Among the deposed, there is still some thrashing and wailing but their official pronouncements must be sounding more and more deluded even to those who would like to cleave to them. Tony Blair proposes a new “platform” for the Remain camp to organise its resistance movement. He described his new front group (sorry, “platform”) as a venue for the “millions of politically homeless people in Britain”. Who are these displaced hordes whom Mr Blair will convene? Why, him and his gang of usurpers who took over and asset-stripped the Labour Party and so made its old supporters truly homeless – which is why so many of them now vote for Ukip. It is the lost tribes of the centre ground for whom Mr Blair weeps.

Then there is Sir John Major, who insists that the result of the referendum can be discounted as a mandate for Brexit because “[no one] can determine by osmosis what was in the minds of the 52 per cent of people who voted to leave.” This could, indeed, also be said of the result of every general election. Although any party which won a 52 per cent majority in a parliamentary election would be flabbergasted at the suggestion that the election should be re-run because it was impossible to be sure what was in the minds of the people who voted for it. In fact, the centrist-liberal axis which has been so definitively trounced does have a glimmering of what went wrong. It would be odd if they did not – considering that everybody and his wife has now told them.