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Maybot plods on, each day a greater torment than the last | John Crace

Her pain threshold off the scale, the PM has lost all grasp of reality

Many believe that hearing is the last sense to be lost. If true, Theresa May must have been a goner for some time now. She hasn’t heard a word anyone has said to her for months. Her cabinet ministers have all but given up trying to explain to her why her Brexit deal won’t pass through parliament and have instead taken to communicating with her through a series of placards. All of which say: what part of “it’s time for you to resign” don’t you get?

Not that this is proving any more effective, as the prime minister’s sight is equally as poor as her hearing. See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. The Maybot’s vital signs reduced to a random series of ones and noughts, intent only on the basics of minute-by-minute survival. All grasp on reality lost. The living dead.

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from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2JVN4db

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