CHAOS THEORY

Two years ago one Tory charlatan promised stability only if Britain made him PM. Now his charlatan replacement is spinning the same line. Don’t trust a word of their ..

THERESA May says only she can bring stability and strong government to the UK.

It’s an eerily familiar boast. Back in 2015, David Cameron made exactly the same pitch to voters. The two years that followed have brought unprecedented chaos, turned Britain into an international laughing stock and featured a complete and utter lack of any political leadership. So why on earth would anyone listen to a word Theresa May says now? The prime minister wants you to believe she’s a leader with a plan. But the Prime Minister is deluded if she thinks anyone’s buying it. This is a

politician who backed Remain until it was convenient to go full Brexit.

May furiously denied the need for a democratic endorsement of her premiership – until it looked like she could ditch the dead wood and do away with Labour.

She says a second independence poll will cause uncertainty but is happy to plunge Britain into chaos with a snap election.

It’s a mirage. May is no better a leader than David Cameron, and that’s saying something.

Remember, Cameron was the man who gambled it all on Europe just to settle an internal party squabble.

It was a massive blunder that no one in his government was really prepared for.

At the time, Cameron told the nation he would offer a steady hand on the wheel.

Remember two years ago he infamously claimed Britain faces a simple choice – “stability and strong government with me, or chaos with Ed Miliband”. The comment has not aged well. May hopes that if she makes similarly strong-sounding statements a grateful nation will follow her off the cliff.

In another ploy straight from the Cameron playbook, May yesterday tried to scare English voters by raising the prospect of Labour going into coalition with the SNP.

She said Britons faced a choice between “strong and stable” leadership under the Tories and a “weak and unstable coalition of chaos” with Corbyn and Sturgeon.

This is nonsense, of course, just as it was in 2015 – and May’s hypocrisy would almost be funny if it wasn’t so serious.

Yet her supporters cheer her on like the iron lady they clearly wish for.

May’s glib comments that “Brexit means Brexit” are given mythic status.

In reality, they are empty statements designed to buy time while the Government desperately work out what to do next.

Now we’re told the simple act of opposition is a devious attempt to undermine the national interest. That’s a dangerous road to go down. This general election must not be allowed to turn into an argument about “crushing” dissent.

Already May’s loaded words are being twisted into something even more ugly.

In the space of one year, a narrow vote to leave the EU has been transformed out of all recognition to suit narrow interests.

An astonishing 48 per cent of Britons are being sidelined. In Scotland, nearly two thirds of voters backed our place in Europe. That’s also been pushed to one side.

If May was a real leader, voters would be promised a clear vision of what Brexit means before we trudge to the polls on June 8.

That’s unlikely, and failure to spell it out makes a mockery of the need to cement her position with an early election.

If May was a strong, confident leader she’d not be running scared of a TV debate.

The tragedy is how far the definition of leadership has fallen. We need honesty, humility and the promise of reasonable answers to desperately vital questions.

With May, we’re getting none of it.