The UK is not governed by a system of 'Popular Democracy', where the citizens make the judgments and decisions necessary to run the country. We periodically elect Members of Parliament, whose (very well-paid) job is to make the important decisions of policy and law on behalf of all of the citizens of the UK. It's called 'Representative Democracy' and it's the system we have relied upon for several hundred years.

It's our parliamentary representatives who should be making these decisions, based on the information which they receive as part of their position as representatives of the people, and which the ordinary people do not. It's what they exist, and receive their generous remuneration, for.

The utter chaotic donkey's breakfast we currently find the country and parliament paralysed by is the result of the abandonment, albeit for one poll only, of our system of Representative Democracy, and handing responsibility for the most important decision since the end of WW2 to the electorate, with campaigns run on the basis of lies and mis-information.

There should be NO SECOND (or third, depending on how you look at it) REFERENDUM. Our MPs are elected and paid to make The Big Decisions on our behalf, and that's how this whole catastrophe should have been run right from the start. Let Parliament decide which of the three options they prefer:-

1) The No-Deal Hard Brexit
2) Brexit according to May's watered-down 'Deal'.
3) Remain in the EU, preferably on the terms that we had prior to the Referendum.