The votes to take no deal off the table and extend Article 50 are likely to be meaningless. I listened to the EU Parliament debate this morning. There is little mood to consider an extension. Socialist/liberal types argue we don't know what we want, so there's no point. Conservative/Eurosceptics argue that the EU doesn't have the right to lock a sovereign state in the EU when we have voted to leave. None of them want a whole load more Uncle Nigels elected if we have to take part in EU elections in May.

No deal is now the likeliest outcome, though not certain.