Ministers appear to be simply ignoring the Prime Minister in her opposition to free votes. They now want to involve MPs in the decision. Of course plenty of people were telling them that right from the start, but they not only tried to ram everything through with a minimum of discussion, they even misled with false information. Theresa May was complicit in all this.
Perhaps even more despicable are those like David Davis and Boris Johnson at the centre of the process who resigned late on and then pretend to have had no say. At any rate we seem to have ended up with a mess that can only be really solved with a new General Election or a new Referendum. I suspect the former is still unlikely, and only a new referendum offers the chance of getting out of this mad hall of mirrors.
Until then I expect the government to stagger on a chaotic diodarchy without collective responsibility and ministers making random interventions in their departments while the real problems of the country are ignored. Of course, if the voters voted to continue the Brexit process we will get more of the same for years and years and years.
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