(Hadalsame) 25 May 2019<\/strong> <\/span>– What would you like me to say? What else is there to say about Theresa May<\/a> that I haven\u2019t said in spades over the past three years?<\/p>\n

Six months ago, I almost threw in the towel. I was forced to admit that the invective mine was exhausted, the bile well had run dry.<\/p>\n

Nothing I could write was ever going to shift her. Nor should it. I\u2019m an old-fashioned Fleet Street song-and-dance man, not a politician.<\/p>\n

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$\"Predictions$ <\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Predictions of Theresa May’s departure are about as reliable as most of those football transfer stories that turn up in the sports pages. Eventually, one of them will prove to be right. But until then, the Prime Minister is still standing<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Of course, she wasn\u2019t going to listen to me. But that\u2019s not the point. She doesn\u2019t listen to anyone, except for her husband and perhaps a small group of advisers.<\/p>\n
Even then, I\u2019m not so sure. If they have summoned up the courage to tell her the game is up, she hasn\u2019t taken any notice so far. Can anyone, in all sincerity, believe a single thing she says any more?<\/p>\n
In the words of the late, great bluesman B.B. King: \u2018Nobody loves me but my mother. And she could be jivin\u2019, too.\u2019<\/p>\n
As the Cabinet learned to their cost yet again this week, she simply can\u2019t be trusted. They thought they\u2019d reached an agreement which would allow her to put her dismal, defeatist \u2018deal\u2019 to yet another vote.<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s entirely possible, of course, that by the time you read this, Theresa May (pictured above voting in yesterday’s European elections) will be gone. It is also possible that Hell might freeze over, bringing a battalion of flying pigs crashing to earth<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
But when she got on her hind legs later in the day, they could only watch in horror as she sold them out to Labour, capitulating to demands to let MPs decide on a second referendum.<\/p>\n
Not that it did her any good. Labour threw her calculated act of appeasement back in her face, even though it would have given them pretty much everything they wanted. Yet when some Cabinet members tried to see her to protest, she flatly refused to talk to them.<\/p>\n
Former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith summed it up perfectly: \u2018The sofa is up against the door. She\u2019s not leaving.\u2019 That, presumably, is the same sofa she spent six months hiding behind during the EU referendum campaign.<\/p>\n
So, yes, May might say she\u2019s going to stand down, once a timetable has been agreed with the backbench 1922 Committee. The latest speculation has her announcing her resignation today. Believe that when you see it.<\/p>\n
Predictions of her departure are about as reliable as most of those football transfer stories that turn up in the sports pages. Eventually, one of them will prove to be right. But until then, the Prime Minister is still standing.<\/p>\n
She\u2019s like the only surviving building at Hiroshima, after everything else had been destroyed by an atomic bomb.<\/p>\n
Last night she was said to be consulting her husband about the timing of her resignation. But don\u2019t bank on Philip May pouring her a large Glennhoddle, putting his arm around her shoulder and whispering softly in her shell-like: \u2018Time to go, old girl. You\u2019ve had a decent innings.\u2019<\/p>\n
No chance. Even if her middle stump had been knocked out of the ground, she would refuse to leave the crease.<\/p>\n
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She doesn\u2019t listen to anyone, except for her husband and perhaps a small group of advisers. Even then, I\u2019m not so sure.\u00a0If they have summoned up the courage to tell her the game is up, she hasn\u2019t taken any notice so far. A stock image of the House of Commons is pictured above [File photo]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Philip May gave the game away during a meeting to discuss whether to risk a snap election in 2017. He told those present that they didn\u2019t appreciate how long it had taken the couple to get into No 10 and they weren\u2019t about to give it all up in a hurry.<\/p>\n
When that election went pear-shaped, and cost the Tories their majority, Mother Theresa refused to accept any responsibility \u2014 despite having made the campaign all about her. Instead, she sacrificed her two closest advisers.<\/p>\n
Then again, loyalty has never been her strong point.<\/p>\n
Just ask Damian Green, who was always described as one of her oldest friends. She\u2019d known him since university. But rather than stand by him when he was accused, at the height of the #MeToo madness, of \u2018inappropriately\u2019 brushing a young woman\u2019s knee in the dim and distant, she simply threw him to the wolves.<\/p>\n
Never has any Prime Minister lost so many ministers \u2014 either because she sacked them, or they resigned because they simply couldn\u2019t put up with her betrayals any more.<\/p>\n
