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Oh dear. Simon Davis demonstrates the extent to which the Law Society has become a politicized farce. How and why is this political placeman VP of the Law Society? With a constitution based on Royal Charter, the officers of the Law Society of England & Wales (both majority Leave-voting nations) should tread carefully. This man will be President of the Law Society next year. He actually makes me feel grateful for the SRA.

City lawyers, rightly decried by Andrew Neil of the Daily Politics (though I trust he was not tarring all of us with the same magic brush), are giving the rest of us a bad name. The cross-border crowd are on a very interesting coal-face with Brexit, no doubt about it, but this gives them no right to engage in Project Fear. In fact, quite the opposite is expected and required.

We can say exactly the same for the Labour party (Hilary Benn, Kate Hoey and a handful of others being notable exceptions), as pointed out admirably by Anonymous at 13:23. Labour created the problems we have now with their disastrous and illegal invasion of Iraq and Gordon Brown's recession. No Tory sleaze, including Cameron and the dead pig, can possibly be as bad as this. As a nation we are blotted by Labour's copybook. If Labour MP Alison McGovern wants an argument with the public about Brexit then we had better give her one. It's not about economics, it's about jurisdiction and sovereignty, both of which the Law Society should be promoting and protecting fearlessly.