Is this democracy ? b.c.
Of course not!
It's totally bizarre. The only item on the Westminster agenda is Brexit but despite their abject failure to deliver a negotiated departure and their disastrous performance (<10% of the vote) in the EU election the Tories remain in power with the new deadline at the end of October looming.
At the same time, Jeremy Corbyn was still sitting on the "we're consulting our members" fence this morning and leadership seems to have gone awol when it's most needed.
We're now facing a Whitsun recess (apparently MPs need another holiday) followed by a Tory leadership election campaign which will identify a new aspirant (probably Boris Johnson) for that role by sometime in July. Unless something changes and the Tory inspired Fixed Term Parliament Act makes that unlikely, the new Tory leader will then take over from Mrs May as an unelected Prime Minister.
All of which brings us to August when the EU is on the beach. The British political parties all hold their annual conferences in late September leaving little parliamentary time to achieve any constructive progress before the EU October deadline. The conclusion is that, if we leave in this scenario, it's highly likely to be without a negotiated deal which no one voted for.
The consequences of a no deal Brexit go way beyond the economic impact on both sides of the English Channel as it will seriously threaten the existence of the United Kingdom. The Scots will vigorously pursue independence and renewed sectarian issues in Northern Ireland can't be ruled out.
All this and, of course, the massive opportunity cost associated with three years of unproductive endeavour resulted from David Cameron's origin decision to offer the country an EU referendum in order to solve a Tory party problem.
Whatever the rights and wrongs of challenging that very flawed democratic exercise with a second vote, I live in hope that we'll be offered the chance of a confirmatory vote before we accept the outcome of this sorry exercise; especially so if what's on the table is departure without a deal.