Tory wreckers (deliberately?) threaten what is only common sense

Common sense to the Guardian/Observer means compromise talks with Labour to get a nice moderate cross party deal through. However, J Hunt has identified a slight snag:

[Hunt] “very much hoped” the talks would not end in a deal proposing a customs union....“I think there is a risk you would lose more Conservatives than you gain Labour MPs,” the foreign secretary said.

the triggers for most constituency chairs to sign the petition [for a vote on May's leadership]  had been the “humiliation” of holding European elections and May’s decision to enter talks with the Labour leader to find a Brexit compromise.

No doubt Guradinistas could then add to their betrayal myth a section on how constituencies in the Tory Parliamentary party also planned a fascist takeover all along? 

Meanwhile,P Toynbee offers hope to Labour Remainers:

Labour needn’t worry: in its northern heartlands, Brexiters are not the only voices 

Polly encountered one Brexiteer - inevitably an ' old man, as he harrumphed off up Kirkgate on his mobility scooter', but she also met others including some switchers:

Fed-upness with all politics, indignation at Westminster chaos, resentment at three wasted years of empty argy-bargy. A few people said they wouldn’t vote again in another referendum, they were just too disillusioned. “Bring back Guy Fawkes!” one man joked. Plenty of well-justified grudge; but there were plenty of switchers too. Resentful, not ode-to-joy converts, but weary givers-in to the realities, trade-offs and hard choices that were never revealed during the referendum.

She seems pleased with this weary resignation and passive acceptance. 

Toynbee knows 'You can cherrypick your vox pops to suit,' but insists:

this isn’t just wishful thinking from remainers. YouGov this month polled 5,000 Labour heartland voters in the north-east, north-west, Midlands, Yorkshire and Humberside. Did these Labour voters back “a new public vote on whether Britain should leave on the deal negotiated or stay in the EU”? Three-quarters supported the idea, and 43% said that if Labour backed a vote they would feel greater affinity for the party. Only 8% said it would make them feel less keen on Labour; only 11% backed Theresa May’s Brexit deal. Labour never was the party of Brexit and it’s become even less so now. Don’t mythologise “northern working-class Labour man” when Brexit is overwhelmingly a Tory disease.

Nigel Farage says his Brexit party will be rampaging through Labour’s northern heartlands, but he may find less of a welcome from Labour’s voters than he reckons. His damp squib of a Jarrow march might be a warning...

The point is to brace up the Remainers tussling over the wording of Labour's manifesto, the issue that W Hutton described as 'civilisational' last Sunday:

Labour’s national executive committee today draws up its manifesto for the European elections: it’s a watershed moment, a make-or-break springboard or rack on which Labour will be judged for years to come. Members and voters need to hear an unequivocal, resounding pledge that any Brexit deal will be put to a confirmatory vote. Some will pretend the risk to northern seats means they must go on “respecting” a three-year-old vote, despite all polls for over a year showing a sizeable swing to remain, which is at least eight percentage points ahead now.

Then, puzzlingly,and seemingly contradicting the poll findings, Toynbee also  notes that:

Labour and Farage’s Brexit party are level pegging in the European election polls – a shocking fact that should send a thousand volts through the NEC.  

And, to no-one's surprise by now,  she turns nasty, urges polarisation and fights to the death in the usual distancing way:

Only Labour can beat off this wave of nationalist, anti-migrant, exploitative poison dragging the country rightwards. This will be a black-and-white confrontation between all Labour stands for and all Farage threatens. There is no leeway here for one foot in and one foot out of the Brexit camp....This fight against the Brexiteers is an existential struggle for the left’s core beliefs, for the spirit of internationalism, for cooperation on the climate crisis [work that in if you can], for binding democrats together against a hostile world, welcoming diversity and difference. On the other side beckons a nasty little-England dictatorship – the wild free-market world of Farage allies Steve Bannon and Donald Trump. Labour needs to step back from petty calculation and defunct anti-EU ideology to focus on the politics.