May plods on in her death spiral as Farage circles his prey | John Crace

The prime minister mentally checked out weeks ago and Westminster is sleepwalking

An endangered species was seen in Westminster today. The increasingly lesser-spotted prime minister. But not even a nationwide appeal and a David Attenborough miniseries can save her. Theresa May is doomed to extinction. She knows it. The whole world knows it. Her eyes are hollowed-out sockets. She’s stopped feeding and it’s all she can do to bring herself to walk aimlessly round in circles. Not even the Four Pot Plants rate her chances of survival any more.

Often you get people queueing round the block to catch a last glimpse of a dying breed in her natural habitat, but the Commons was half-empty for prime minister’s questions. May’s removal has already been factored in and it’s as though she’s already been disappeared. Nothing she says now is of any interest. Even to herself. PMQs has become a pointless formality that might as well be observed. Not least because no one’s got anything much better to do with their time.

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from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2VuS62d