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It doesn't really matter what the reports say though does it? People chose not to listen before, they're not going to listen to the same stuff again with a new date on it. And when it does go wrong it'll just be somebody else's fault. A nice, easy repercussion-free way of doing things.

Some of them were brilliant. His tweet didn't have a lot to work with unfortunately.

I wonder whether the editor would have any pictures of Andrew Neil accompanied by a model under the influence of gravity that he does approve of? [Private Eye letters page\]

Have you seen who is going to be voting for the next leader? If the deranged witterings on Conservative Home are anything to go by, they'll accept nothing less than Rees-Mogg or the ghost of Oswald Mosley.

They even have their own Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mogg.

And rest assured, that fine gentleman would undoubtedly assure you that he knew exactly what he was voting for, and that he wasn't one of those people who hadn't fully thought things through.

They're just so predictable.

He probably does mean that. Although a quick curiosity Google reveals that Senpaku is an ocular disorder, that in Japanese superstition means that the sufferer is going to meet an early and tragic fate*. So maybe it works either way. But probably not. *As was the case for the sanpaku-afflicted JFK, RFK, Princess Diana, Abraham Lincoln, Jill Dando, Sharon Tate and Jim Morrison.

Surrender in Europe Day

It's the polls stopping the Government working out what it wants from this?

I've never really read much Twitter, so I'll have to take your word for it. Edit - although I'll take the moment to congratulate you on what I'm sure must be 11,000 intellectually unique internet posts.

Not true, it's caused wrecks to pile up all over the place.

Layman's terms - we're actually going to take your cake and throw it in the bin. And then hide your recipe book.

I guess the only question is whether we roll over immediately, give in and agree with everything, or whether we waste time, argue for a few months and then roll over, give in and agree with everything.

Ruling out another referendum is some pretty shoddy politicking then, isn't it?

Ian Dunt was suggesting similar a week or so ago: I thought everyone was on the same page on this. It'd go on for two years and we were going to keep everything as is. There are still difficulties. We need to address the deals the EU has with other countries. These go from full free trade deals with countries like Canada, to smaller trade agreements, to treaties guaranteeing regulatory cooperation on things like aviation and nuclear regulation. All told there are about 750 of them. I thought Liam Fox said he'd get all this sorted? Yes he did. It may or may not surprise you to learn that that was all nonsense. London is going to have to convince Brussels to help. Will that be hard? Hard but not impossible. Brussels has selfish reasons to want the deals to roll-over. German manufacturing, for instance, occasionally relies on goods going from the UK to South Korea under an existing trade deal. But we're going to have to go cap-in-hand to the EU again, after months of Fox's demented chest-thumping. The two sides can then present a united front to other countries and face down any complaints from those demanding a trade remedy. Is that it? Doubtful. Europe knows it has us over a barrel on avoiding a March 2019 cliff edge, so member states are likely to start ratcheting up the demands on transition. Many of them are baffled as to why Brussels offered it at all, given that it reduces their time advantage. http://www.politics.co.uk/blogs/2018/01/18/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-brexit-endgame-in-five The whole thing is a decent read.

Personally, I think that the only sound response to any party member unhappy with Bolton as leader is along the lines of WE HAD A VOTE AND THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN, WHY DO YOU HATE DEMOCRACY???!!!111

Ish. It's mainly made to work by manipulation of the tender process. So Berlin City Transport Authority (for example) made it a condition of tender that any winning bid to run the S-Bahn had to provide €1bn of new rolling stock. Unsurprisingly, only Deutsche Bahn were interested. So a bit of a sneaky workaround, but all within the rules. What can't really be done under EU rules is full on Bolshevik style Communism. Apparently there was nothing in the last Labour manifesto that couldn't have been implemented, according to a study by Andy Tarrant and Andrea Biondi (no, me neither) which is easily Googleable.

They don't seem high in comparison with the bonuses of those company directors who have managed to not direct their companies to liquidation? That's not really comparing similar levels of performance is it?

Yes, you're right. Expecting people in this situation to make sensible judgements based on economic arguments wasn't, and isn't going to happen anymore. "If the EU wants to cut itself from the sources of capital that keep the banking system and debt markets afloat then they won’t do a deal on financial services. If they want to maintain the Eurozone, they will" Ah.

A quick Google would suggest something along the lines of "we are Hungarian and aren't really up on our English slang words for female genitalia, so probably won't factor that into the naming of our daughter"

Maybe, just maybe all the people who believed the lies from last time might be a little bit more critical about the poison that the likes of Johnson and Farage are feeding them. Edit - not that it matters. This is nothing more than an ugly little reprobate trying to keep his name in the papers for one more day. It's irrelevant in the grand scheme of things.

The other amusing irony is that their current tactic is basically "if you don't let us keep things as they are then you are risking political and economic instability". Or, the exact sentiment that was so widely mocked by the same people in June 2016 who are now using it.

While Messers Davis and Hammond are off in Germany telling everyone how silly it would be to do anything that might make it harder for financial services firms to operate. Demonstrating a massive lack of self-awareness, in Davis's case at least.

"Prime Minister - you know all those rules that the EU have written down in all those big long documents that we haven't read? Well, they're only going and bloody sticking to them! Yours, David Davis, Master Negotiator"