2/10 - Must Try Harder

Theresa May says the withdrawal agreement is as good as it gets. In thrall to her unaccountable  negotiators, she  tells us one thing then wrings her hands and does another, always in the national interest, of course. I remind her of the words of a rather more principled Conservative predecessor, "whatever the true interest of our country calls for is always possible.”

He also said: "all political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs."