The answer is Yes. But not beyond repair. The Tory and Labour front benches now have to give up party politics and stem the rising waters of an emergency engulfing the very stability of the United Kingdom. Neither leads a united party. May leads little more than half a party, and only for the moment. Ahead is a big challenge entangled in too many words, idiotic dogma, wishful thinking and emotion run amok.
But what is needed in outcome is stark in its simplicity. Either a workable exit from the EU in an orderly and constructive way, perhaps confirmed in a People’s Vote, or the scrapping of the whole project by revoking Article 50.
Simple. Now do it.