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I think on the level of Parliamentary manoeuvres Labour's line on Brexit has broadly been sound or at worst the least bad of a bad set of choices.
But there's been a total failure of communication & conceptualisation with regard to what's external to Parliament, instead that communication has mostly been explaining the strategy from a parliamentarian point of view.
Neglect of the necessary communication is linked to a basically national-technocratic & personalised framing: May's bad deal. The question that's barely posed: bad for who?
This deal is a form of class war, on FoM, on emphasising retaining state aid rules (etc) while not being able to challenge because outside the EU, but it's barely been explained like that, so never in a way that links to real needs & experiences to people outside Parliament.
It's not failings in the Parliamentary/policy position that mean Labour is doing badly in the polls, in the complete focus on them and their terms, which was always going to result in a) boredom & demoralisation, b) seeming incoherence.
