Did nobody else in the tories even want the job, so she had to keep on trucking? Or what's going on there?
I'm sure a couple of the more rabid Brexiteers would have
taken it (Boris Johnson, David Davis, perhaps Michael Gove), but I doubt that any of them would have won a leadership election. Anyone with any sense wouldn't touch the job with a barge-pole at this time. Current expectation is that she will quit after Brexit happens in 2019, at which point I've no idea what might happen.
TBH though when you look at what has happened in the past 18 months:
- an unnecessary referendum, leading to
- the unnecessary resignation of the Prime Minister, leading to
- an unnecessary leadership contest within the ruling party, leading to
- an unnecessary general election
- (leading to an unnecessary coalition with a bunch of fucking bigots, but we'll gloss over that)
After all of that, another unnecessary leadership contest within the ruling party
within the time-frame of some of the most complex and critical negotiations in recent British history ... well what's to say really. So I think that there are enough sane heads in the Tory party not to force the issue at this time.
Some of my left-leaning mates reckon May will be gone by next spring, followed by the election of Johnson as Tory leader/PM, who will make such a hash of the job that there'll be a general election, won by Jeremy Corbyn, who will call a halt to Brexit. I mean, I guess stranger things have happened, but it does seem a bit like wishful thinking to me.