Just when you thought Brexit couldn’t get any more preposterous, it manages to reach a level so farcical that many were left questioning reality itself.
With the process of leaving the European Union proving to more difficult than completing a Rubik’s Cube while wearing boxing gloves, Theresa May attempted to break the deadlock on Wednesday by announcing she would quit as Prime Minister once Brexit was done.
It seemed to set in motion a series of events that straddled the worlds of tragedy and comedy.
Not one to shun the limelight in a time of crisis, Boris Johnson, who only the day before had used his Daily Telegraph column on Brexit to compare himself to Moses, was first to take the stage.
Despite previously likening May’s deal to - among other things - a turd and a suicide vest, he announced he’d had a change of heart and would vote for it after all. Ambition can do strange things.
Not everyone was “doing a Boris”, however.
Steve Baker, a key figure in the influential European Research Group of backbench Tory Brexiteers, tore into the PM in a behind-closed-doors meeting with fellow Leave ultras.
In a rallying address to the group, he branded May’s departure speech a “pantomime”, adding: “I could tear this place down and bulldoze it into the river.
“These fools and knaves and cowards are voting on things they don’t even understand.
“We’ve been put in this place by people whose addiction to power without responsibility has led them to put the choice of no Brexit or this deal.”
More Eurosceptics were coming round to the idea of the deal being agreeable without its architect around, when another bombshell landed.
The Northern Irish DUP said it will not support the government if it tables a fresh meaningful Brexit vote because “the necessary changes we seek to the backstop have not been secured”.
Wait, so would May have to stay on if her deal is torpedoed?
But we weren’t done for the day ...
With the hand of history on their shoulders, backbench MPs took control of the Brexit agenda from the government ... and promptly rejected all eight proposals put forward for “indicative” votes as ways out of the mess.