[ritchiebaby]

"How is it possible to ignore the peoples vote AND trigger article 50 ?"

It's easy, Jim, and it's all to do with timing.
1. In June 2016 voters in the Referendum voted to leave the EU (it was mandatory for the Government to carry out the decision.)
2. In March 2017 Article 50 was triggered.
3. In June 2018 Parliament passed the Withdrawal Act.
All hunky-dory so far, then
4. Draft Withdrawal Deal was put forward to the Commons in November 2018 by Mrs May.
5. Since then every positive step to move things along has been thwarted and we've ended up with the current shambles.

I'm not into the blame game towards individuals and their parties, but it is very clear to me that Parliament is doing everything it can to firstly delay our exit, followed by an obvious intention to eventually stay in the EU.