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Had we left the European Union on June 24, 2016, we wouldn't be in this mess.

We'd be living in a lorry park, drinking unpurified water, recruiting thousands of new border guards to be murdered by the IRA, and watching the NHS collapse under the cost of medicines that are suddenly 10 times the price.

So let's count our blessings that we've merely had 33 months of political chaos, billionaires in flight, a total lack of decision-making and general despair at the flipping state of it.

Had we left already, there'd be no way back. The EU would say we no longer met the economic tests for membership. The wingnuts would insist that having Left, they would be Right if we only Believed In Britain. We would be about as welcome in Europe as the Black Death.

Because we did not leave, the pro-Brexit loons have instead taken part in an extended, public, personnel review. They have resigned, rebelled, staged coups, surrendered, changed their minds and taken back control, only to lose it to a sovereign Parliament they campaigned for and are now enraged by.

Another public vote of some sort is almost inevitable; but as all votes so far have been indicative of cock-up, some fear the outcome.

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But we still have freedom of movement in terms of Brexit: we can choose what to do next. And all signs indicate the grown-ups are about to return.

Of more than 70 polls carried out since the last general election, just 2 have put Leave ahead, and only by a smidgeon. Those were in the days immediately after Theresa May was handed her arse on a plate, accompanied by a jus of minority government.

The results have tied a few times, and in the vast majority Remain has been ahead by a margin greater than the original referendum - as much as 12%.

Polls aren't always reflected by fact. But the reason polls were awry in 2016 was because the people couldn't decide. Now, the number of Remainers is greater than the margin of error, and it seems we have decided at last.

Around 1million Revokers marched through London. Almost 6million have signed a government petition to reverse the process of leaving the EU.

By comparison, a hard core of about 75 Leavers are marching from Sunderland, 135,000 have signed a petition against a second referendum, 141,000 signed one demanding to leave without a deal, and 579,000 have signed a second, also wanting no deal.

If you generously assume all those Leavers are different people, those marching are 99.9925% Revoke, and those signing petitions are 85.75% Revoke.

Perhaps you'd like to argue Leavers are less inclined to march or sign things; it proves though that much of the Leave voter rage we have been threatened with has, like Nigel Farage's sexual charisma, yet to manifest.

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And after 5 years of Labour having failed to do the job, the Prime Minister is finally facing a strong opposition: 17% of the voters in her Maidenhead constituency have signed the Revoke petition.

More of her voters want to Revoke than voted for her nearest rival at the last election. In Islington North, Jeremy Corbyn's massive majority is under attack by 35% of his electorate.

Jacob Rees-Mogg has just had his 10,235 majority overturned by 10,448 Remainers. A fact which, I am sure, had absolutely no impact on his screeching Brexit u-turn.

The Independent Group of MPs appear to have made the right decision, with massive numbers of signatories in their constituencies. The last remaining bastion of Leave is the West Midlands, where only 2-3% of Wolverhampton, Birmingham, Dudley and West Bromwich want to Revoke.

If there's another general election, you can bet your bottom dollar Nigel will scrape together the deposit to stand in Walsall North - which had a 74.2% Leave vote in 2016, and only 1,893 Revokers in 2019.

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The Revoke campaign is now the official opposition. It has produced the biggest government petition in history, and presents more of a threat to the Prime Minister's job than anything else.

Revokers are not based in Parliament. They cannot be whipped on party lines. And, if Theresa is forced to call a general election decided entirely on Brexit and which will involve all MPs freelancing outside their party machine, Revokers exist in great enough numbers to fell the big beasts who have done so much to internationally disgrace us.

Down will come foot-stamping Iain Duncan Smith, whose 2,438 majority will be swamped by the votes of 11,400 grown-ups. Down will go Zac Goldsmith, Kate Hoey, Theresa Villiers, Philip Davies (hurrah!), and half a dozen more.

And down will come the biggest beast of all - the 5,034 majority of Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson will be gobbled up by the 7,848 Revokers in his Uxbridge bolthole.

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The will of the people has, quite simply, changed. It has changed as this troupe of chimps feathered their nests, humiliated the Prime Minister, quaffed champagne, likened themselves to the Grand Wizards of the Ku Klux Klan and, in a final act of disdain, changed their minds while insisting WE could not change OURS.

Their angry denial is rooted in the knowledge that, if we were to vote on the basis of what we see before us, they could not win again. Their insistence that a vote from 3 years ago must take precedence stems not from a wish to protect democracy, but to insulate themselves from the effects of democracy lashing back at them for their failures, selfishness and stupidity.

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The Revoke Party, for want of a better name, is not in Westminster. It lies in Bristol, Hornsey, Greenwich, Esher, Sheffield, Glasgow, Exeter, York. It is in the calm, certain marchers, those Parliamentarians worthy of the name, the quiet majority whose voice was stolen by Russian bots, electoral law breakers, and screaming, racist absolutism.

The voters are more grown-up than those currently in charge. They believe not in Britain, but in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. They know democracy isn't one vote, once, and they don't mind in the least if YOU want to come back and have this referendum again in a few years' time.

Revokers know they'll win, as long as anyone can remember this mess. Whether they get a deal or no deal, Brexit or no Brexit, there is nothing Leavers can do but lose.