Brexit Crisis: No Again

The nation, indeed the world, looks on in disbelief as the hope that parliament having taken control,  showed it could exercise it, passes in another string of Nos. This is because there is no spirit of compromise at one level and at another far too many members have no idea what they are doing or why. Add to that a voting system which mathematically is almost certain to produce deadlock, rather than one which, by elimination through transferrable or preference votes, automatically reveals a winner, and you have the fiasco that the Mother of Parliaments has become.

So it is back to Downing Street for another Cabinet punch up. Anything can happen there. What should happen is an announcement by May that her deal with minor tweeks acceptable to Brussels will go back for its fourth vote but as a confidence motion. If lost the government will fall, May will drive to the Palace and advise the Queen to send for Corbyn. That will concentrate minds. Corbyn would,  with a crash Brexit hours away, have to use the Royal Prerogative to revoke Article 50 to save the nation from disaster.

The ERG could then go home to their various constituencies and explain how it was they played their cards with such skill and panache that they ended up scuppering Brexit and putting Corbyn in power. Popular events in the Tory Shires, to be sure.