[Margaret Pilkington]

Yes...I know son...and you have outlined the kind of person who would go and kick the bejasus out of JCJ....MB....and maybe even the Tusk guy.
But. Who is this person you describe....I cannot see him or her. I cannot see anyone who even vaguely approximates to what is required.

To be totally honest.....if David Davis had hung onto his hat....and Boris too.....there would not be a snowflakes chance in hell of TM getting her proposals through the final stages of negotiations.....because those in the position of negotiators do NOT want to negotiate....they never have and they never will.
Whatever the UK comes up with it will not meet with anything near approval because they want to see the UK walk off the cliff...they really want us to fail...and fail spectacularly.

It is grinding their nuts that we have not suffered trade losses and that our finances are beating what the doom mongers predicted.
So, if these chaps had held their nerve then our position would have been much stronger.
But hey, I get principles...but sometimes they cost too dear.