For Theresa May, ‘I’m a tin-eared lunatic’ seems to be the hardest word | Marina Hyde | Opinion | The Guardian

For Theresa May, ‘I’m a tin-eared lunatic’ seems to be the hardest word | Marina Hyde | Opinion | The Guardian: 

Arriving at the EU summit this week, Theresa May had that purposeful air of a school superintendent walking up the drive to the Addams family mansion, determined that Wednesday and Pugsley should be enrolled in a conventional educational establishment without delay. Some long hours later, May staggered back down the drive much as that school superintendent might, short of having no shoes and an actual bat in her electrocuted hair. 
 And so to the latest scenes in the Brexit farce. The formula for successful farce-writing, as laid down in the 19th century, is to get your character up a tree in the first act, throw stones at them in the second, then get them down in the third. As far as Brexit goes, the UK went up the tree voluntarily, and has now been throwing human waste at itself for two and a half years. 
Does anyone want to come and get us down? Sorry, it’s quite … disgusting up here now. We have been given a fortnight’s grace to get our shit together – which was almost the formal wording on the communique My sole point of light this week was being told that David Cameron had finished his memoir – and that the publishers want him to cut 100,000 words from it. No idea what that ....