UPDATE: Brexit vote: British Parliament rejects Theresa May's Brexit deal

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12. brexit can't ever work because it was "built on a lie"

Putin gave us "mexico will pay for the wall" and he gave the UK "you'll be better without the EU"

https://www.vox.com/world/2019/1/15/18184172/brexit-vote-what-happens-next-theresa-may?utm_campaign=vox&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

UK Prime Minister Theresa May spent months negotiating a deal with the European Union on the terms of Brexit, Britain’s exit from the EU.

On Tuesday, the UK Parliament voted to reject the deal by a resounding 432-202 margin — the largest legislative defeat any prime minister has suffered in modern British history.

May’s defeat should dispel any illusion that there is a happy ending to the Brexit story. The truth of the matter is that the project that defined May’s premiership — negotiating a Brexit deal acceptable to both the EU and pro-Brexit legislators in her Conservative Party — was structurally impossible. The terms on which Conservative Brexiteers wanted to leave the EU were not acceptable to EU negotiators, and the compromises necessary to bring EU negotiators on board were not acceptable to Conservative Brexiteers. No amount of negotiating could address this dilemma.
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May’s tenure in office — which appears likely to continue for some time, despite the Brexit deal’s devastating defeat — was premised on the lie that she could work out a Brexit deal palatable to all sides.