For those, like me, who cannot stand to listen to the damned woman here is the full speech in text

May's speech

To me it is typical political doublespeak. I seldom trust anything politicians say and trust maid May and her merry men even less. There are however a couple of things that have stuck with me. The first is the line

"We must bring our country back together, taking into account the views of everyone who cares about this issue, from both sides of the debate.".

To me, this is vital. The division caused by this is horrendous and, at its worst, caused the death of a young woman and an unprecedented rise in hate crime. We must work to heal these rifts. This does not mean those against brexit should roll over and play dead. Far from it, we should work tirelessly to make the best of a bad job but it should be without antagonism. I don't doubt that those for leave, particularly on here, will continue to repeat the 'tough shit, you lost' mantra but as even May and BoJo seem to understand that the concerns of all must be addressed then I will give them the benefit of the doubt and hope for a sensible arrangement. We shall see.

The second thing is that it mentions new agreements with the EU and the rest of the world. As a globalist I find this quite optimistic. The world has limited resources. They should be metered out to the whole world, not just to powerful trading conglomerates. If there is one single piece of good that could come out of us leaving the EU then it should be the strengthening of the global economy. Of course that could entail a single global market, customs union and global freedom of movement. Wouldn't that be lovely for those who want the borders closing :-) Again, we can only wait and see.

Overall, I don't feel the speech did much, if anything, to strengthen our position but it did give me a bit of hope in unexpected ways. Of course it could be just politicians lying to us again but we are used to that.

DtG