May’s Relaunch: Doomed To Fail

Re-launches do not work. Remember the one in the middle of the Tory campaign? The truth is that once the wheels fall off the wagon, that is the end of the trail. Whatever May says will have no effect, because the gap between her rhetoric and her delivery is already so well known that few will even listen. There are three options out there.

A grand war-time style Tory led Coalition with Labour, the Lib Dems and the SNP to deliver Brexit, with an election at the end. However it is unlikely that the Opposition parties would agree.

To muddle along as best as this broken government can, until the chaos of its Brexit strategy forces it to capitulate.

Have another general election in the autumn.

None of these is ideal or without risk. But the aftermath of the greatest political blunder since the industrial revolution, the Brexit referendum, will exact a political price few could have imagined. Nothing will be the same again.