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Before Westminster breaks up for its three-month summer holiday, a word of heartfelt thanks.

To the majority of MPs for focusing on the public’s number one priority: The need for you to knife each other in the throat. It’s why you fully deserve the 11% pay rise you’ve just given yourselves.

To Boris Johnson for emptying a steaming pile of dung from his nappy on to all of our heads then crawling off and telling nanny to clean it up.

And to the Labour Party, who answered accusations they needed to reconnect with disillusioned northern folk by turning into a cringeful end of the Blackpool Pier comedy act.

This was their week to surge back into favour by nailing the Tories for driving the country’s future off a cliff. Instead they thought they’d have an internal nuclear war.

Their mass, co-ordinated resignations drowned out the Brexiteers’ admissions that their pledges were lies. Instead of Labour MPs hammering them into the floor, they stabbed their leader, wept tears of self-pity or did Silent Disco at Glastonbury.

Instead of slaughtering the disgraced and vulnerable David Cameron for his catastrophic error they instead let him morph into a national hero by bellowing at Jeremy Corbyn to go.

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I get why people want Corbyn out. I’ve heard it from many Labour supporters I respect and whose fears about his electoral chances I share.

But what possessed those MPs to launch their much-awaited coup now, with no alternative leader in the wings, and little chance of persuading the members who voted for Corbyn that he is a self-indulgent, navel-gazing, traitor. As that’s how they’re looking right now.

This flimsy notion that Corbyn should be ditched because of his lukewarm referendum campaigning doesn’t wash, when Labour’s messiah-in-exile, Alan Johnson, headed the party’s Remain campaign and made as much impact as a trump in a hurricane.

I live in the constituency of one of the Shadow Cabinet rebels, but I didn’t see her, or her team, knocking at my door, asking for my vote. Even though the Lib-Dems did.

Besides, 63% of Labour voters went with Remain, and speaking to some of the 37% who didn’t I doubt that any other recent leader would have changed that figure by much.

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Because Labour has been losing working-class support for most of this century.

On Sunday Tony Blair claimed that voting for Brexit was like buying a house without looking at it. Which wasn’t the smartest analogy.

At the last count the Blairs owned 41 properties, all bought with the money he earned becoming a global jet-setter on the back of working-class voters, many of whom left the party because of his disaster in Iraq.

Ed Miliband joined in the “grandee” chorus saying Corbyn had to go in the party’s interest. This from a man who was told for five years he was unelectable, was soundly beaten in the General Election that sparked this

referendum, whose immediate resignation threw the party into chaos, and who introduced the voting changes that allowed the current leader to win by a landslide.

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Yet Corbyn, not he, is the man to blame for destroying party unity, even though Labour has been divided into two camps ever since Gordon Brown decided Blair stitched him up 22 years ago.

In the wider scheme of things it doesn’t really matter if Corbyn goes or stays, because the party looks terminally split between its grass roots and Westminster. And thus terminally ineffective.

Still, the good news for those Labour MPs who’ve agonised over joining in with The Red Flag at the end of the annual conference, is that the quandary may soon be over.

Because the only song you might need to learn for September is The Party’s Over.