Brexit is over?

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So last night a huge vote in the U.K parliament decided NOT to accept the Prime Minister's and E.Us deal to leave the European Union by 391 votes to 242. It was the same deal she pushed in January that she lost 432 to 202 . The majority has fallen from 230 votes to 150 votes and if there is another vote it may fall again by 40% by March 29th but unless they get the hard-line Brexiteers onside and the MPs blocking any exit reduced it could be delayed for a long time. Th people voted to go in JUNE 2016 but the MPs mostly voted to stay and so the people versus the state. Today the MPs vote to take No Deal off the table, the action of leaving the EU without a handshake and so our biggest negotiating tool gone. It would be general chaos for at least 6 months if we did leave on No Deal though. They will successfully vote to take that off the table tonight. That leaves a delay by extending Article 50 or a move towards a second referendum. If the EU 27 turn around and say you cant have an extension because you need a reason for one and we are done negotiating on the deal we could still leave on March 29th. But they dont want that chaos either so we should get at least 8 weeks to kick the can down the road. In that time a general election or a second referendum could happen and so a new direction with our relationship with the E.U. The sticking point remains the legal backstop, a mechanism put into the deal by both sides to 'pretend' there is a solution to the Irish border and so no hard barbed wire fence there needed. Its open ended and so hardliner leavers think its really a tool to keep us locked into Europe in perpetuity as only the EU can close it. The E.U have said trust us we dont want to use the mechanism and want you to leave fairly. The hardline 100 or so leavers are using that as an excuse to keep rejecting the deal and so the hardliner Remainers join in that conga line to make sure the deal falls and no Brexit option remains for them. The backstop is impossible because no side wants a border that is clearly going to have to go in at some point if we leave without a customs union. If the EU say no more and we leave then someone will have to put in the border fence to protect the integrity of the EU customs union, which Ireland wont allow because of the peace treaty in place to unite Ireland. The annoying thing is the government knew this would be the unfixable issue when they set the vote in 2016 and still went ahead.