Given that the Farage phenomena took a milkshake to the suit today I was wondering where we all stood (not next to Nigel hopefully) on this Brexit popularism thang! Me I'm with the 'Bollox to Brexit' crew (Liberal Democrats), but I thought I'd rattle a few Zimmer-frames with the following observations:

(1). Farage is a complete fraud. He has keyed into popular discontent, but his party doesn't even have a manifesto. It is "agree with me". "Trust me". "97% say Ja". But . . . well basically the guy isn't a professional politician and I mean that in a negative sense. Oh, he's different, but he also has some pretty disturbing tendencies. As a remainer, I know that anything that doesn't please the Nigel is my fault, but really how long are people going to be taken in by his at best nostalgic drivel about a Britain that never existed.

(2). Even if his party tops the polls on Friday morning, so what? He won't have a single MP. A whinger's charter is all he has to offer. Brexit will (failing a General Election -- in which his party will not gain many if any seats) still be decided -- thankfully by professional politicians and the media, which I wish would just ignore the Nigel. It will be a soft Brexit, and those who think otherwise are free to spend their free-time protesting in the streets!

(3) The original problem here was all David Cameron. Why oh why promise a referendum on EU membership? That's right, as a political stunt to quieten his Euroskeptics, but need the whole country pay in economic terms for the Tories failure to manage their own internal dissensions? Everyone expected the referendum result to be 'Yes'. It wasn't. Hence the problem. Not sure another referendum will solve anything, as we are a parliamentary democracy and parliament is sovereign -- weren't Brexiteers of that opinion while they thought parliament agreed with them? A confirmatory vote on what parliament decides would be a better idea.

(4) Yes, I am a claret and we did better in Europe than this present lot, but really do we want to make things worse by allowing Nigel to lead us further down the garden path? All responses, respectful and otherwise, welcome.

Savannahclaret.