LONDON — Once in a while, the British gift for mockery aligns just so with social media frothery and weighty matters of state. Such a moment came this week when HarperCollins announced that one of its units would publish the autobiography of David Cameron in September.

In case you’ve forgotten, that’s David Cameron, the former prime minister who wanted to stay in the European Union, rolled the dice on a referendum he hoped would unite his Conservative Party, lost the gamble, quit, largely vanished from view, left the party more deeply divided than ever, bequeathed the nation years of political chaos, and is widely reviled by the left, the right, europhiles and euroskeptics.

Cue the Twitter flood.

“I believe the audiobook version features someone sobbing,” @WGallagher replied to the HarperCollins tweet.

@BJT98 asked, “Will the hardback come without a spine as well?”

“I do hope it will be printed on perforated, soft paper,” @GriffAuroroa wrote, “so that it can be of some use to us all.”