UK Parliament Running on - running on empty Running on - running blind

So goes the Jackson Browne lyric, an apt description of not only the UK Government under Theresa May but the official opposition under Jeremy Corbyn.

As the BBC reports

Prime Minister Theresa May has called off Tuesday's crucial vote on her Brexit deal so she can go back to Brussels and ask for changes to it.
As it stands the deal "would be rejected by a significant margin" if MPs voted on it, she admitted.
But she said she was confident of getting "reassurances" from the EU on the Northern Ireland border plan.
But European Council President Donald Tusk said the remaining 27 EU countries would not "renegotiate" the deal.
While EU leaders would be willing to "discuss how to facilitate UK ratification" of the withdrawal agreement at Thursday's summit in Brussels, he suggested the controversial Northern Irish backstop, which the DUP and many Tories want removed, would remain in place.

 The prime minister's U-turn came after she and senior ministers had spent days insisting the vote would go ahead, despite the scale of opposition from MPs being obvious.t prompted angry scenes in the Commons, with MPs from all sides complaining that the government had denied them the right to have any say in the move.
Labour's Jeremy Corbyn, who accused Mrs May of "losing control of events" and "disregarding" MPs, was granted an emergency debate in the Commons on Tuesday while Commons Speaker John Bercow said the government's handling of the issue had been "regrettable".
And Lloyd Russell-Moyle, the Labour MP for Brighton Kemptown, was expelled from the Commons after grabbing the ceremonial mace and trying to take it out of the chamber.
He was stopped by an officer of the House who returned it to its place on the table

So a government in total disarray , but so are Labour whose  the front bench seems equally delusional.

In an interview with Germany's Der Spiegel, extracts of which were published today, Corbyn was asked if he would stop Brexit if he could because the U.K. is so divided.

"We can't stop it," he said. "The referendum took place. Article 50 has been triggered. What we can do is recognize the reasons why people voted Leave."
"I think a lot of people have been totally angered by the way in which their communities have been left behind. We had high Leave votes in the most left-behind areas of the country. In a lot of deprived areas, working conditions have deteriorated over the decades, protected by European legislation."

Corbyn said that if he was prime minister and in charge of the Brexit negotiations, he wouldn't face the same problems as Theresa May "because we wouldn't be trying to face towards the deregulated economy of the United States, which the one wing of the Tory Party is trying to do all the time.

"We would want to make a new and comprehensive customs union with the European Union, one that would obviously protect the Irish border — that's crucial — but also ensure that our supply chains worked in both directions. People voted Leave, or they voted Remain, but nobody voted to lose their job. Nobody voted to reduce their living standards or working conditions."

Quite so but how could Corbyn leave the EU  as he wants to in  circumstances  different  to Mrs May?


He would meet the same (indeed even more so)problems with his backbenches and particuarly  Northern Ireland


Corbyn was asked whether the possibility of a confidence vote in Theresa May’s administration explained why, to the consternation of some of its MPs and sister party in Northern Ireland, the Labour leadership taken the same absolutist line on the backstop as the government’s sometime confidence and supply partners.

“They clearly dislike the backstop for very good and very sensible reasons,” Corbyn said. “Yes, you have an open border between Northern Ireland and the Republic, but in reality if you then transfer that border and a problem within the UK. So it is a problem.” 

He went on to suggest that he would bring forward a Brexit plan that could win the DUP’s support, namely one without a backstop. Labour’s position, as stated by Corbyn in a separate interview with Euronews tonight, is that its desire for a permanent customs union and high alignment with the single market would allow the backstop to be ditched from the withdrawal agreement (a position that’s either stupid or disingenuous, as it wouldn’t).

So a General Election would solve nothing, people will have no idea what they are voting as the two major parties have candidates who have vastly opposite views to any manifesto.

I have been reluctance to support a peoples vote , but see no other option.

The only question is whether its a simple Yes No vote or multiple option.

The forecast for next year is unclear  and you may get a more accurate prediction from this as any political pundit.

My forecast  we are completely and utterly screwed.