Some of those traits are the qualities of a bigot . e.g the refusal to talk to other political parties until she had to.

Yes he started the present sequence of bad government but did not have the balls to correct it. Mrs May took on the poisoned baton but made her own unique mistakes.

@Mcflewster that’s what I thought. I have been in Australia for 12 years so everything Brexit is pretty much second hand and I have no idea what means what and all this talk of a backstop! I don’t get any of it to be honest?

@Geoffrey51 It is a plot by rich 'dealer' type politicians to make money out of uncertainty and negate the EUROPEAN COURT OF JUSTICE. ALSO hold in check people who cannot afford to deal. THIS theory has not yet fully emerged but something like this is probably TRUE.

@Mcflewster thanks, sounds true to form!

Cameron was certainly misguided in calling for a referendum. The Conservative party knew what they were getting when they voted May to fill Cameron's vacancy. It is debatable whether May knew what she was getting herself into, although it is said by some that she thinks she is doing her duty. All I can see is May putting herself first, her party second, and the wider community a poor third. She is unwilling to take a broad view. Like most religious people she does not believe that other viewpoints might just be valid, let alone have merit. So, in answer to Mcflewster's question, I think her attitude and actions are the result of a combination of her upbringing, "faith", and conviction in the rightness of her actions. Yes, she is a bloody difficult woman, without the charisma or intellectual pragmatism to get the UK out of this mess. The rest of the world is commenting on how sad it is to witness the rapid decline in influence that the UK has had in Europe and beyond.