Brexit Cliffhanger: The Hanging Questions

So here we are.

Still we do not know whether or what Brexit.

Nine days to go and counting.

But where to?

Would there have been a referendum if Labour had won the 2015 election? No.

Should there have been a study to determine what Brexit involved, what it meant and how to organise a smooth transition into a new status, before the referendum was called? Yes.

Was the straight Remain or Leave question, without any knowledge of what came next, fair to the British people? No.

Was this whole Brexit saga, which has already poisoned the traditional equilibrium of society at every level and for which the true cost will remain for years unquantified, all about the Tory party and its schism between raw nationalism and one nation internationalism? Yes.

At the very start of her premiership should May have ignored the Tory nationalist wing (as Churchill shunned the Tory appeasement wing in 1940) and reached across the House to form a consensus for an orderly and sensible Brexit, backed by business, the unions and the young, who will be left with the outcome? Yes.

As a consequence of all those failings are we now in a crisis? Yes.

Can we get through it? Yes.

But at what cost at every level is the question which is left and for which there is yet no answer.