To answer that it helps to understand what Brexit is and isn’t. What it started out as was a platform for a marginal party, the BNP, later (essentially) rebrand

To answer that it helps to understand what Brexit is and isn’t. What it started out as was a platform for a marginal party, the BNP, later (essentially) rebranded as UKIP of Nigel Farrage fame. The problem is that some Tories (Jacob Rees-Mogg and the rest of the European Research Group) along with UKIP were causing a lot of infighting within the Tory party. So in walks our bum-faced catastrophe of a “hero” named David Cameron, who decides to use a brilliant political power play to shut down both UKIP and the Tory euroskeptics. That plan was a referendum on leaving the UK, which was expected to crash and burn horribly, thus giving political cover to Cameron and friends who could say “stop whining, the people have spoken.” Then Cameron more or less sat on his thumbs while Rome burned, or in this case, Boris and Farrage ran around with torches (or a bus in Boris’ case.) As the US would learn shortly after, the power of shamelessly lying to pander to xenophobes is still very effective. In reaction Cameron and the remain crowd, confronted with people buying up ridiculous lies about vast savings and nonexistent trade deals, some dog whistles about Nazis... well the Remainers freaked out and tried to fight bullshit with bullshit. We know what happened next, and Cameron wasted no time resigning with a skip and a hum. Literally. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bprjHYY90lo https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bprjHYY90lo That left a power vacuum into which the insanely ambitious tore each other to sheds while Theresa May watched and stirred a cauldron of baby seals and rendered hummingbird fat. When the scrum ended, the only person who hadn’t burned every bridge necessary for their colleagues to support was... Theresa May, originally for Remain, but happy to pull a complete 180 for power. Now instead of Cameron bludgeoning UKIP and his own defectors with the “people’s will” it’s the Leavers who have that. Their position has finally evolved from lies and blandishments, to this one thing, “the people have spoken, even if they’re saying we need to slit our own throats.” Whoever tries to stop this will be ending their political career, and while history may appreciate their choice in the long the run, it would be a miserable retirement. As a result we have a hardcore fanatical group led by Rees-Mogg who want the hardest Brexit possible, you have Boris just chasing power and willing to say or do anything, and the opposition is Jeremy Corbin. Whatever you think of his positions, his political skills are amateurish, and besides, he’s actually a Leaver too! So... it’s a slow march off a cliff because the people in charge are too afraid to blink.