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the washington post’s european correspondent skewers theresa may and blames her for everything

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...a41_story.html

choice quotes (these are just mostly insults, there are long explanations in the article) :

She is not sensible, she does not know what she is doing, and, increasingly, she doesn’t seem to be entirely sane either.

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almost everything about Brexit — from the nature of the deal she negotiated to the divisions in her party and her country — is very much her fault.

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She is not to be pitied: She is the worst prime minister in living memory, presiding over a crisis of her own creation.

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The list of her mistakes is not short.

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But her errors go even deeper. In fact, all of the events of the past two years have been shaped by a decision she made, by herself, following bad advice, at the very beginning of this process.

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Her decision also created potential problems for anyone who trades with Britain or works with Britain — and for Brits who trade and work in Europe. But she was not sorry: She accompanied her decision with a speech that called “a citizen of the world” nothing more than “a citizen of nowhere” and immediately alienated a large part of the country.

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She went on to alienate almost everyone else. Until this week, nearly three years after the referendum, she made no effort to reach across the aisle and include opposition parties in the planning for this momentous national change.

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Although the E.U. has been entirely transparent about its negotiating goals from the beginning, she kept hers secret. She tried, and failed, to prevent parliamentary scrutiny of her deal.

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She does not respond to pleas, advice, suggestions. Columnist Matthew Parris has described her as “the Death Star of modern British politics,” a black void that sucks in people and ideas and never provides a response.

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Her secrecy and incompetence have created ill will in Europe, and real anger in the House of Commons, some of whose members have belatedly tried to take control of the Brexit process.

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she spent her whole life, motivated by loyalty to the Tory party, training for this job. Now she has it — and she has used it to steer her country into a humiliating crisis.

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The slogan of the “Leave” campaign, back in 2016, was “Take Back Control.” But Europe has now taken back control of May’s botched Brexit. And however it ends, it won’t be a success.


lmao

now i finally get it