Brexit and the waning days of the United Kingdom

[garbon]

So she's agreed not to stand for election in the next general and has received in public enough declarations, that if they hold, she'll retain power.

[mongers]

So she's agreed not to stand for election in the next general and has received in public enough declarations, that if they hold, she'll retain power.

In theory yes, but if she gets fewer than 200 vote's out of 317, she'll be dead in the water as regard the Tory party; they'll move to 'coup' her and the remaining grandees will step in and ask her to step aside.

For a 'unity' candidate.

[Syt]

The BBC:

Theresa May wins confidence vote

Theresa May survives a vote of confidence in her leadership (200 voted for, 117 voted against).

She needed to secure at least 159 votes from Conservative MPs - half the parliamentary party plus one - to remain as leader.

[Richard Hakluyt]

The sweet spot, she remains as leader but with reduced authority

[mongers]

The sweet spot, she remains as leader but with reduced authority

Yes a knife edge result. 

And unfortunately close to my expectations.

[Zanza]

Cameron did this to end the conflict in the Conservative Party. I think it is fair to say he failed.

[The Brain]

Cameron did this to end the conflict in the Conservative Party. I think it is fair to say he failed.

Eventually there will be no Party. But peace.

[Syt]

"To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace."

[Richard Hakluyt]

Going to get through a lot of popcorn in the coming weeks.

[grumbler]

Brexit is easy! It can only be compared to WW2 that's how easy it is!

Yep.  A change in leadership in May 1940 kept the Germans from conquering France, didn't it?

[Monoriu]

Cameron did this to end the conflict in the Conservative Party. I think it is fair to say he failed.

I fear that history won't be kind to him 

[mongers]

Cameron did this to end the conflict in the Conservative Party. I think it is fair to say he failed.

I fear that history won't be kind to him 

No need to worry about future history, already a large majority of the British public think he's an utter twat. 

[Richard Hakluyt]

Cameron floated the idea that he might return to public life, possibly as Foreign Secretary; the public's response was something like "fuck off back to your shed you useless plonker".

Oh well, that's life.

[Monoriu]

Cameron floated the idea that he might return to public life, possibly as Foreign Secretary; the public's response was something like "fuck off back to your shed you useless plonker".

Oh well, that's life.

My first reaction was that he went a bit further than merely being useless 

[Tamas]

Guardian quoting a regional German newspaper:

All this hue and cry ... is only continuing to make British politicians and their people continue to look quite ridiculous. May has been demoted to a supplicant on the starting day of the EU summit.

I wonder if this will be seen later as the final end of the Empire... The time when the momentum from its existence finally ran out.