Enjoy another week or two of relative summer calm. After that we’ve got the shitshow of school reopenings and the return of Brexit.

This, from @ShippersUnbound yesterday, illustrates the calamitous miscalculation circulating in Downing Street right now. They genuinely believe no-deal will unite the people against Brussels. They could not be more wrong.

The UK establishment has used EU as a scapegoat and whipping boy for 40 years to cover up British failure. That no longer works. Literally the point of Brexit is to go it alone. For the first time, there’ll be no-one else to blame but the ones who’ve always been to blame: us.

Blitz spirit will only take the Tories so far. We can’t blame the virus for Brexit food shortages or stranded lorries. The chaos is both predictable and predicted. Voters are not going to inculpate themselves and can’t vote out the European Commission. This is on the government.