Billions of years from now, when the Sun finally dies and expands to swallow and burn up the Earth in a final cataclysmic explosion, the very last thing to turn to dust and atoms will be Scottish Labour’s brass neck.

Coming from The Eternal Abstainers themselves that’s already quite a breathtakingly hypocritical claim, but if you look at last night’s results closely it gets a lot worse.

There were four votes in the Commons from 8pm.

Ken Clarke’s “customs union but no single market”, to which Murray referred and on which the SNP abstained because it would have resulted in a disastrous Brexit with no single market and no freedom of movement, lost by just three votes:

It failed because 10 Labour MPs voted against it. Had they not done so, it would have passed by a margin of seven (had they abstained) or 17 (had they backed it). The vote would also have passed if it hadn’t been opposed by the 11 mostly-ex-Labour MPs of The Independent Group.

Of course, the failure of the Clarke plan wasn’t in itself such a terrible thing, for the reasons noted above. But there was a far superior version of it available, in the shape of the “Common Market 2.0” plan put forward by (now former) Tory MP Nick Boles, which would have included those two key aspects and which was officially backed by both Labour and the SNP as well as 33 Tories.

It represented basically the softest and least damaging Brexit possible, but it failed because of the votes of 25 Labour MPs who opposed it. As with the Clarke proposal, had they even just abstained the vote would have been won by a margin of four.

(This time the Independent Group MPs would have had to actively vote for the motion in order for it to pass by a single vote – had they just abstained it would have still lost by 10, so this one is solely on Labour.)

The Kyle-Wilson suggestion of a confirmatory referendum – effectively the so-called “People’s Vote” – was also officially backed by Labour and the SNP, as well as The Independent Group, the Lib Dems, Plaid Cymru, the Greens and 15 rebel Tories.

But it was defeated because 24 Labour MPs voted against it. Once again, even abstentions would have seen the vote pass by 12.

And finally, the SNP’s emergency-parachute option, whereby failure to agree a deal by the April 12 deadline would result in Article 50 being revoked rather than no-deal Brexit, lost because Labour whipped their MPs to abstain on it, although a brave 121 of them rebelled and backed the proposal anyway.

If Labour had whipped to support the plan, it would have garnered another 123 votes and passed by a majority of 22 even despite 18 Labour MPs voting against it.

(Cherry’s proposal, incidentally, is the ONLY way to actually guarantee that no-deal is “taken off the table” – something Parliament has repeatedly voted for and which Labour officially insists must happen, but which the party effectively blocked last night by whipping for abstention.)

In short, then, every single vote last night aimed at breaking the deadlock and avoiding a hard or no-deal Brexit was defeated by Labour MPs.

At the very least, you might hope the party would have the decency to maintain an embarrassed silence. But blaming the SNP for Labour’s failings is in Labour’s DNA. So if a no-deal happens in 10 days’ time, as seems increasingly inevitable, prepare yourself for an onslaught.