Incidentally, in my view the referendum fell far short of what a democratic process should be. I think it was actually very UNdemocratic in a number of ways. The campaign on both sides was predicated on lying and fearmongering and not on facts and there was a fair peppering of racism coming from the leave side. The threshold for a successful leave vote was set way too low. The upshot is that just over a third of electors have pitched us out of the EU. You call all that democratic, I call it a shambles that is already turning into a disaster. The Tories, namely Cameron, called the referendum in their own self-interests (it failed abysmally on that count). May called an election purely in her own self-interest. Failed again. Now she's clinging on to power in the Tory party's self-interest with the spurious claim that she is somehow providing stability. To misquote Bones, it's a democracy, Jim, but not as we ought to know it.

(Not you, Jim)