I will go with the third way ! , the noside theory . May takes every day as it comes , she does do a lot of work trying to assess the next step , but she does not try to go more than one step in advance , because there are too many variables . She appealed against the High Court judgment , not to postpone Brexit , or from the mad idea she was right to believe she was entitled to trigger A 50 outwith Parliament , but to buy HERSELF and the GOVERNMENT time to do more pondering and planning . She could appeal , so why not ? No downside . She hopes that as she proceeds , the next step is always clear , and as Chairman Mao , hahaha , said , a journey of 10000 miles begins with a single step . I don ' t know if cricket analogies will resonate , but it ' s like a test match like the last one against India , in fact , where you cannot win , you can only draw . The only way to survive is to bat for two days on a turning pitch . So you have to bat like Boycott or now , Baby Boycott Haseeb Hameed . It can be done Atherton has done it , so has Collingwood memorably , some last wicket stands by Anderson , and even , God help him , Panesar , have enabled us to see out draws and win the series . It is well known that in these situations , all one can do is set oneself small goals . Survive the next half hour , score another 25 runs , get to tea etc . Another analogy is rock climbing I used to do a lot of it . One was frequently stuck , but the general advice was ' try to move up even a few inches everything will then look completely different . ' And it invariably does . May is a workaholic and control freak , so she quite enjoys being Prime Minister . I still believe she has a strong sense of duty and the common good . She just plays everything with a straight bat and sees what the next ball brings , or the next few inches . Every night , and on Sundays at church she prays to the Anglican God for guidance . In the last Test , we did lose horribly against India . Cook and Hameed survived brilliantly till the end of Day 4 then both were out and we collapsed very quickly on Day 5 . But on other occasions , this has worked for the team . By drawing a crucial match early in the series , we have won the series . The ' miracle of Cardiff ' 2009 is a case in point , but there have been others . If you want some examples from history , well , how about the Zulu wars ? It can go horribly wrong , like Isandhlwana , but this resistance can be a heroic success against the odds , like Rorke ' s Drift . I do believe the Cabinet appointments , by putting Boris , Fox and Davis in the firing line , were the right thing to do . We are told there can be no running commentary because the government doesn ' t know what to do and doesn ' t want to look foolish there ' s nothing more complicated involved .