The House of Commons has just voted down Theresa May’s deal on Brexit, the terms on which Britain will leave the European Union, for the second time. In a few hours they will vote on whether to try to extend Article 50 and delay Brexit until it’s possible to work out what to do. The problem with this is that no one really knows what they want to do. Or, perhaps more accurately, not enough people hold any one idea of what we should be doing.

I should point out here that I’m not neutral in any sense at all. I used to work for UKIP and stood as a candidate for them. I ghost-wrote Nigel Farage’s newspaper articles. Even in that organization dedicated to Britain leaving the EU, I was an extremist, thinking that the very existence of the EU was a bad idea, should never have been started, and everyone should leave it. If Britain leaves without a deal and “crashes out,” then I might be the only satisfied bunny on this continent. Perhaps I should also point out that I currently live in Portugal, and I love Europe and its many peoples. It’s the political structure of the EU I’m against, trying to manage 500 million people with an unelected technocracy of bureaucrats.