Theresa May might buy some time with snap election
Over the past year, the UK political landscape has been absolutely and utterly bizarre. This time last year, the country was in the middle of a Brexit referendum campaign that few in the UK really understood. The pro-Brexiteers were making all sorts of outlandish promises of an economic, political, and financial variety that were never going to be delivered. That became apparent once the referendum was over and many of those involved on the pro-Brexit side deserted the ship with undue and indecent haste like scared rats.
Of course, the governing Conservative Party was split down the middle on the issue, as has always been the case in relation to Europe. It, therefore, was incapable of running an effective campaign to stay in the EU. Hence it fell on the Labour Party — led by an individual who had been scathing of almost everything to do with the EU during his political career — to lead the Remain campaign. This was always going to be a recipe for disaster and hence it turned out. David Cameron stepped down as prime minister shortly after the Brexit vote and Theresa May took over. She immediately appointed a rather strange team without the intellectual or ideological capacity to handle the Brexit process and the world has subsequently witnessed a circus.
