Right now Mrs. May is in a room with leaders of the EU states.
It seems they are telling her that if the Parliament does not accept her Brexit deal in time then either she revokes the UK's article 50 withdrawal from the EU before then or the UK will stumble out of the EU with no deal on the 29th of this month.
Corbin has refused to rule out revocation of the article 50 withdrawal, though what he says he actually wants in a soft Brexit with a better deal than hers.
Meanwhile, some in Parliament are still ignoring reality and demanding she magically obtain an extension so the Parliament can figure out some really excellent deal, so much better than hers.
May has said all along she will not revoke article 50, no matter what.
Parliament has three times rejected a no deal Brexit, but she has many times said she would rather a no deal Brexit than no Brexit or even temporary withdrawal of article 50, which she like the other Brexiteers has insisted for years now would be a betrayal of democracy and the trust of the British people - though at the time of the Brexit plebiscite everyone knew it was nonbinding and merely consultative, though David Cameron's most stupid move in his whole life, all the same.
The Tories back in the day and ever since promised to honor the result of the vote, and so here we are.
Petitions site crashes as a million back call to revoke article 50
The UK government’s petitions website crashed on Thursday as more than a million attempted to sign a plea for article 50 to be revoked.
The petition began gaining signatures on Wednesday evening after Theresa May criticised MPs for not approving her Brexit deal.
It had received almost 600,000 signatures and was growing at a rate of 1,500 a minute before the site crashed.
At about 9am a message appeared stating that the site was “down for maintenance” and asking users to “please try again later”.
A House of Commons spokesperson told the Guardian: “The petitions site is experiencing technical difficulties and we are working to get it running again urgently. It has been caused by a large and sustained load on the system.”
The site was restored by 9:40am, although it collapsed several further times until it was fixed in the late morning.
By 3pm in the afternoon, the millionth person had signed the petition, after gaining well over 900,000 signatures in one day.
Ironically, the millionth signature was itself delayed, as the weight of users checking the site for the crucial milestone again forced it briefly offline.
The petition calls on the government to revoke article 50 and keep Britain in the EU, continuing: “The government repeatedly claims exiting the EU is the will of the people. We need to put a stop to this claim by proving the strength of public support now for remaining in the EU. A people’s vote may not happen, so vote now.”
Not buyers remorse.
The story continues saying the signatures were overwhelmingly coming from areas of the country that voted to remain in the EU.
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