Mrs. Backwoodsperson and I were discussing the calamitous debacle of BrexShit yesterday, and she reminded me of a 'vox-pop' on one of the BBC news programmes a couple of weeks after the Referendum. The interviewee, a typical Leaver (two-sizes-too-small sweat-shirt, jogging bottoms, un-combed hair, no front teeth) wanted to know why, two weeks after 'the cuntry voted to Leave', we still hadn't 'left Europe'.

"Why are we still in Europe?" he demanded, "We voted to Leave Europe. We should just leave now - today - it's simple!".

Maybe they should have signed him on as Brexit Secretary there and then. He couldn't have done any worse a job than The Praying Mantis and her bunch of Muppets.