I think you're pretty much spot-on there Steve.

The entire barrage of smears and distortions being directed at Labour in general, and JC in particular, is a carefully orchestrated campaign by the Tory media to turn the heads of feeble-minded, easily-influenced people - precisely the kind who read their rags - away from the real issues, and to convince them that this car-crash of a government, with its incompetence and internal civil war, is their only option in an election. For that reason, I'm pretty sure that, despite the unholy mess they have made of the past eight years, the Tories would get in again.

I think, like you, that another referendum would be a fruitless exercise. If it were to be run on the same basis as the previous one, I'm convinced it would be very close again, with possibly a small majority for Remain (although that's far from being a foregone conclusion) - certainly nothing like the landslide that would be needed in order to even begin to persuade the Brexiteers that they were wrong the first time. And that would cause more Trouble at t'Mill.

So I say, let them as got us up shit creek get us back down it again. It's always been Labour's lot, a millstone round the party-neck, that every time they come to power, they have Tory shit to clean up, and they become unpopular as a result of the stink that carrying out that cleansing causes.

Let the Tories wipe their own filthy arses.