Pound slumped, inflation rising, lowest growth in G7 and of most major EU countries, OBR forecast for productivity downgraded for the next five years, the party supposedly running the country at war with itself, Tory backwoodsmen not only briefing against May but also against Hammond, EU refusing to negotiate on a trade deal because we won’t stump up what we owe (once we leave and find ourselves in catastrophe land that sixty billion will look like a drop in the ocean), time ebbing away, brave face now being put on the disastrous prospect of no deal... Oh yes, things are really looking up. Still, never mind. Within a year or two we’ll have revived the Empire, the sun will never set on the red bits of the map and all these desperate foreign Johnnies will be queuing up to do amazing trade deals with us.

Like hell they will. The only way out of this morass is to abandon Article 50 and stay where we are. It can be done and, increasingly probably, it will. And we won’t even need a referendum.