She has already asserted (with no obvious backing in fact) that "There is a sense that people are coming together and uniting behind the opportunities that lie ahead". That's her "sense", presumably, also known as wishful thinking in the service of perceived political necessity, and her view of the "opportunities" which she has religiously refused to be better than vague about.
She will have tutted when her minion David Davis spoke of achieving "the exact same benefits" from Brexit negotiations, and not over the lamentable American grammar. He should have known - after all, everyone should know - that the target is the "best possible deal". What is there to argue about?
The policy has been admirably summarised by... oh, somebody or other...
We'll do everything we can— Ed Wilson (@eddwilson) April 19, 2017
[which might not be enough]
to get the best deal we can
[which might be crap but the best possible] #r4today
The main point for May, and for most commentators, is that this hurried election is solely to produce her own mandate, so that she does not have to rely on a manifesto by David Cameron (remember him? It already seems a long time) and a leadership given to her by default.
This is May's June ME election.
And after Cameron's running rings round the broadcasters in 2015, to dictate a set of TV "debates" which disadvantaged him as little as possible, May has gone one step further and tried to ban debates altogether. A chair should be procured, with suitably modern and tasteful upholstery, to represent our prime minister in all its defiant emptiness, as debate rages around it on the election issues which aren't about ME/May.
I've put in a plea for a daily fact checking slot on the Radio 4 Today programme, supplemented by live fact checking and corrections during interviews. I don't hold out much hope, but after last year's fact-free zone of a referendum campaign, you have to try. Every programme, every media outlet should face the same demand.
