EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

The temperature of the country is that it's massively divided. The fault line runs right down the middle of the likely Labour vote.

It's natural both sides are pissed off because Labour didn't pick their side. But it's also understandable to try to pitch yourself as the party that thinks there are bigger issues than Brexit, and that will want to try to continue to get votes from both sides.

Their strategy was never really going to work in this election. But in an election that is not on a single issue, which is Labour's aim, it might not be the wrong strategy.

Does it matter if he’s right and the country is too polarised to see sense?

Honestly, only a GE with parties stating their strategy for Brexit will sort this mess out.

Any referendum alienates vast swathes is the population because the options;
No Deal,
Europe’s Deal,
Remain
... this splits the leave votes and would be a shoe-in for Remain.

Personally I have no problem with that result... but it’s not ‘fair’. Referendums have unforeseen consequences but this one would cement a hard-right, anti-europe movement as political force in British politics for decades.