Why? Because every single Member of Parliament has failed to learn the lessons of the referendum vote in 2016 when, free of party politics, the electorate delivered the proverbial v-sign to our elected MPs.
A vote to leave the European Union gave Tories and Labour votes the chance to give Westminster a kicking without costing their party the chance to form a Government.
It was the biggest democratic mandate ever given yet those in power at the time and even now have failed to grasp its importance and significance.
The margin of victory was just 1.3million votes, which any Prime Minister ought to have recognised would provoke strong feelings on the losing side.
In delivering Brexit, the British Prime Minister ought to have found a course to take every rational thinking member of this country forward.
A strategy of delivering the outcome the majority won, while ensuring the sensible concerns of remainers were met would have seen far less problems.
But there lies the problem, thanks the unique talents of David Cameron, we only designed half a referendum. People were asked to leave or remain but beyond that it’s been open to interpretation.
Had someone with a brain been in charge in Downing Street, a two-step referendum ought to have been held in the event of a leave vote.
Having asked the people once, asking them which departure gate they wished to leave from was the next sensible move.
Instead all we have is a giant political football. The Prime Minister gets the ball, heads towards the goal of October 31 to cheers from the crowd.
But wait he comes the opposition with a two-footed lunge to steal the ball, to stop a no-deal result to great cheers.
All the while though the match goes into extra,extra,extra,extra time with no sign of a result, MPs enjoy their little victories, we the voters sink our heads further into the our hands.
Why? Because no-one in Parliament wants to blow the final whistle.
Brits are a cautious people, we don’t take bold risks – take a look at our elected Governments in the last century, either the red team or the blue team!
No Deal may deliver a result but it will infuriate large sections of the crowd and if it goes wrong it will only strengthen the EU’s hand should we ever be forced back to the table.
Any extension only provokes the agony, frankly people are bored of this now. The country becomes more and more fractured the longer this goes on, delays are simply tiresome.
Revoking would infuriate hard working Brits who voted in good faith only to be disgustingly branded racist and xenophobic for the past three years.
As far as I can see, any Government now has three routes out but all of them won’t be taken on by 650 selfish career hungry individuals who simply don’t understand how angry this country is.
Firstly, admit defeat and say Parliament won’t back anything so we are going to leave without a deal.
Next is to bring back the withdrawal agreement, accept it despite its litany of flaws and pass it so at least we leave on October 31.
Finally, a Conservative Prime Minister needs to admit the party has failed to deliver on the mandate
given by the people, that no deal would be too big a risk and Article 50 would be revoked to ‘stop the clock’.
It would destroy the party but shed no tears, the Conservatives opened up Pandora’s Box, they’ve never been able to close the lid.
