The key question - the hard question - is the one @jemgilbert has asked elsewhere: why were Labour likely to lose in December, regardless of its position on Brexit?
You can argue that we could have held onto the 2017 position with some tweaks. But it's a wild leap to claim that that was a winning proposition by last December. It wasn't even persuasive to many members of the Party by then.
Labour's problems run much deeper than the Brexit issue. It still seeks to be the sole competitor with the Conservatives in a FPTP system when electoral geography almost guarantees that they will remain as junior partners in such a system.
(Even adopting a coalitional approach around constitutional reform isn't a winning proposition if the Party doesn't develop communicative assets that are a match for the right's propaganda machine, itself a coalition between 'respectable mainstream media' and the far-right ...
... Brexit was shaped as a wedge issue by an overwhelmingly pro-Conservative, anti-socialist comms regime. In 2015 people voted for the Conservatives because they feared that Miliband would be a puppet of Alex Salmond. There is no end to what the fantasy factory can produce.)
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