MPs vote to take charge of the Brexit process and Brexit gets even messier.

This means that next week there will be a series of non-binding votes on the Brexit process. No-deal, second ref and the Norway option will all be debated and voted on in Parliament against the wishes of the Government. May has already said she will ignore the votes, which would lead to a fresh constitutional crisis because in Britain our executive an legislative branches are merged (May and her ministers are MPs as well as the Government.)

The problem MPs have is that they have no legal or constitutional right to negotiate Brexit or sign the withdrawal agreement. Any international treaty or law has to be signed off by Theresa May and she is still Prime Minister. A zombie Prime Minister who won't listen, adapt or compromise is still the person whose signature matters. Another issue is that MPs voting against a no-deal Brexit but that is a bit like voting against gravity because unless a deal is agreed, we crash out with no deal. So a crash out Brexit could happen by accident unless this is resolved some other way.

Maybe the Americans here can imagine Congress and the Presidency being combined but then the Presidency and Congress refusing to work with each other and both insisting that they have the democratic mandate. Well yeah, this does happen but also imagine that the political system has a safety valve in which elections are usually called if a Government collapses. Now imagine that the nominally ruling Government has collapsed about five times but refuses to hold elections... or remove their leader or vote for bills that their leader wants to pass. Imagine that members of the actual Government regularly and openly disagree with their leader and vote against her bills knowing that she lacks the political capital to fire them. Also, imagine that the main opposition party is also divided on what it wants and confused over strategy. Imagine all this happening at a time of national crisis where time is of the essence and stakes are high.