The chief reason why this shabbily deceitful argument is being allowed to dominate the debate is the Eurosceptics’ inability to unite in explaining that there is only one possible route whereby the EU can be made to give Britain that “new relationship” Mr Cameron talks of. But that would mean doing the one thing he says he cannot agree to: using Article 50 of the treaty to say that we wish to join Norway and others outside the EU, but still in the single market. His bluff is finally being called. At the end of this charade, we shall remain just as firmly shackled to all the superstructure of this failing political project as now, having gained little more for his efforts than a lot of rather painful and condescending derision.