Mrs May

Subject: Mrs May.

Once more we have seen pathos and the theatre of Downing Street as a Prime Minister steps down from office. The power of high office in which decisions are made, which effect us all are made by an individual who is much like us, with strengths and weaknesses, ideological hang ups, susceptible to their own interpretation of the world around them and to the events which unfurl beyond their control.

Breaking down emotionally in the last passage of her speech she revealed, once again the patriot she is, a Tory version of a patriot but a patriot never the less. 
It's uncomfortable to see someone who has always appeared so steely when at the dispatch box in parliament or delivering a speech to the Mansion House in London. Even as Home Secretary she stood her ground in front of the Police Federation as she announced her swinging cuts to the Police Force. 
In her dealings with Europe she always carried the flag with dignity, dealing with such  Machiavellian characters as Jean Claude Juncker with poise whilst unable, at times to hide her distaste for him. Another distasteful leader Donald Trump, the antithesis of Mrs May the vicars daughter was assimilated by her in Washington as part of the office she represented.
It's often said she is not a clubbable person, she doesn't seek sociability and seems very content in the company of her close confidant, her husband Philip. They content themselves on holiday, walking the moors and paths of the UK rather than tagging onto the rich and famous, a weakness attributed to the Blairs. Philip and Teresa always seen to be happily in each other's pocket, will weather the the disappointment together but with the nagging doubt, 'if I had done this or that perhaps the outcome would have been better.  
She was handed a poisoned chalice from David Cameron who clearly not up to the job, slithering off into the grass at the earliest moment. Her poor reading of her popularity made her go back to the electorate when she didn't need to, a move which hobbled her position from then on leading a minority government just at the moment she needed all the power to put the Brexit bill through its stages. In her speech she made mention of Nicolas Wintertons advice about the power of compromise, as if that was one of the things she was known for but just the opposite, she often appeared stubborn  to the point of being obsessive, listening to no one in her self belief to fulfil the will of the people. How often she repeated that phrase but she was seemingly blind to the almost equal number who had voted to stay in the EU. What about their will, where was the commitment to acknowledge that 15 million people voted to stay and 17 million voted to leave. It was never envisaged as a binary decision since what the winner wanted was diametrically opposite. The need to bring the other side along was never politically engaged as policy. It's the Westminster mentality of a 'first past the post' system of governance in which the losers are ignored. Mrs May seemed oblivious of the fact that the parliamentary mathematics were against her from the start and perhaps, with that whiff of Churchillian make believe, her patriotism obscured reality.
Give me the patriotic backbone of Mrs May anytime to the incoherent deceit of Boris Johnson but sadly, Middle England seem determined to inflict more pain on themselves and us for the foreseeable future.