This is how I see it Flour. If Brexit were to be seen as a political philosophy it has not got unifying party to drive it forward. Brexit is a cross party ideology that has fallen into a political void. Our political parties are grouped around a different set of values. We cannot deal with brexit in our current parliamentary structure.
Groups across different parties are vying for leadership of brexit but are operating within the confines of their party. The analogy is a football team going into a season without a manager with 3 players pushing to influence tactics after the game has kicked off.
So May spends 2 years creating a deal that no one likes. Parliament votes it down. And we blame MPs for the stalemate.
Yet, in truth, the stalemate is an unavoidable consequence of going into a referendum on a simplistic premise without knowing what leaving looks like or a plan for how we'd implement it.




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