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Newsnight and all the newspaper review shows on Sky and BBC this evening largely discredited the LibDem surge as a protest vote, focusing a lot on how Brexit voters didn't have a "real Brexit" option to vote on while ignoring the message of a massive surge to pro-Remain parties.
This plays right alongside the "plague on both their houses" narrative, and of course the notion that the local election result meant "get on with Brexit". The best antidote: a crushing turnout for Remain (by the usual apathetic European election standards) on 23 May!
That's of course if May and Corbyn don't stitch up a Brexit deal before then, figuring that the fallout from Brexit is the lesser of two evils when the alternative is both their parties being ripped apart by conflicting Brexit stances within their own ranks.
Because that's the dangerous calculation: in a situation in which there are literally no good outcomes, from their POV, which particular bad outcome will TM & JC plump for?
