They've nearly got you out the door, why would they ask you to stay if all you're going to do is piss about for another three months and waste everyone's time?
Theresa May has been playing stupid games for the last two years, they don't want any more of it.
And this is where crap journalism comes into it. Crap journalism always comes into it.
It would equally be public knowledge that she has failed. That Europe will not provide a new treaty.
Three months or three years, Europe will never accept a treaty renegotiation within the exit process.
But they know she's doing it. That's why they've said there has to be a definite purpose to an extension.
If they ever, even once, bothered to interrogate Theresa May's intentions, the whole pantomime would collapse because the whole thing is make belief.
The easiest fuckin gig the media ever had.