The Tories’ Brexit incompetence has become increasingly transparent uselessness next to the focused, well-prepared professionalism of EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier and his team the longer the negotiation process has gone on.
From attacks on the UK’s own ambassador to the death-stare Boris Johnson received from Theresa May during Prime Minister’s Questions for his ‘meltdown’ warning, May and her ‘team’ have made the Keystone Cops look like the SAS.
But it seems that incompetence is all-pervasive – extending even to the simplest of tasks.
The admin for the Tories ‘UK Prime Minister’ Facebook page only had one job on Thursday: publish a feebly crowing post of a picture of Theresa May and Brexit Secretary David Davis signing a piece of paper. But it didn’t go well.
The Brexit Secretary may be an unimpressive politician, but you’d expect his own party to be able to identify him reliably.
This isn’t the first time the Tories have confused one of their own MPs with an Australian of similar name. In January, the Tories tweeted thanks for a weekend campaign – to confused Labor MP Paul Scully, rather than his Tory counterpart.
The Tories lurch from one fiasco to the next – and the more they try to be cocky, the more certain that they’ll suffer a pratfall.
But their incompetence on Brexit is a disaster for the whole country. As Labour’s Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry told them last autumn, they need to move over and let the grown-ups get on with it.
It really does show them up for what they are. A bunch of incompetent prats.
Guessing those commemorative copies are destined for the cupboard under the sink rather than pride of place on anyone’s wall.
Most probably due to that ghastly Australian. lynton crosby.
The Tory party is an ant vortex, nearing fatal exhaustion.