The latest to walk the plank, after this week\u2019s fiasco, was the Leader of the House Andrea Leadsom. Shame on the rest of them for not following suit.<\/p>\n
If they had done the decent thing, maybe \u2014 just maybe \u2014 May would have been gone by now. Then again, I wouldn\u2019t put money on it.<\/p>\n
Over the past few days, she hasn\u2019t given the impression of going anywhere in a hurry. She\u2019s even appointed a replacement for Leadsom \u2014 someone I\u2019ve never heard of, called Mel Stride. I thought Mel Stride was Gazza\u2019s agent. Or was that Mel Brooks?<\/p>\n
Actually, I\u2019m not even sure whether Mel is a man or a woman, like those two Spice Girls. Meet Mel S. Frankly, I can\u2019t be bothered to find out, since he\/she won\u2019t be there long.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, Mother Theresa toddled off to the Palace for her weekly audience with the Queen, as if she didn\u2019t have a care in the world. I\u2019d love to have been a fly on the wall at that little chinwag.<\/p>\n
The only surprise is May didn\u2019t insist Her Maj went to Downing Street for an audience with her. That\u2019s if she wasn\u2019t barricaded behind the sofa at the time.<\/p>\n
May behaves not like a Prime Minister, more like an absolute monarch, believing she can govern by regal writ.<\/p>\n
How else to explain her bovine insistence that the only realistic Brexit is her Brexit? I don\u2019t remember that being on the ballot paper in the referendum, do you?<\/p>\n
What else should we expect?<\/p>\n
She never wanted to leave the EU and, as her dumped adviser Nick Timothy relates, has only ever seen Brexit as a damage limitation exercise, not a golden opportunity.<\/p>\n
Three years ago, almost to the day and in the run-up to the referendum, I found myself sharing a bottle of Chateau Thames Embankment with a senior party official in her Maidenhead constituency. They\u2019d just had a meeting to discuss Brexit.<\/p>\n
Of the 200 people in the room, only one spoke up for Remain. No prizes for guessing who. May is sometimes compared to Gordon Brown, another socially dyslexic PM reluctant to admit that his time was up.<\/p>\n
But in Gordon\u2019s defence, despite his awkwardness in public, in private he could be warm, generous and chatty \u2014 unlike May, who has all the personality of an I-Speak-Your-Weight machine.<\/p>\n
Not that I\u2019ve ever broken bread with her, but those who have say that even over an informal lunch it\u2019s impossible to get a smile out of her. Or any kind of recognisably human reaction, come to that, let alone a juicy indiscretion.<\/p>\n
You can\u2019t say I didn\u2019t warn you. The day after Call Me Dave called it quits, I wrote that May shouldn\u2019t be allowed within a million miles of Downing Street.<\/p>\n
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On Wednesday, Mother Theresa toddled off to the Palace for her weekly audience with the Queen, as if she didn\u2019t have a care in the world. I\u2019d love to have been a fly on the wall at that little chinwag<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Regular readers will know I have been consistently critical of her, ever since she saddled the Tories with the crass tagline \u2018The Nasty Party\u2019.<\/p>\n
She was a fourth-rate Home Secretary, responsible for everything from the Windrush scandal to the explosion in knife crime, and will be remembered as the worst Prime Minister in living memory \u2014 even though the sooner her disastrous term in office is forgotten the better.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s entirely possible, of course, that by the time you read this, she will be gone. It is also possible that Hell might freeze over, bringing a battalion of flying pigs crashing to earth.<\/p>\n
Even so, I wouldn\u2019t change a word of what I have just written. Nor do I retract a syllable of the harsh criticism I have heaped upon her over the years. It was all richly deserved.<\/p>\n
She should have resigned ages ago, after the 2017 election. Having failed to do that, she should have gone following her disgraceful attempts to bully the Cabinet into swallowing her risible \u2018deal\u2019 at Chequers last summer.<\/p>\n
There isn\u2019t space here to revisit everything I\u2019ve said about her. So I\u2019ll simply leave you with the conclusion of a column I wrote a couple of months ago . . .<\/p>\n
\u2018Her legacy is to have presided over three wasted years of vacillation, obfuscation, cowardice, downright sabotage and the destruction of a once-proud democracy, where MPs used to feel honour-bound to represent the will of the people who paid their wages.<\/p>\n
\u2018Theresa May, to her eternal disgrace, has turned Britain, one of the world\u2019s greatest economies and military powers, into an international laughing stock.<\/p>\n
\u2018She has broken Brexit, and now Brexit has broken her.\u2019 What else is there to say?<\/p>\n
By:<\/strong> Richard Littlejohn for the Daily Mail<\/a><\/p>\n
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