(telegraph paywall) If Theresa May dilutes Brexit to please Labour, get set for another huge Tory civil war over Europe
< daft title because it's not Labour she's trying to please ; however he's a Tory Brexiter in panic mode >
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/13/theresa-may-dilutes-brexit-please-labour-may-spark-biggest-tory/
It would be difficult to imagine a more disastrous start to Britain’s negotiations to leave the European Union.
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Today’s Telegraph splash will have sent a shiver down the spines of those Conservative MPs whose primary obsession in politics has been to extricate us from the EU 
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An ungodly alliance of pro-Remain Conservative MPs
– including Cabinet ministers –
and Labour MPs seek to water down Mrs May’s previous commitments to a hard Brexit,
and to despatch her seemingly reckless (though as I have argued in the past, entirely sensible and necessary) 
< twat > threat to walk away from the negotiating table rather than accept a “bad deal”.
Labour, on the other hand, is more united than it has been at any time since Jeremy Corbyn became leader
and now has a ringside seat for the Great Conservative EU Implosion, part 22.
It is casually and confidently asserted that the recent election produced a House of Commons in which a majority of members oppose our leaving the EU altogether.**
This is probably true.
However a slight complicating factor is that both the Conservative and Labour manifestos commit any government led by them to leave, not just the EU, but the single market too.
It is, admittedly, less explicit in Labour’s
And while polls have consistently shown that those who want us to defy the referendum result and remain as EU members are now a fairly small proportion of the electorate,
how much of this shift was caused by the Prime Minister’s seeming unshakeable commitment to Brexit and the decisive votes in Parliament in favour of Article 50?
If the parliamentary arithmetic were to change, perhaps voters’ attitudes would follow.
This is the kind of scenario that keeps hard core Brexiteers awake at night, clutching their Union Jack pillows.
After a year of confident sailing towards their desired destination, their captain has been fatally weakened and the crew is poised to mutiny < shivering a timber near you, Theresa >
It is in Labour’s partisan interests to snatch the Leavers’ victory for from the jaws of victory.
To ensure a so-called “soft” Brexit
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would not only enrage Tory Eurosceptics
but would almost certainly see a revival in the fortunes of the UK Independence Party (Ukip), whose threat to the Conservatives’ electoral base triggered the EU referendum in the first place.
Corbyn, who has long opposed the EU and was careful to ensure his true feelings emerged during the referendum campaign, would be disappointed by Britain transitioning to a relationship where Britain was forced to abide by single market rules over which it had no say.
But the flip side of that particular coin will be enough to satisfy him:
if “Brexit means Brexit” is transformed, via a cross-party alliance, into “Brexit means not very much change at all”,
then the ensuing Conservative civil war will not only provide top entertainment,
but would almost certainly make Jeremy Corbyn Prime Minister within two years.