These two worlds have viciously denigrated and belittled each other. The trendy, wealthy, cosmopolitan residents of the capital have sneered at the uncouth denizens of Brexit-land. Dismissed them as Out-liers. Nigel Farage, the Wat Tyler of our time, has spat back grisly invective of his own. But the result of this confrontation is clear – it is the urban sophisticates whose heads are on the spikes of the masses, not the other way around.

This combustible social squaring up is a token of the profound nature of the two camps’ mutual incomprehension. But through the bitter, patronising insults that have been hurled back and forth, above the reckless hurly-burly, one sentiment stands out: white working class voters feel that, just for once, they have not been silenced. Quite the reverse. And they have used their newfound power to give the establishment, out-of-touch metropolitan ruling class, a damn good kicking.