Chaos and recriminations

Second only to Trump, the Brit Parliament is the laughing stock of the world.

Except it really isn't funny at all.

They can't even accept that the only alternatives before them are those put there by the EU:

So after insisting for almost two years that Brexit would go ahead on March 29, Mrs. May gave in and requested an extension until the end of June. 

But the European Union refused to give her that much time, declaring instead that the British Parliament must decide what it wants to do by April 12. 

If lawmakers somehow approve Mrs. May’s deal by then, the exit date would become May 22, to give them time to pass all the additional legislation it would require. 

If not, European leaders said, Britain’s choices would be a cliff-edge Brexit on April 12, no Brexit at all or a much longer delay, possibly two years. 

And it is astonishing how many Brit politicians now out of office, and how many pundits, seem to agree with that utter fantasy.

And even the Guardian's writers don't seem to get it, they just can't read or understand plain English.

So they are spasing around in all directions talking utter rot about what May should do or what the Tories, or the Parliament, or Labor should do, none of it involving actually facing the specific and real alternatives before them.

These fools have had two years since invoking article 50 and almost three since the plebiscite of 23 June 2016 to work all this out, and they have made an utter and abysmal shambles of it.

MPs call for May to 'fall on her sword' as Brexit deal faces third defeat

Meanwhile, the EU increasingly believes a no-deal Brexit on 12 April is the most likely outcome, senior EU officials have said, prompting Emmanuel Macron, the French president, to privately ask Leo Varadkar, the Irish prime minister, if his country could cope.

'Hope dies last': fatalism among EU leaders as no-deal Brexit looks likely

The EU increasingly believes a no-deal Brexit on 12 April is the most likely outcome, senior EU officials have said, prompting Emmanuel Macron to privately ask the Irish prime minister if his country could cope.

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“The fate of Brexit is in the hands of our British friends,” Tusk said. “We are, as the EU, prepared for the worst, but hope for the best. As you know, hope dies last.”

Senior EU officials said that after listening to Theresa May on Thursday afternoon, the 27 leaders were convinced that “a no-deal situation is an absolute very, very real one”.

“It is unfortunately, likely,” the official added.

Petition to revoke article 50 hits 3.5m signatures

She's not going to do that.

And she's not going to ask for a delay of at least two years.

So she has said, and if we believe her then when the Parliament rejects her deal for the third time she will watch and wait for April 12th, when the UK will crash out of the EU without any deal at all.