The PM's flat refusal to address the problems with her Brexit deal is an insult to the British public

It’s all going according to plan. The great establishment stitch-up is no longer even bothering to stay undercover, having recruited its most formidable forces – the Bank of England and the supposedly neutral agents of the Treasury – in its last desperate moves. Theresa May has now explicitly ruled out all the plausible candidates for a Plan B, including a Norway model which was gathering steam at an alarming pace, allegedly leaving only No Deal as an alternative to her wildly unpopular proposal. And, in this last ditch battle, No Deal (invariably described by the BBC as “crashing out”) is getting the full horror show treatment.

So that’s it: the only hands still in play are supposed to be Brexit in Name Only (BRINO) or falling off the cliff into No Deal. In fact, Donald Tusk gave the game away at the G20 on Friday by admitting that there was, in fact, a third option: No Brexit – the conspirators’ real destination of choice – was still in the game. Like an exasperated parent losing patience with a hesitating child, he put it bluntly: mess us around for too long and we’ll see to it that you don’t get out – ever.