If we do enter into the unfortunate circumstance of another vote, I see that there are some, including John McDonnell, who are suggesting that remain shouldn't be an option on the ballot paper. I think that would be an outrage and an affront to democracy. We are where we are because of unforeseen difficulties (yes, I know...), the need for unsavoury compromises and almost certain economic catastrophe. None of those were flagged up by the leave side in the first campaign, so giving us now only a choice of how to leave would be immoral. If this country still has the ability to ditch brexit, then that option must be on the ballot. Far too much has changed since June 2016 for the assumption to be fairly made that we must "respect the result (38 percent, lest we forget) of the referendum." The very fact that we'd be having another vote instead of just getting on with it suggests a root and branch rethink. Massaging the ballot to exclude remaining would be an affront to millions of people whose only choice would then be between two equally bad options. There's already a groundswell against that which would result in millions of spoiled ballot papers with REMAIN scrawled across. It's a dead cert that such a ballot simply wouldn't work.