Well, the trouble with Project Fear, as many of us said at the time, was that they held very few cards. All the aces were held by leave, especially on immigration. The lowest common denominator and the pandering to the basest instincts of the populace were theirs for the taking, and they took them gleefully. The remain campaign was wrong-headed and, at times, despicable (the worst bits propagated by your erstwhile friend and fellow Tory-traveller George Osborne, Nigel, lest we forget. You must be embarrassed...) and a shambles. But the thing is that remain couldn't appeal to populist instincts whereas leave had that as the cynical best weapon in its armoury. No need to talk about balance, Nigel, except to say that both sides were as bad as each other and both helped to shed far more heat than light.