Excuse me one moment:

"This will turn out as true as all your other predictions regarding me. Remember I was supposed to have been driven from this forum months ago according to you - Hiya Stevie!!!! I'm still here, so is Keith A."

Please tell me when I predicted any such thing. "All my other predictions regarding you" suggests that I go around predicting things about you all the time. Chapter and verse on that one, please.

How nice for you that your "portfolio" (told you he was a Tory!) is doing so well. Typical Tory: I'm doing just great, sod everyone else. Perfect.   I expect that your portfolio is doing a lot better than the portfolios of five million "self-employed," mostly people forced into that position against their will, thousands of young people on half the minimum wage on bogus apprenticeships, aka tea makers and floor sweepers, a million on zero-hours contracts, thousands more who lose pay for daring to go to the toilet or arrive five minutes late and who can stop work for a few minutes every six hours. Our economy is among the weakest performers in the EU. The pound is almost at parity with the euro after being above €1.40 eighteen months ago. This is fuelling inflation that employers can't meet with appropriate pay rises, a time bomb of Cameron's making. Growth is staggering to a halt and productivity can't get off the floor, in spite of these millions of extra people allegedly "in work." Explain that one away. I've mentioned this a number of times before and all we get from you is silence.

As for your referendum, please tell me when a government of opposite colour has ever been bound by the unfulfilled, abandoned promise made by a predecessor. Cameron made his own promises, sod all to do with Gordon Brown, not bound in the slightest way by what Gordon had said but not done. To suggest otherwise is utterly ridiculous. He was running scared of UKIP and he was running scared of his own vicious backwoodsmen (sorry, John). The trouble is that you'd rather construct elaborate retrospective fantasy scenarios than do that much simpler thing, face the truth.