[Cronos]

why is it her fault that the intransigent Parliament won’t pass it? What should she be doing differently? A very good question, or rather three questions:

1. Why is Parliament not passing it? - there are three groups in parliament who are rejecting it
   1. Hard Brexiters who believe that There should be a No-deal Brexit
   2. Remainers who don't want to leave
   3. Labour who want to cause chaos so the Tories disintegrate
2. Why is Parliament not passing it?
   1. The Hard BRexiters believeD that it would make a no-deal the only option
   2. The remainers believed that it would make remain the only option
   3. Labour believed it would shame May into quitting
3. Why is it Theresa May's fault? - because she took the job in 2016 and did nothing, did not plan for what to do with Ireland. She didn't have a defined idea of what Brexit would be and she still doesn't. She defined red lines that were impossible to meet
   
   and she called for an unnecessary election that bound her hands even tighter. Even now she takes no counsel from anyone and just seeks to delay, hoping brinkmanship will win
   
   So, to sum up
   • Appointed David Davis as Brexit Secretary (13th July 2016). Kept him in that position even when it was clear that he was doing nothing and achieving nothing. He resigned - not fired, resigned - in July 2018.
   • Triggered Article 50 (March 29th 2017). There was (and is) no ‘roadmap’ to leaving at the time she (and she alone) did this. Triggering Article 50 sets a two-year fixed time period for arranging an orderly withdrawal.
   • Called an unecessary election (June 2017) partway through the two-year Article 50 process, diverting time and effort from all parties into the campaign. Manages to lose 13 Conservative seats and cannot form a Government.
   • Decides to solve this problem by allying with the 10 MPs of the DUP,Gets them onboard by somehow finding 1.5 billion pounds going spare in the public finances. At a time when the country is undergoing huge and sustained cuts in public spending.(think political bribery)
   • Sets up a bunch of ‘red lines’ in her negotiating position with the EU. The result of these is to exclude certain solutions such as continued membership of the Single Market and Customs Union (e.g. the ‘Norway’ option and various other forms of ‘soft’ Brexit), and to put any possible solution that would fit within the red lines in conflict with the Good Friday Agreement, an international and legally-binding treaty which the UK is signatory to. Refuses to modify the red lines to accomodate this (for example by keeping Northern Ireland in the Single Market), almost certainly because she has to rely on the DUP to stay in power.
   • She then spent two years allowing negotiations to be conducted without involving parliament and indeed having to be forced to give them sight of some documents through court action.
   • Finalises an agreement with the EU (25th Nov 2018). This needs to pass the UK parliament. The vote is scheduled for 11th Dec 2018.
   • Is defeated in three preliminary votes on 4th Dec, including being held in Contempt of Parliament.
   • Announces on 10th Dec 2018 that the vote scheduled for 11th Dec is postponed. Admits that it’s because she would lose the vote. This is rescheduled for 15th January 2019.
   • Vote is put to Parliament on 15th Jan 2019. May loses by the largest margin ever (230 votes). She very narrowly survives a confidence vote held directly after this.
   • Another vote is scheduled for 14th Feb. She loses this one as well.
   • Reschedules another vote for the 27th of Feb. Then postpones it to the 12th of March. Loses this AGAIN

she has made a bad situation almost infinitely worse, as a direct result of her own actions or inactions.

[Impy]

Thank you for the thorough reply.