EDITORIAL: Brexit disaster shows what happens when leaders put party before country

SA politicians can learn lessons from the way the UK is managing the withdrawal and future relationship with the EUTopical: Not only is there the Brexit timetable and framework to work on, but the EU will also be further rocked by issues emanating from, at the very least, Italy, Spain and France. Picture: REUTERS

She still lost. A social media user noted that Theresa May proved to be so inept that she couldn’t even manage to fall on her own sword. The fact that nobody knows how this story will end, just 10 days before the country potentially crashes out of the world’s biggest and richest trading bloc — which accounted for 44% of its exports in 2017 — is a sad indictment of the UK’s political class.

The country’s reputation for pragmatism and predictable politics has been truly thrashed, and what was once one of the big powers in Europe has lost the respect of its partners.minister, Michael Roth, described the situation in words one would not normally expect to see in a business publication. He lamented what he called the “big shitshow” in Westminster.

Predictably, divisions within the governing Conservatives are threatening to tear it apart. With her cabinet openly squabbling and defying her, May is prime minister only in name.She won’t be the first Tory leader to be accounted for by the party’s divisions over Europe. Better politicians than her — Margaret Thatcher, John Major and David Cameron — all suffered the same fate.

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