IF you are still tuned in to the ongoing Brexit shenanigans at Westminster, then you'll be aware I write this column in the knowledge that things could dramatically change, and probably will, before the paper makes it into print.
What won't change is the complete ineptitude of the current crop of Westminster politicians.
That MPs rejected another four options this week matters not. The indicative votes are not legally binding anyway - all they really do is emphasise how little consensus there is.
It comes to something when a group of semi-naked eco warriors holding a protest in the public gallery of Westminster wasn't the strangest or most noteworthy thing to happen.
Ian Paisley impersonating Ian Paisley at a pro-Brexit rally in London at the weekend with the addition of two loyalist flute bands from Scotland was quite the event.
It followed on from the rejection last week of eight possible options placed on the table being rejected by MPs one after another, with no regard for the people they serve.
Again it matters not - they know that, we know that.
Afraid to completely reject a Brexit they know will be economically disastrous, afraid to back a softer option in case there's a snap election and they are punished at the polls by their constituents.
And so, the booming sound of speaker John Bercow, stating time and time again that "the Nooooooes have it" haunts my dreams.
The crowd of protesters outside Westminster grows daily, it used to be one man and his flag, now it's a cross section of society shouting to be heard by those inside the historic and crumbling old building - good luck with that.
It's worth reminding ourselves again that Brexit was always about internal Tory party politics.
David Cameron, who called the referendum and then legged it when the leave result was announced should feel a heavy weight of responsibility for the mess he's created. He should, but I very much doubt that he does.
In reality the British government wanted a remain vote, but one close enough that they could go back to Brussels and negotiate better conditions within the EU.
As it turns out the EU are now under no pressure to throw Theresa May any more scraps from the table, and why would they.
The confidence and supply deal with the DUP has made local politics even more toxic than it was before.
It also greatly reduced the chances of the assembly coming back anytime soon.
Meanwhile, the victims of historic child abuse once again try and get the redress they are owed by taking the Secretary of State to court to force her to act in the absence of an executive.
That she hasn't before now should shame the British government, neglecting the most vulnerable of people, many in their dying days.
Back in London and the DUP will always put their vision of the future of the union before all other considerations.
And to be fair to them they have stuck to this through these protracted and unproductive Brexit negotiations.
They have used their influence to basically sabotage an orderly Brexit, and were until the last week, backed up - and in fact encouraged to persist - by the hard line Brexiteers of the ERG.
That Jacob Rees-Mogg and many of his merry band of Eurosceptics sided with the prime minister and her Withdrawal Agreement on its third outing must have stung the DUP.
Political ambition trumps loyalty every time. Their minds focused by the promise of a future job opening, having secured a pledge by Theresa May that she will step aside and allow someone else to lead the next phase of negotiations.
The potential for political power supersedes all else.
Given how disloyal the DUP have been to the prime minister they shouldn't have been surprised when she announced this week that she had finally given up on trying to convince them to back her and was crossing the chamber to negotiate with Jeremy Corbyn.
That was hardly the preferred outcome at the start of this shambolic period of parliament.
The rather catty statement from the DUP on Mrs May "sub-contracting out the future of Brexit" to Corbyn, a sign that all has not gone their way.
Whatever the future holds, and given the fluidity of the situation there's few people brave enough to put their money on any of the possible outcomes, but history will not be kind to the current crop of Westminster politicians.
They have lacked bravery, they have pandered to the extremes and they have failed, not just once, but time and time again.
