"I assume any response from Brexit supporters will offer nothing more than hope that all our deals will be great ones."

Hopes are all they've got, DMcG. They voted Leave on the basis of nothing more than hopes - no solid factual evidence, no plan for the execution of Brexit should they win, just slogans, sound bites, and lies to bamboozle the racists, the xenophobes, and the feeble-minded. The proof of the lack of conviction of the three main characters in the Leave campaign of the strength of their case was in the way they promptly ran away when it was was announced that they'd won.

Now, here we are two years later, barely any further on, teetering on the brink of disaster, and the clock ticking ever-louder. And in reply to questions about 'any good news on Brexit yet', the' best response fools can come up with is, "We haven't left yet"!

But hey-ho, the tiny immensely wealthy cadre who are giving the government their instructions and driving us towards the cliff-edge of Hard-Brexit are happy, their wealth will be protected, even if the rest of us face hardship, or Irishmen start kicking lumps off each other again. So that's alright then.....

You really couldn't make this pile of crap up.