If there is one thing the Flatulent Leader likes, it is spending other peoples money. It’s just a shame he isn’t better at it. The amount he has wasted is staggering: it includes water canon that could not be used, a garden bridge that was never built, the London bikes that he assured us would be costless, but at the last count had run up a public bill of around £250m…

Now he wants to spend even more on a “celebration” of Brexit. This to include flooding Downing Street with red, white and blue lights, and to proclaim the “unity of our great four nations,” – which remain, for the moment, united for the simple reason that Johnson has not got the guts to allow the Scots a second independence vote, thereby making their secession more likely in the long term.

Lord Michael Heseltine has responded that this “festival” of Brexit is unseemly and, speaking as Remainer, serves only to “rub our noses in it.” That may be true, but it is hardly the point: which is that Johnson’s lies have lead to what pretty much all intelligent independent observers believe to be a catastrophic decision, one that has been estimated to have already reduced the economy by £130bn, a figures expected to rise to £200bn by the end of this year.