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EU was always going to swing hard against People's Vote once deal was done. This is as expected.
It'll be seized on by opponents of another referendum as proof it is dead. And it's true that chances for it look shit right now given Labour leader's refusal to back it.
But let's be clear: the chances for anything look shit. Hard to see any deal getting through Commons which is acceptable to EU. Hard to see how MPs would ever fail to stop no-deal once it was about to happen.
Nothing seems viable. And while that situation pertains, nothing is impossible.
The thing to do now is to secure a extension of Article 50, which'll probably need to be for three months to get Commons support.
Then the battle is for UK participation in the May European parliamentary elections. This must happen. If we don't, then there is almost certainly no chance to extend Article 50 past July.
Things are bleak. This is a desperate rearguard defence against national hara-kiri. But then, that' what it has always been. Nothing has, er, changed.
