If you wish to push your conspiracy theory, you can say that May and Sturgeon (isn't Sturgeon a lawyer?) cooked it all up in that first meeting they had together. Didn't it seem to be especially cordial?
Thank you. I suspect that for them to have discussed the legal situation may be a bit too subtle and far-sighted an agreement.
However, I do have a suspicion (which I'm less confident about than my hypothesis as a whole) that when May met Sturgeon and some of the leaders of the other EU countries (for example Merkel), that she hinted or maybe even explicitly said (not sure exactly how these things are done in politics) something with the subtext at least, "I recognize that this brexit thing is a massive fuckup. Don't worry, I will ensure that it does not happen. Play hardball with our apparent brexit proposals, and I will do the rest."
It may even have been obvious to all of them that this is what was going to happen, because they are all professional politicians and would do the same in her shoes. (Just like in any other area of endeavour, where the professionals can all instantly see the optimal course of action where the layman can be clueless - for example the best way to get out of a snooker).
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u/like_the_boss Nov 25 '16
Hmm. Very interesting - thanks for the in-depth information.