Over the weekend, Nigel Farage, who has managed to keep effectively stirring the shit in British politics long past the point you would have ever thought possible, said he thinks Theresa May is thinking of calling another general election. His proof for this was May’s admittedly rather odd social media post, which read:

“The path I set out here is the path to deliver the Brexit people voted for. I will need your help and support to get there. And in return my pledge to you is simple: I will not let you down”

“I need your help and support” does sound like classic electioneering. Could it be possible? Well, for starters, she’s done it once before. Then there is the increasingly impossible bind she has got herself into in terms of customs arrangements, trying to get her cabinet to sign up to something that the Commission has already rejected, all to avoid having to propose something even more preposterous to the EU (which has also already been rejected), all while she faces a rebellion in the Commons that would force us into a customs union – and another, less likely to succeed amendment that could go the whole hog and keep us in the EEA. I guess I can see how you might think a GE was your only way out. Added to this, the local elections weren’t nearly as bad as expected, meaning Corbynmania, such as it ever really was, is on the wane.

Until, that is, you thought about the counterfactual. A general election could go any which way, and the Tories are a long way from assured of a majority – or even of keeping hold of what they arithmetically have now. The Conservatives haven’t exactly excelled at selling Brexit to young people – or indeed Remainers of any age, now that you mention it. Here’s Jacob Rees-Mogg, the great white hope of the Brexity Right, doing his bit to win the yoofs over this morning: