I think someone said earlier that the choices now are May's deal, no deal or withdraw article 50. I would agree with that. There is no time to negotiate another option. Given that that is true, and I would be happy to be corrected if it is not, then how would parliament go about voting for one of them? Votes have always been binary so will they just use the Noel Edmonds option of deal or no deal, ignoring the elephant in the room of staying put? Or will they do, as I and others have suggested, and try to stay in while saving face?

I think it would be provident to stay put and sell that to the country as a temporary measure until the complex issues are sorted out. The reasoning being that once we leave, that's it but if we stay we can always invoke A50 at a later stage. If that involves another referendum in, say, 2 years then so be it. I disagree with referendums but if it gets us out of the mess we are in, so be it.

Chris Evans on the radio, not noted for deep political analysis but bear with me, said something interesting the other day. It is not so much brexit that is the issue now but that brexit had broken the existing political system. I think he could be right! Maybe David Cameron did do us a favour after all. The system is deeply flawed if one administration can ruin the country for generations to come. Maybe, just maybe, something better will arise from the ashes of May's crash and burn.

Yes, I know, pigs may fly too. I am a glass half full person :-)