1/ In my heart I think Labour should abstain. The problem is then that there is a possibility that there may be enough Tory nutters to vote against their own party and thus cause us to crash out. The Tories own Brexit - the deal doesn't comply with Starmer's 6 points -

2/ but what does he do? He could give the PLP a free vote perhaps? Either way Lab are stuffed. Vote for and the Tories claim Lab support for Brexit - vote against - or abstain - and if there's no deal Lab get the blame again. It's rather like watching a slow train crash

3/ or being there when the bungling of Lord Grey with his secret deals with Paris took the world to war in 1914 (which ultimately of course led us to another war in 1939). Historians of the future will have a field day with Brexit - from the stupid like Francois & Bridgen to

4/ the genuine monsters like Rees Mogg, IDS, Davis, Johnson and the fool that started all this, David Cameron. In 2014 none but Little Englanders gave a fart about the EU - the "libertairians" weaponised it and conned the disadvantaged to get their Singapore in the N Sea.