For over half a century now, I have been convinced that the best way to judge any State is to ignore everything it promises, and simply observe what it does. I have yet to find anything other than a yawning Grand Canyon of swirling hypocrisy between promise and action.

“Let’s get Brexit done!” said Boris Johnson nearly two years ago. Once someone with balls finally decided to tell Barnier the Liar where to shove it, some progress was made….but only some. BoJo played the Brexit card to get elected – the deal he “won” in the end wasn’t materially much better than the Maypole’s sellout – and in the light of his election, the unelected State so perniciously represented by Sir Mark Sedwill has continued to propagandise in favour of a return to the EU’s closed ranks.

I see no sign at all of any real desire by The Great…