It is hard, so very hard, these days to not look at every utterance from a beleaguered Prime Minister as a desperate attempt to hold onto some semblance of power.
But I will try.
So, Theresa – I feel we can be on first name terms now, we have been through so much – wants to move forward on a cooperative footing. She wants all sides to listen to each other, and put sectarian, party politics aside, for the greater good of the country.
Now, in principle, I would agree that this is a sound approach. Government should always be for the people rather than for the party in power.
But it then becomes a little difficult to believe in an adoption of honourable behaviour, when everything we have seen till now points in a very different direction.
Having called a snap election to bolster her position in parliament for the very specific reason that other parties were being – or threatening to be – obstructive, this seems to be one of Theresa’s more dramatic reversals.
However, reality is biting. Having scraped into power with the crutch of the DUP as her only means of staying there – with a nice healthy bribe to boot – she has been forced to dump, or at least rewind, a good proportion of the manifesto.
She now has senior ministers – and back-stabbers of the first order, based on their recent history – strongly suggesting that they should start adopting opposition ideas recently written off as unrealistic and unfinanced.
Whilst this could be looked on as an attempt to acknowledge the feelings of a large minority that didn’t vote for her, this is also where the cynicism starts to rear it head.
In her ‘sofa chat’ on The One Show, her sewing abilities were not discussed, but it definitely appears that Theresa is trying to put together a patchwork quilt of a fudge to keep those behind her quiet, whilst somehow appeasing an opposition with a larger variety of clubs to beat her with than ever before.
Running around in ever-decreasing circles is not an entirely edifying spectacle when it is a dog chasing its own tail. When It is a Prime Minister in free fall ……..
If she really wants a national consensus, then not only the Opposition Parties need to be listened to. The Remainers do as well. Just saying.
I am sorry, but cynicism is back with a vengeance.
There is one answer, and it is one that will never be mentioned by Theresa. Two words. Proportional Representation.
Then we can really start talking about what true democracy means!
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