May's plan for an orderly Brexit just went down a 3rd and probably final time. No one knows how to avert a chaotic Brexit at this point, and time is running out.
Let's see...
o Thanks in no small part to hyperpartisan rhetoric on all sides, deep and angry political divisions affecting UK voters and government leaders alike led to complete legislative gridlock WRT Brexit.
o Short of a miracle, the gridlock has now precluded any orderly Brexit plan.
o A chaotic Brexit will by all accounts wreak economic disaster on both sides the Channel and a political disaster in Ireland as well. Today, May rightly called these consequences "dire".
o The dire consequences have been quite clear since the Brexit referendum first passed. And still Parliament couldn't manage to find common ground.
If it makes people of the UK feel any better, the US has been mired in hyperpartisan gridlock for over a decade. And we're headed straight for a few cliffs of our own.