“The country is not "in trouble", but the negativity spread by the remoaners and their trough licking friends in parliament make negotiation more difficult. The EU side perceive us as divided and therefore weakened.”

The country is divided because a very divisive referendum campaign, with misrepresentations or downright lies propagated by both sides, yielded a result that was split almost down the middle. It is not undemocratic to try to get a disastrous decision reversed. In fact, that’s what democracy’s all about. Brexit is by no means a done deal and you have no right to keep castigating “remoaners” for exercising their peaceful democratic right to oppose what we think is an impending catastrophe. The other 27, spearheaded by Germany, are not going to be coming back crawling. In fact, and they are increasingly coming to realise this, they could be better off without us, which is why the EU bigwigs are sitting there obstinately giving us nothing. They know they don’t have to. Ever since Maggie’s days we’ve been the pain in the arse standing outside pissing in, getting rebates, not joining the euro or Schengen and demanding all sorts of other exemptions. And, in case you’ve forgotten, we were the sick man of Europe before we joined the EEC and in our first few years of membership, enduring devaluation, a rotten economy, an IMF bailout and the three-day week. We are as strong as we are today not because we are still a mighty global force as the Blimps would like us to believe but because we’ve been a member of the EU. And now the EU is doing a damn sight better than we are “by any metric” and we are increasingly looking like we’re limping behind. And you ain’t seen nothing yet.