“Fuck business,” said the Flatulent Leader, some time before he assumed office, and “fuck business,” is what he has seemed hell bent on ever since. “Brexit is behind us, now is the time to come together,” he told us before embarking on some of the the most divisive policies this country has known. And there is, for the moment, and as far as I can see, no constitutional measure to stop him.

The uncertainty hanging over individuals, small business, large business as Britain careers towards… towards what? A deal with the EU – the market for roughly 50% of the goods we export – or no deal? Tariffs, no tariffs? No certainty over the legal structure that will oversee future trade, no certainty over the paperwork, the checks, the very time it will take for a lorry to pass through the docks. That’s all bad enough.

But come to consider the diminution in Britain’s international standing and diplomatic clout and you will truly glimpse the damage that Brexit has done and will continue to do, as the British Prime Minister is seen truly caught between the devil and the deep blue sea.

One final point gives just as a flavour of things to come: arguably the most important issue facing the country, and indeed the entire world, is climate change. Who does Johnson ask to take charge of the COP 26 Climate Summit? Dave-boy-Cameron, the prime minister whose misjudgement and arrogant laziness got us into the Brexit mess in the first place.