re: #93 Hecuba’s daughter

Who would have been better among Tory party members? I am unfamiliar with the Tory players. Certainly no one in either Labour or Tory has distinguished themselves in this debacle, but is there someone who could have succeeded if placed in command of the party after the unfortunate referendum?

The only thing unfortunate about the referendum was that everybody underestimated the possibility it would succeed. Hell, even Farange insisted upon it being non-binding because he didn’t think would succeed and he didn’t want to lose the talking point. Cameron totally expected it would fail, leaving the issue much like “Replace & Replace” for our own GOP: A campaign issue that they use to whip up the far-right, but they know will never come to fruition because it’s massively unpopular.

It’s success was the worst possible scenario for the Tories because they had no plan for the damned thing actually happening. They figured Brexit would barely make it into the double digits, so they had no roadmap or preliminary plan for the negotiations that invoking Article 50 would required. Then they compounded their bad luck by having a leadership crisis, with Cameron bailing and catching Johnson and Farange with the shrapnel on the way out. May wasn’t handed a shitty situation, she volunteered for the job, and then upped the level of fucked the party found itself in by calling snap elections that cost them their majority.

So it’s not a question of “Who would be better?” because Brexit was never supposed to have happened in the first place. Once you’re past that point, all you’re left with is 31 flavors of shit.