A Government that has negotiated one of the worst treaties in history, and which has failed miserably on three occasions to get it through Parliament.

A Prime Minister who has promised to resign if her deal is successful, but who stays put now her deal has once again failed (let me know if you can think of a more ludicrous scenario).

A speaker who is having to be arm-twisted into allowing "Meaningless votes" since he won't allow a "Meaningful vote" on the same deal as before (to be fair to him, I think he was quite right to insist that the Government cannot keep bringing the same deal back to the Commons over and over again until it gets the "right" answer, since this creates a dangerous constitutional precedent).

Parliamentarians whose instincts are still overwhelmingly Remain, but who dare not vote to Revoke Article 50 or for a "People's Vote" lest their pesky constituents turf them out at the next election (note on the People's Vote: I understand that it was People who voted last time) .

And a series of indicative votes, none of which were even recognised by the Government as having legitimacy, and none of which was able to command a majority in the House.