Don’t pity May

IT’S almost tempting to feel sorry for Theresa May as the wheels continue to fall off her Brexit bandwagon.

There was fresh humiliation yesterday as she updated MPs on how things are going.

Summing things up, she had to admit that despite months of negotiations with our EU partners, nothing has been achieved.

She said we will have to prepare for “every eventuality” as we withdraw from Europe.

In other words, we’re spiralling headlong into a “no deal” Brexit that will stop us trading freely with the world’s biggest single market right on our doorstep.

To say this would be catastrophic for Scotland is an understatment. Thousands of Scottish jobs rely on open trade with Europe.

Hundreds of small businesses remain in profit thanks to their ability to sell products to our European neighbours.

All of that trade, and all those jobs, would disappear overnight with a no-deal Brexit.

This is real people’s livelihoods we’re talking about here.

Families plunged into poverty as jobs dry up. Ordinary businesses driven to financial disaster.

So although it is tempting to feel sorry for May, don’t.

It’s the rest of us that deserve sympathy –but there’s precious little of that from this pitiless excuse for a Prime Minister.