Labour's official stance is at odds with both its membership and with Labour voters in general. The problem for Labour started when they acquiesced in Cameron's original call for a referendum. You could even argue that Gordon Brown made the party hostage to fortune by mooting a referendum when he was still in power, a point repeatedly made by Teribus. Once they'd made that grievous mistake they were obliged by political reality to accept the result and vote for Article 50. I'm not making excuses, but both major parties feel obliged to abide by political realities instead of being honest and acting in the real interests of this country, which would clearly be to abandon brexit immediately. I wonder how many Tory MPs still think, deep down, that Brexit is a great idea. We could decide to stay in the single market. Or, failing that agreement, things are going to look so bad in the next few months that there could be a volte-face by both parties. But who wants things to go to the brink like that? The only way that this fiasco won't crucify this country for generations to come is for the whole shambles to be abandoned right now.