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Sad to see Matthew Parris become the latest in too long a line of remainers to trash anything between EU membership and no-deal as "vassalage" and argue healing will only come after one side - presumably his own - has won 
There's no such thing as a perfect international relationship, particularly if you have a large economic bloc on your neighbourhood. No deal means real economic costs. Being part of it means shared institutions you might not like. A halfway house has flaws.
Hardly representative but I've had plenty of discussions with remainers and leavers on here who will admit they could live with a compromise that is actually available, typically but not always EEA. Not ideal, but scarcely vassalage of a nation.
And we come back as ever to stability and consensus - it will suit no-dealers and supporters of EU membership to make the rest of us collateral damage for an interminable battle, and maybe even to sway between these poles. Popular frustration suggests it doesn't suit a majority.
Compromise is rather less glamorous than populism, and we're in an age of populism. But populism also leads to misplaced hopes, like we can sort Brexit once and for all with a no-deal, or whatever it is. It might be tough but we have to do better than that /end
