May and her economic advisors are aware that Britain does not have India anymore, a colony which Lord Salisbury referred to as “an English Barrack in the Oriental seas from which we may draw any number of troops without paying them” and strong industrial foundation on which an edifice of post-Brexit Britain could be erected. access to the single European market of 450 million consumers and bask in the glory of political ‘sovereignty’ which according to the Tories, has been popularly salvaged by Brexit. She is trying to get the best of both worlds, i.e. Perhaps in a fit of ecstasy, May said that “give us a fair deal or you will be crushed”. May has been unequivocal in her pronouncement for a bespoken deal which has the potential of setting a very bad precedent for the naysayers in the continent. An allegorical case of the current state of affairs would be that of a resident of a forest inhabited by both wild animals and exotic fruits, choosing to opt only for fruits without encountering the animals. The burden of a failed political gamble fell on Theresa May, who despite her bold theatrics in Parliament seems to have a very tough time negotiating a ‘fair exit’. However, the referendum marked the end of a ‘disjunctive’ Prime Minister who, according to Byrne and Randall “struggled to establish a clear policy vision”. The last minute lifting done by the latter resulted in the continuation of the union but at the cost of it losing a large chunk of traditional progressive votes and political space in Scotland. The referendum was the result of Cameron’s hubris emboldened by the Scottish independence referendum wherein the loss of the Union was averted not by the nationalist rhetoric of the Tories but the political acumen of the Labour party. The referendum conducted by the initially jubilant, later disgruntled former Prime Minister David Cameron threw Britain into the global economic gauntlet where it seems to be struggling to save its tattered loins. It calls for strange bedfellows at the same time leads to bedfellows becoming strange.
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