April 20

This election is about two things: avoiding by-elections due to Tory electoral fraud and securing a bigger majority before brexit pain becomes obvious, all so May can shape brexit in her own image and in ways that were not on the ballot paper.
Labour activists meanwhile already seem more keen on attacking the Lib-Dems than they do the Tories. The message has clearly gone out: 'go back to your constituencies and prepare not to be in government'. Labour are all over the place on the big issue, and are afraid to take a position. Like disaster groupies, they want the Tories to be responsible for Brexit damage and to then step in as saviours, but by not speaking out now, they are allowing the damage to happen in the first place. 
Parties wanting more scrutiny of brexit and/or a say for the people of Britain on deal/no deal are thin on the ground. Lib-Dems, Greens, and if you're in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland, a nationalist party.
Some commentators have called this a coup. It is certainly an attempt to hide nasty truths in plain sight. It is also further evidence that talk of unity masks the opposite, as May presents the election as a way to silence opposition, which is an essential component of democracy and good government. Since taking over as leader, Theresa May has sought to by pass any ways opposition can hold her to account, and stop members of her own party who disagree with her. This is not healthy.
Her pitch is to hardcore leavers, not to the entire electorate, let alone the entire country. All her talk of the 'British people' and a 'united country' (opposed only in parliament, according to her, the sabotEUrs), is in fact only a pitch to the smaller group. But she knows very well Britain's flawed First Past the Post electoral system can deliver her a majority with only a quarter to a third of the electorate voting for her. Not for the first time, a dictatorship of the minority will impose pain on everyone else.
And it makes any final say for the British people on the exit deal, including an option to change their minds or for a new generation of voters to have a say in the first place, impossible. Yet we do not know what the deal will be, what damage it will do and what brexit damage will be apparent in future. The normal checks and balances of our (admittedly half-baked) democracy will be silenced.
If brexit is so wonderful, why all this obfuscation?
Sadly, Labour's weakness and backing for brexit means we will find out just how wonderful it is. For the rest of us, this election may be the first step in the campaign to rejoin the EU (or in Scotland, and perhaps Northern Ireland, the first step to rejoining the EU via independence). Vote clearly for pro-Europe candidates, so that we all know exaclty how may people support Europe. That will be something to build on.