In today's SkyViews Lewis_Goodall argues that both sides of the Brexit debate have become so polarised that for Remainers 'nothing, not even a serious path to Remain, is good enough'
In response to Mr Corbyn's offer, leading Remainers like Anna Soubry have said that his commitment to a referendum after an election isn't satisfactory. Instead, they say, he must commit to a referendum before an election.
Moreover, this obliquity shields them from something even more obvious - that the numbers just aren't there to support the idea. Even if an alternative government could be formed, as soon as it attempted to bring forward legislation for another referendum scores of MPs, especially Labour MPs would fall away.
Again, like the most extreme Brexiteers, the strength of their internal workings out seem so powerfully self-evident that they fail to grasp how others might not agree and assume somehow that reality will bend to them, rather than having to work with others, to do things they might not like and work with people of whom they might not approve to get what they want.
And in this, Remainers are in fact outdoing Brexiteers in their zealotry. For there is an imperfect but substantial parallel for Mr Corbyn's position with Remainers on the other side of the ledger: Boris Johnson himself. Plenty of the most hardcore Brexiteers do not much trust Mr Johnson or his motivations.
The process of Brexit radicalisation which has yielded such a dogmatic zealotry on the Brexit side, which has seen some Brexiters go from acceptance of the single market right through to no-deal in barely more than a breath, has transformed the Remainers as well.That in any case they could politically box him in and bend him, the person who it paid most to bend, to their will.
Every time he moves, the anger is that he has not moved quicker- that he should declare Labour a Remain party, that he should move straight to Article 50 revocation, that he must pledge in advance to campaign to remain against a deal of his own negotiation, that he cannot be allowed to balance delicate politics because the signal and the noise is more important than his direction of travel, that he must become an evangelical.
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