I think all of this stuff has been a complete waste of time.
A Government that doesn't implement the will of the people expressed in a referendum is playing with fire. Equally, a "second referendum" on whatever form that takes is precisely the sort of behaviour British people have complained about in the EU for generations: vote as many times as it takes to get the "right" result.
So while the People's Vote people have been trying to block Brexit or, rather, pretend it's realistic that it won't happen, we have been driven further into hard Brexit territory. When the Prime Minister set out her red lines in the Lancaster House speech, there was barely a credible opposition to it: the opposition, in the form of Jeremy Corbyn, were utterly useless.
Where were the voices pointing out that a huge number of Leavers had pointed to the examples of Norway and Switzerland? Or that they had overly said leaving the single market was ridiculous? Or that a pretty narrow victory for Leave calls for a bit of reaching out to the wider nation? There was no-one credibly pushing for a sensible Brexit. I can understand why: sensible, moderate options don't build passion and the disconnected elements of the electorate barely notice. But it really ought to have been someone's duty.
Now, no matter what, we have the hard Brexit mob seizing the narrative, suggesting that an EFTA-type arrangement would be a betrayal and that we would be "rule-takers". Then the PM's deal starts looking like the soft option because we have given these swivel-eyed ********s a clear run to do and say what they like, only being contradicted by an equally depressing set of pie-in-the-sky People's Vote prats.
I'm annoyed.