You don't see as much of the arrogance which claimed that countries would be queuing up to trade with us from 30 March any more - maybe the penny has dropped after two and a half years of being an international laughing stock?

The Referendum was called by a Prime Minister who wanted to shut up an anti EU wing of his party which had banged on about nothing else for a quarter of a century or more. He, and his Chancellor, are gone now because their gamble failed and they did such an atrocious job of trying to persuade the country into believing they were right. Now, after a totally pointless election (again called for purely party political reasons) called by his successor which side tracked the leaving process for months and left the governing party in a much weaker state, we are at a stage where the Prime Minister is trying to push through a leaving arrangement that it would appear has remainers and leavers united against it. If Parliament does end up accepting Mrs May's negotiated settlement, we're going to be left as members of te EC in all but name still with the same bunch of rebels in the tory parrty crying betrayal for the sidelines that Cameron tried to silence, so what will have been the point in it all?

In the background, the hard line leavers are desperately trying to cobble together the numbers required to launch a vote of no confidence against the PM which it's generally agreed she'd win anyway, so Rees-Mogg and co seem to be guilty of a serious miscalculation.

Meanwhile, the official opposition are basically saying nothing in the probably mistaken belief that they will gain from the Government's woes. After all, there is little evidence that this has happened over the past two and a half years, so why should it changed now - once again, we are saying purely party political interests at a time when something less shallow than that is required.

As I say, an international laughing stock.