Not as lovely an irony, of course, as the distinct possibility - now that they have, as predicted, kiboshed it - of the anti-Brexit protest vote that destroyed May's majority potentially leading to a harder Brexit than would otherwise have been the case.
The last two years of politics in this country really are an object lesson for everyone in the dangers of unintended consequences.
Allowing the people to vote on an issue which even the politicians in charge, or those whose idea it was, failed to fully understand the consequences of was never really a great idea.
Then again allowing the people to make that call was not May’s call.
The spineless chap who started it all has kind of slid off I note.