Having foolishly made this thing, I am immediately regretting it.

As with previous series of #BrexitDiagram, the cost-benefit is really poor. https://twitter.com/jonworth/status/1305823839885185025

The amount of time taken to make the diagram, versus the rather meagre Twitter and blog reaction, is not good.

Other than from @usherwood there is no engagement whatsoever from anyone else in the quasi intellectual UK-Brexit Twitter circle.

Think tankers prefer to retweet think tankers.

Lawyers engage with lawyers.

Trade nerds talk to trade nerds.

Journalists - especially UK ones - have never paid any attention to these diagrams, and I can't see why that might change now.

Yes, the diagrams are complex. But these procedures are complex. I can't refine the technique further without dumbing the whole thing down too much.

Also the accuracy of the four previous series of #BrexitDiagram have been spot on - throughout the whole of last year. This method *actually works*.

But I suppose we'd all just prefer quick emotional engagement with content that confirms our confirmation bias to having to do any serious thinking to explain and synthesise the complexity of what is happening

Or maybe the method is now as tired and as tiring as Brexit itself is, and I better find some different way to explain all of this.

I do not earn a cent from these diagrams, and they're slow and hard work to make.

The only point continuing is if they are useful to people - and the meagre reaction gives the strong impression they are not useful *enough* to people to justify ploughing this furrow further.

The next time anyone asks my "why is there no diagram?" about something, I will point them to this thread.

There might be further diagrams in this Series 5, when major events shape outcomes. But following every twist and turn of this - that's unlikely.

/ends