Toynbee agitates on street corners

I do worry about P Toynbee.I like her and admire her work,but she has lost it badly with Brexit and might be risking her health:

Extreme [mental?] agitation grows [for P Toynbee and her dinner companions] , anticipating the exit poll results, seconds after 10pm on election night. 

Doom awaits:

What is all too possible is a blue wave sweeping all before it to wipe out all that tactical nuancing of each seat [trashes the Gruan efforts]. In that instant our Brexit doom will be sealed and Boris Johnson will be off the leash – with the BBC, NHS, and safety, food and work regulations all in peril...we will be out of the European convention on human rights, and he will be free to do anything that takes his populist fancy (alone with Belarus, [why Belarus?] no place for minorities or journalists). Whether throwing away keys, reintroducing capital punishment, banishing foreigners, stamping on “scroungers’’ or cracking down on Gypsies and Travellers, now that he’s replaced Tory liberal lawyers with cohorts of Priti Patel, he will be able to use any means to bind his ex-Labour Brexit seats to Torydom.

What a weird paragraph. Johnson is emulating Belarus to win over Labour Brexiteers? 

That’s the nightmare: Britain joining the rightwing authoritarians to break Europe’s civilised democratic values.  

So do we retire to our agreeable homes on the Algarve or re-equip the garage for survival? No -- just hope for the best:

The only balm is a parliament of compromise [!] that blends progressive manifestos and sends the Brexit decision back to the voters.

This will be democratic after all:

a majority will not have voted for Johnson. An even bigger majority will not have voted for Jeremy Corbyn. Call it what they like – a confidence and supply agreement, a vote by vote pact – but Labour, the Liberal Democrats, the Scottish National party, Greens and Plaid Cymru together have the makings of a very good government.

So add 7 minorities together and get the will of the (nice reasonable) people?  It's not terribly encouraging on the street corner:

I was listening in Wakefield, which voted 66% in favour of Brexit, making it one of the weak bricks in Labour’s so-called red wall. Mary Creagh defends a 2,176-vote majority. If she falls, she leaves 14 years of landmarks: she fought for a new performing arts Brit school of the north, flood defences saving the city so far, a new hospital and more. She would be a loss to the green cause...

An obvious choice for the people then.

But there’s a “Fuck off!” from a man in paint-splashed overalls [a Faragist] ....Inside, [another voter says] brusquely: “I was Labour, but no more. I’m for Farage, got his feet on the ground. We voted out, so it’s out!”...one mum outside the school gates stomps past, hissing, “I’m voting Corbyn, not for you, Blairite!”, a sign of another upcoming battle....[A woman]...voted leave but regrets it now. “Changed my mind, I never expected disruption,” she says....her husband...says, “I’m uncertain. I’m Brexit and Boris says he’ll get us out...another leave regretter... [says] I worry what Brexit will do for our children and I want to vote again.

Out of all that, the thwack of firm government forcing a non-consensual [!]  Brexit, with only minority support [!], would break politics as we know it. Roll on a progressive concordance of the reasonable

In some other form now politics is broken? In the Head Offices of the Guardian?