So there we go.
A couple of days of backbiting and bloodletting, and we find ourselves in exactly the same place as we were on Sunday night.
There’s still been no vote on the deal, because it will lose.
The rest of Europe is still not going to renegotiate the backstop (because the UK already agreed to this, knowing that it contained the things they’re now complaining about).
May’s set of red lines still contains the inherent contradictions of no hard border / no customs union / no internal border
So we’re no closer to a deal, hard brexit is still the default if parliament can’t pass anything, and everything is getting less strong and stable by the second.
The only ways out I can see right now are:
- No confidence vote in May- then replace government with a pan-remain majority from Most of Labour, The Remain tories (possibly headed by Ken Clarke) The SNP, Lib dems, Greens and Plaid.
- Hold the vote and carry an amendment to force a people’s vote where the two options are the plan or Remain.
- Take the car, go round to Number 10, Kill Boris (sorry Boris), Grab Wales, Go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint and wait for all this to blow over.
How’s that for a plan?
