The train has left the platform.

Well, there we have it.  BREXIT means BREXIT.  Well, that is not the words used today by the prime minister.  She said we are leaving the European Union.  And with that will be the opportunity to live in the bigger world. 

Nicola Sturgeon and Tim Farron summed up the Remain case today.  The Scottish FM was the usual SNP command stuff, “the people of Scotland didn’t vote for this”, despite the fact six of her SNP MSPs colleagues and 36% of SNP voters did just that and voted in favour of leaving the EU.  Which, when you think about it, is a phenomenally high number given the rhetoric the FM pumped out before the EU referendum.

But it was Tim Farron, the Liberal Democrats leader, who took the biscuit with his almost hysterical position.

He said the PM's speech was about an "extreme version of Brexit" and claimed it was the "Theft of democracy”.  Er, maybe I missed something but I think we had a democratic vote that asked one question.  Do you want to remain in the European Union, Yes or No.  That’s what democracy is.  And the fact that people listened to but rejected Tim Farrons views doesn’t mean it is any less democratic.  But sadly the Lib Dems are becoming a bit of a footnote.

Of course he argues, as does his predecessor, Nick Clegg, that people didn’t vote to leave the single market as if they didn’t know what they were voting for.  In other words, they think the UK electorate are not capable of thinking through issues and taking a decision.  Says a lot about what they think about the intellectual capacity of the people of these islands.  It also says much about what they consider to be democratic.

But both Sturgeon and Farron are sadly negative.  Inward looking.  Cornered in the box they have put themselves in of their own volition.  And frankly, any outsider would have looked and them today and said, “excuse me, don’t you realise the train has left the station?”