I think one of the reason it’s driven everyone insane is that this is typically a very apolitical country. We think talking about politics is impolite, an attitude that’s bizarre to virtually any other European. But now something’s happened that can’t be kept quietly in the basement and it’s rendered us divided until the end of time and it goes on and on and on and PLEASE SOMEONE MAKE IT STOP.
Probably the most cunning aspect of May’s strategy is to basically play off that, keep holding her cards and spin it out until everyone’s just lying on the floor begging for the sweet release of death, at which point she can play her pair of threes.