Michael, I'm wondering whether there's some medical condition that forces you to take comments literally and bypass all the intended sarcasm.

The latest farce is the breakdown of the voter registration system, meaning that thousands of people missed the deadline through no fault of their own. To its credit, the government has now extended the deadline by two days. Now most of those who are trying to register are (a) likely to vote and (b) young first-time voters who seem likely to vote remain. So guess what the leave campaign are saying. It's a fix. It's a ploy to get more remain voters onside. It's "gerrymandering" (no, really - I actually heard a leave spokesman saying that!). It seems that the leave campaign don't actually believe in the rather inconvenient democracy that they bleat about us losing by being in the EU. Ironic, eh? 😂