Brexiters said we’d celebrate June 23 as our Independence Day. One year on from the referendum, are you really happy with the pig’s ear you’ve made of things?
Are you thrilled with the chaos in our government caused by the referendum? By Theresa May grabbing power – with her “Brexit means Brexit” mantra – even though she didn’t have a clue what to do and has now been exposed as an empress with no clothes?
Are you happy that the Tories are so desperate to cling to office that they are keeping May in Downing Street although she’s a busted flush? That they are grovelling to Northern Ireland’s reactionary Democratic Unionists to bail them out?
Are you pleased that the government still hasn’t a clue what to do on Brexit and that the two-year clock is ticking away like a bomb?
Do you cheer that we may have another election in a few months’ time – with a devil’s choice between Jeremy Corbyn and whoever is Tory leader?
Are you happy we’ve lost our first battle in Brussels? That we caved in when they told us to discuss how much we owed them before we talk about a new trade deal?
Are you delighted that the brain drain has already started, with nursing applications from the EU down 96%?
Are you congratulating the prime minister on making a “generous offer” to guarantee the rights of 3 million EU citizens living here, when we could have generated so much good will if we’d done this a year ago?
Are you still crowing that we threw our lot in with Donald Trump and prostituted ourselves by inviting him on a state visit only to discover that he’s scared of coming?
Did you really want us to fall from being the fastest- to being the slowest-growing member of the Group of Seven large industrialised nations? To be ripping us out of the EU just when it’s reviving? To see inflation rising to nearly 3%, making real incomes fall? And to damage our public finances when we need every penny we can get for the NHS, schools and old people?
Well, if you do, shame on you.
And, if you don’t, it’s not too late to change your mind. As Donald Tusk, president of the European Council, said yesterday when asked if Britain could still stay in the EU: “I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one.”