Say for a second that May loses the no-confidence vote before week’s end and/or wins but resigns anyway. Whoever steps up next is pretty much fucked from the get-go because the deal on the table will now be too politically toxic to touch, there’s no real time on the clock left because the EU’s unlikely to agree to “start over,” and that just leaves backing out of Brexit altogether as the “best” option.

It’s no wonder Cameron got out when he did. The party submitted a vote to the people on which poison it liked better and the people decided hemlock tasted better than cyanide.