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1/ Here's a multi-part prediction.
2/ We'll take part in the European parliamentary elections on 23rd May but turnout will only be a bit higher than usual.
3/ As we go into them, Labour will still be equivocating. The unequivocally pro-remain parties still won't have found a way to cooperate. Farage will still be lying. And the Tories will still be at war with each other.
4/ Farage will do depressingly well, meaning we'll be represented by a load of poisonous MEPs for the full term of this parliament or until we leave, whichever comes sooner, but the vote share for unequivocally pro-Brexit parties (Farage/Ukip/Cons) will still be <50%.
5/ So no one will agree on what the result means vis-à-vis the UK's appetite for continued membership.
6/ Meanwhile, Parliament will have got no further in finding a deal that a majority of MPs are prepared to vote for. (For the record, I'd advocate pushing for a softer Brexit, including FoM, and simultaneously pushing for a confirmatory vote on it, so I'm not opposed to a deal.)
7/ This will continue for months.
8/ And probably a couple more months.
9/ And, before we know it, we'll be a few weeks away from 31st October.
10/ At some point, opinion polls - which are currently split at about 58 to 42 in favour of remain - will tip over the 60% remain mark. But this will come with no fanfare because it will have happened so gradually.
11/ Eventually, to get past the impasse, some sort of referendum will be agreed on, and this will take place at some point in the spring or summer of 2020, our having secured another extension.
12/ This will be horrible: boring, deeply divisive, still dogged by dishonesty and underhandedness. But it will still minimise the damage by most measures, even if Leave wins again.
13/ Going into that referendum, Labour's position still won't be 100% clear.
14/ But Remain will win, and by a slightly larger margin than Leave won in 2016, but on a similar turnout.
15/ This will, for a while at least, be the end of it. No one in Westminster will want to formally restart the process.
16/ But dozens of ERG diehards will loudly grumble from the sidelines about betrayal, and we'll be lumbered with our most Eurosceptic collection of MEPs ever until 2024; so much for "remain and reform".
17/ Even though there will have been a referendum with a binary outcome, the ascent to sanity won't feel like a point-in-time event; it'll feel like finally getting our heads above water, having been continually pushed under for four years - five if you count it from the 2015 GE.
18/ So most us will breathe a big collective sigh of relief but it will be an anticlimax. It will be like having enough oxygen but, after years of trying, not getting that enormous yawn your body so craved.
19/ And we'll be a diminished force in Europe and in the world for at least a decade - though much less diminished than if we'd left.
20/ But at least we'll be able to fight the real causes of why we got into this mess in the first place, as well as the Big Problem, for which membership of the EU is necessary but insufficient: climate change.
21/ Will we have squeezed in a general election too and will the leaders of either of the main parties have changed? Those are the only two things I'm not willing to speculate on.
22/ TL;DR: we'll probably remain but remainers won't feel the elation that would usually come with this sort of recovery... not that outward elation will be useful if we're to have any hope of building bridges between leavers and remainers. /Ends
PS Any dissenting views?
