets lost there too. A lot think it's what the UK wants...which isn't that true with a 48/52 split and lotsa lies.
Who really deserves this crap bar a few total assholes?
JWestland
There's a massive chasm between Brexit (UK is great, EU evil, we are the shit) and Remain (we are just one of the EU countries, a big one, but we have to play nice it's the way it is)
How do you even close such a gap?
It would be nice for May to understand the EU has to do some posturing too (elections, Le Pen, innit) and the EU to understand 48% of people are really quite unhappy and aggravating the situation is really not helpful (though it's entirely the fault of the referendum, the EU cannot comment promises were broken cos then that's seen as interfering...) but ultimately the UK did sign a contract.
It's like not paying your mortgage and being a dick about it, instead of understanding it sucks, but trying to come to an arrangement suits both parties better. May seems to be unwilling or unable to keep brexiters/remainers/the EU all somewhat in a good mood.