Extend??? MP's voted for article 50 two years ago they knew what was going to happen on March 29 and they voted for it, some of the baffoons in parliament seem to forget this.A good commentary from last night.
A lot of MPs looked exhausted & emotionally wrung out tonight. They're making hellishly difficult choices under a hail of emotional & physical abuse, while the doomsday clock ticks down to midnight. No one thinks clearly in these conditions. For all our sakes, we need a time out.
We are trying to cram into three days a debate that should have begun three years ago: exploring what the options might be, what trade-offs they involve and whether they command a majority. It hardly matters any longer who's to blame: this is an insane way to decide our future.
No one *wants* another year of this, but it's more important to do this well than to do it quickly. So let's extend for a year & use the summer - & the EP elections - for a serious ventilation of the options. Citizens Assemblies, town-hall meetings, seminars for MPs - the lot.
Let's do what we should have done in the first place & open up a serious public debate, which accepts that we're choosing from imperfect alternatives - all of which (including Remain) come with costs & trade-offs. Then let's try again, refreshed & better informed, in the Autumn.
The last thing we want, the EU wants or any other country is for this farce to go on, let's leave on 12 April and as a woman from Stockton On Tees said on CNN last night we take the hit but we are British and we get back up and rebuild ourselves, it's what Britain does.