gary younge in the guardian - 'Neither Johnson nor Davis -nor any of the Brexiteers- have a plan that could actually work. Nothing that they promised was real, or true, or possible. Whether we remain or leave the EU, our sovereignty was always contingent on our presence within the global neoliberal system which operates according to the golden rule: those who have the gold make the rules. Both rhetorically and strategically, the Brexiteers have trapped themselves in the role of permanent defiance and disappointment. The world is not what they want it to be. In the absence of any strategy for bending it to their will, they would rather rail at it.

Yet however ridiculous they may now seem, however vain and pompous, they remain dangerous. For, as counterintuitive as it may appear, there is potency in this powerlessness. With sufficient encouragment the rage it creates, the frustration it engenders, the nostalgia it spawns - can have a disruptive effect on politics. We know this because we have seen it happen elsewhere with disastrous consequences. We know this because these were the forces that made possible the president with no moral authority, and the prime minister with no authority whatsoever.'

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