How the mighty have fallen

Subject: How the mighty have fallen.

Oh how the mighty are fallen. Mrs May when she turns out the light tonight as she slips into sleep must wonder at how she buggered it up. 

Yesterday she had a government with a majority, she was about to engage the Europeans in Brexit and no one had the courage to get in her way. No one knew or seemed to hold the brief she had for dealing with those pesky Europeans with their dodgy Commission and even dodgier President.
No one had looked into the pot she was stirring or saw the ingredients, she was the chef extraordinaire and as witches go, she began to resemble the Shakespearian tragedy in Macbeth stirring her own prophetic pot.
He grip on Parliament and especially on her own party is irrevocably weakened. The stirrings of discontent are already present and it is unsure if she will be allowed to continue for long. All this at a time when the Brexit negotiations needed a steady hand. Unfortunately her hand was seen by many as being too ideological, too stiff, too unbending.
Our position vis a vis Europe is changed and yet we still wish to trade with them. The election of Macron to be president of France has steadied the European ship and strengthened the tie with Germany. The need to make concessions to Britain was already weakened by his election and now with the vote of yesterday the negotiators in Europe see a weak Britain.
A hard Brexit, where we pulled out regardless of the negotiations which she had promised now seems less likely to be agreed by parliament over here and so we could be in for a stalemate and our exit becomes very messy.
To pull out of the free trade agreement with such a large trading body would do harm to business and therefore the standard of living over here. To loosen the strings of the European court and regulatory statutes would also be difficult if we wanted to trade with them since these regulations, tied to the legal statutes enforced by the Court, are fundamental to the commonality of reciprocal trade.
Free movement of labour which has so incensed people over here with, the strain it imposes on our health service, schools and jobs is the corner stone of membership and one wonders is it too high a price to pay for trade.
For too long there has been political smoke and mirrors. No one has been straight with the population over here. Our schools and hospital services are not in the state they are in solely because of immigration. We as a country have shrugged off the need to invest. Our creaking industries and industrial relations are the result of the deficit between a society which is split at birth and segregated through its archaic schooling system. People in power pay lip service to the needs of the country because they do not belong socially or emotionally to the same country. We talk the talk but don't walk the walk.
Could we get some sort of bolt on arrangement such as Norway has. The imposition of the free movement of labour would still be there, along with the monetary contribution we would have to make. All this without a seat at the table or a voice in future decision making.
I voted to leave on the basis that I hated the idea of becoming a subsidiary of the Reichstag. We had fought two world wars to prevent that and it seemed to me, especially after the disgraceful way the Bundesbank and the German Finance Minister Wolfgang  Schauble treated Greece and also the financial slight of hand, used by the ECB president Mario Draghi, which treated the people of the euro zone as unknowing collaborators to pay back the loans the "German Banks" had made to Greece. All this seemed to smell of power, too much power, un-

elected power, unimpeachable power and I wanted none of it.