Please keep it on the back row

Subject: Please keep on the back row.

Watching Mrs May bounce back and forward, between her seat and the dispatch box answering questions from parliamentarians on all sides, reminds me of watching Geoff Boycott playing cricket for Yorkshire and England. His stonewall style, straight bat to each ball, dealing with each as a singularity, totally separated from the innings as a whole, not interested in the run rate but only in the time spent at the crease.
Her strength is also of someone who has to spend time at the crease, she is playing for time in that deadlines are coming from the timetable which Article 50 triggered two years ago. Each week and each month she scrapes by, handing off the opposition (playing that other game) she pirouette and sidesteps the tackles, slowly getting closer to the try-line. She understands that perhaps that will be enough. The complexity of the deal she is tabling bewitches the mind and unnerves the sane observer. Her team, those who are left, will congratulate her for the try but only then to announce to her she has scored under the oppositions post.

Yes she is beginning to resemble that other female prime minister who's famous utterance "the ladies not for turning", reflected Mrs Thatchers attitude to the growing unemployment her economic package was causing and highlighted the 'winners and losers' philosophy which her tenure in office was all about. 

Perhaps the "Iron Lady" will be cheering from the grave as this modern day Boadicea standing at the same dispatch box, hectoring the class for not keeping up.