There are many comments circulating at the moment to the effect that – this is utter chaos and politicians need to get a grip.

True enough, but what this ignores is, I suspect, the use by some of the pro-Brexit forces of chaos as their main strategy.

For them, the worse it gets, the better it gets.

Which means that relying on a ‘letting them tear themselves apart’ strategy risks running out of time to also stop Brexit itself.