This impasse is of Parliament’s creation. It is the failure of some MPs to honour the instructions of the British people which has led us here.
It rarely worked for the Conservatives when they tried to out-UKIP UKIP.
The SDP analogies are all wrung dry. But nobody has looked at what a more recent insurgency can teach the new outfit.
“I don’t think a new Farage Party will be where the votes go.” Plus, Rees-Mogg’s view on Corbyn and May’s letters, and Tusk’s “confused” theology.
Few actually agree with him, but a surprising number say they admire his decisiveness and strength.
Where Farage, Johnson and Paterson once praised the Norway option, it is now denounced as apostasy.
Today, May is swinging towards her Party’s leavers. The logic of the Chancellor’s position, and that of his allies, is to block her – or try to.
“If this happens I’ll make sure there a political party with a list that I can be part of.”
Farage urged everyone to prepare for a second referendum, and concluded: “Next time, as far as I’m concerned, it’s no more Mr Nice Guy.”
Plus: Marion Little carries can for CCHQ – and many agents of all parties will think: “there but for the grace of God go I.” And: Am I creepy?
The noise that he picks up, with an almost clairvoyant sense, is not that of a queue waiting to vote but of a mob pitching the mighty from their seats.
Indeed, it would be best to pause Brexit altogether until the parties have worked out what they want – and put it to voters in a general election.
UKIP’s dominant figure tried and failed to keep his party free of Tommy Robinson’s poison. The worst possible people are taking over at the worst possible time.
There has been a tendency to suppose that because Britain’s power has declined in relative terms they must have become totally useless.
Today’s Daily Mail confirms that, under Geordie Grieg, its editorial policy has shifted. Clean Brexit supporters are short of a committed backer that counts.