The whole sorry mess is the result of the Tories trying to go it alone, instead of creating a cross-party 'Brexit Team'. Of course, they didn't want a cross-party team, because they might not have got their own way and achieved what they're really after, which is a crash-out 'Hard-Brexit' in order to enable the immensely-wealthy cadre who give the party its instructions to avoid EU anti-tax-avoidance regulations which come into effect in 2019.