Can Brexit be stopped? Not by a second referendum | Polly Toynbee

The risks pile up, but Brexiteers don’t care. Never-ending limbo could be the least terrible outcomeConfirmation bias is everywhere. You are what you read – and you read stories that confirm who you think you are. So Guardian types find their eyes, desperate with hope, drawn to the crescendo of signals that Brexit can’t and won’t happen, to stories that say the sheer impossibility of leaving the EU gets clearer by the day: no way can Britain be out in March 2019, that&rsq