Mrs May has laid out what she wants from Brexit. She has demanded that the agreement with the EU meets five requirements - respecting the referendum; protect jobs and security; be consistent with our values; not weaken Britain's ties; and be durable.
All sensible goals, but it is hard to see how to satisfy all them strictly.
Leaving 'just a little bit' would make things comparatively easy, if the Brextremists would face reality. A faint hope.
A hard Brexit would certainly be durable, but even the Brexit believers agree that jobs will be lost, and let's not get started about the Irish border.
Mrs May also said, "I want the broadest and deepest possible agreement - covering more sectors and co-operating more fully than any Free Trade Agreement anywhere in the world today."
She then contradicted herself by dropping her offer of a "binding commitment" to follow EU rules. The Brextremists watered it down to making "strong commitments".
So the believers in 'cake' are still calling the tune, leading Mrs May to a Brexit that can never satisfy her stated requirements.
Mrs May is a little dog being pulled along on her lead, straining against it but unable to resist. When asked recently if leaving the EU would be worth it for the UK her answer was: "the British people voted for Brexit".
She knows we will be worse off economically, she knows that any new deal would be worse than our current one, she knows that we will have to keep paying into the EU but will have no influence.
Even our shiny new blue passports are going to be printed in France.
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