I will never understand, especially after the passage of those articles, why in Hades the UK didn’t leave a vapour trail Brexiting.
Well, look at Ireland and their protestations of “independence” vis-à-vis the United Kingdom, but yet they are mostly subservient to the EU and its draconian social and economic rules, even where they gleefully vote for stuff like homosexual marriage and abortion against their (presumed) long-standing national character. Too many still want to believe the big lie, until it affects them to the point where their lives depend on it.
As for the UK itself, Theresa May was a Remainer, as was David Cameron who promised the referendum on voting to leave the UK in the first place (I hate that EU-conceived term “Brexit”). May was put in there to ensure the UK was in as weak of a position as possible. Instead of going with Article 50 (so many parts of the EU treaties are a disaster, so why trust this part?), the proper route should have been invoking “clausula rebus sic stantibus” due to not only the nature of the EU treaties but the actions of the EU government with respect to them.