We must not refer to the more enthusiastic followers of Jeremy Corbyn as a “cult”. This is known. It is offensive and patronising to assume that any of those new Labour Party members who joined up to support Jez regard him as some sort of quasi-religious figure – a Messiah, if you will.

If they choose to believe that every criticism of Corbyn’s past associations with terrorists, anti-Semites and Islamists is based on lies rather than, say, the factual historical record, then that is their right. But they are not a cult, got it?

So anyway, let’s talk about sheep.

The odd thing about sheep is that even without the presence of a sheepdog, they have a natural herding instinct. By moving in a single block, they give the appearance to potential predators that they are a very large, single organism, so you’d better not mess with it. And then the shepherd comes along with a couple of sheepdogs and a camera crew and next thing you know we have a slice of primetime Sunday afternoon viewing.

Labour is in the pre-sheepdog phase right now, as can be shown by the results of a poll showing up to 80 per cent of Labour Party members oppose Britain leaving the EU single market. And a majority of them also want a second referendum. This, presumably, is because of all the fun we had with the first one last year.