In a nutshell, Mr Halfon, your article comes across to me as "My party, right or left!" - and THAT is why your party is not just widely despised by the electorate at large, but also by so many of your own party MEMBERS!

You describe this as 'lazy'; I'd go even further, and suggest that it is yet another deliberate attempt to kid people that May's unconditional surrender document delivers Brexit - when, as this analysis shows, it does nothing of the sort.

https://spectator.us/40-horrors-theresa-mays-brex...

Very well said, ManFromKent.

"Which eventual fate will be the European Research Group’s?"
That, like the fate of the Tory Party, will depend on how they treat the electorate. If the ERG compromise the way that Rees-Mogg has, they will go down with the Tory Party as a whole, who face richly-deserved oblivion at the next general election.
If they wish to hold by the result of the referendum, and avoid being dragged down by the Parliamentary Tory Party, they had better put as much distance between themselves and the Remainders as possible, and as soon as possible. If you don't want to be sucked down by the 'Titanic', put as much clear water as you can between the sinking ship and your small but seaworthy lifeboat.
Rees-Mogg and the other tough-talking but weak-acting ditherers have very little time left to choose their side, and even LESS goodwill on the part of voters.
As for the Tory Party at large; I've been following politics for about 60 years, now - and I have NEVER seen the like of this, so spare us your talk of 'historical precedent'. Large numbers of party members showing cut-up membership cards on public forums? Even worse, large numbers of long-term party activists refusing to turn out and campaign for the Party? Donors turning off the cash-flow? And the PM being told by those in charge of the accounts that the Party cannot afford to fight a general election?
Yet, STILL, the Tory MPs refuse to take ANY effective action against those most responsible!
How can any party in SUCH a state possibly survive as an effective force in Parliament?

I have far more respect for Ken Clarke. I regard him as an enemy, true - but an HONEST enemy, who has never been afraid to speak his mind on our membership of the EU.

As Churchill pointed out, democracy is an awful way to run a country - but every other system that has been tried is far worse.

Ouch!! I can hardly think of a worse thing to say about Morgan, David - yet it's no more than she deserves!

Morgan: "We do not want to appeal to popular nationalism but we are patriotic . . . "
What is UNpatriotic about nationalism? Or do you - like so many liberal lefties - equate nationalism with Nazism?
And what is wrong about 'populism', which doesn't mean 'listening to a baying mob' - it means taking account of the needs and wishes of ordinary people? That is something the Tory Party stopped doing years ago - even with its own party members!

It will take more than that to save them from angry Leave voters.

"The Brexit Effect is starting to take its toll and the activities of all Members of Parliament has given local politicians a bad name, indicating that apathy is our biggest enemy."
I doubt it - I'm pretty sure you'll find that your biggest enemies are your own party leadership, and thousands of outraged Leave voters.
"Our campaign is targeted to carry the message that Chelmsford Conservatives have a great track record on local matters and that this election is not a referendum on Brexit."
Leave voters are not seeing it as a referendum on Brexit - we're seeing it as a refendum on the Tory government and MPs, and their despicable betrayal of EVERY promise they made on honouring the referendum vote. The tragedy of it is that THEY will be directly responsible for so many hard-working councillors losing their seats - but this is down to the deliberate separation between grass-roots Tory Party members and the Parliamentary Tory Party, a process which was started by Hague, and completed by Cameron, who infamously said that "most Party activists are swivel-eyed loons".
As I see it, the only hope for the Party's survival is for EVERY one of their Remain MPs - up to and including May and her entire cabinet - to be swept out of power at the next election, and for the new Party leader to give back the power which was stolen from grass-roots members.
Power without accountability, ALWAYS leads to disaster.