I am not so opposed to the CFP as that but what it does emphasise is that remainers do not think the EU is wonderful and perfect. It is a messy and flawed compromise between lots of competing interests and few if any people who look at it on depth will be completely happy with those compromises. And yes, introducing changes is difficult precisely because it is a negotiated compromise. But that is true of many things in life and not in itself a reason to abandon it.

But all this is backward-looking, I would suggest. The 2016 result is what it is. What matters is where we go from here. It was interesting on Newsnight that three pundits were asked what is likely to happen and two bottled out part of the way through the process: they were happy to make best guesses up to a point, but not of the final end state. The third ended up with May's deal but only after all the alternatives had been tried but rejected.