My prediction: there will be a poor, threadbare deal, and then will begin the long, slow climb (over many years and probably many different governments, with incremental improvements to the ‘deal’) back to sanity.

The whole Brexit thing has been an absolutely pointless and absolutely destructive waste of time.

We used to be a “member of the club.” In future we shall have to pay (in one way or another) to get the benefits we require, but without full membership and without a say. Pure folly.

I look to a future generation of young politicians who will have lived through this Brexit folly. They will despise Tory fanatics and Labour prevaricators. They will return sanity to our country and with any luck radically reform it.

I think, if they are English, they will welcome Scottish independence and Irish reunification. They won’t stand for the bullshit that swamps us today.