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The Rule of Law is one thing, the Dictatorship of the Law quite another. The law should only be used, like estoppel, as a shield and not as a sword. Parliament delegated to the people in the European Union Referendum Act 2015 the decision on our remaining or leaving the EU. The people took that decision for them. The PM should get on with negotiating the best deal she can on the terms of our leaving and activate Art. 50 when she alone judges the best moment to do so. She should also conduct those negotiations in secret so as to achieve the best outcome. All private rights guaranteed by our membership of EU will be enshrined in the transfer to Westminster legislation she has talked about, so that issue has been dealt with and has subsequently been made a red herring. I only hope SC will see it as such. And we all know that if you pay a lawyer enough he will argue until he is blue, or should that be red, in the face that the moon is made of green cheese.

We should also be talking to governments of countries more like ourselves e g Germany, Holland, Denmark, Sweden and Norway, which do not have the huge financial problems of the other EU states, on a loose association for economic co-operation alone and not political, deciding when we can best work together, or separately. The EU has become a very heavily indebted straightjacket of a political and financial nature way beyond its original remit. If we do not get out soon it will drag us down with it. Draghi has just this year increased the money the ECB is printing from 60 bn/month to 80 bn/month. This is only a loan which should be paid back one day.

But it never will be. And what will happen then?