Good ol’ westerns often show an ailing cowboy crawling through a desert. As the camera pans out, we see a canteen discarded half a mile back. His mouth is parched, lips chapped as prunes and he is sucking what we assume to be his final breaths.
Up above vultures hover and our hero gives one last heave of his body to prop himself up against a boulder.
Raising a clenched fist skywards toward his would-be attackers, he defiantly croaks: ‘I ain’t finished yet!’
Yet another humiliating Brexit delay has made the Prime Minister a dead woman walkin'
Sir Bill Cash, pictured, described the PM's decision to agree to a further Article 50 extension as an 'abject surrender' and called on her to resign
The Prime Minister is not finished yet. A late night of negotiations in Brussels had clearly taken its toll when she addressed the Commons yesterday. Her features were drawn and her eyes like puffballs. Unwisely, she also wore what looked remarkably like an undertaker’s coat.
But for now, still warm is the blood that courses through her veins. However, it is clear that many on her own benches would like to see otherwise.
Yet another humiliating Brexit delay has made her a dead woman walkin’. Daggers weren’t so much unsheathed in the chamber yesterday afternoon as they were being flung angrily in her direction.
Did any make contact? Not quite. But today begins an 11-day Parliamentary recess. Plenty of time for those rowdy bandidos to hone their aim.
Mrs May had come to update the House after extending Brexit until the end of October. Blue-on-blue enemies, that is to say Brexit hardnuts from the ERG, surrounded her. Jacob Rees-Mogg (Con, West Somerset) chatted beside Boris Johnson (Con, Uxbridge).
Steve Baker (Con, Wycombe) who has the intense gaze of a man who enjoys torturing insects, perched menacingly in front. Forming a pincer movement on the upper east side of the chamber stewed Sgt Major Mark Francois (Con,
