The audience laughed at the very idea they might be working class

that at least it’d be a referendum with strong feelings either way about something that matters. Yep, Brexit.

Now, Brexit matters – of course – but I’m really not convinced many people actually cared about it until they made us. It’s an issue that has been crucial to Tory MPs and the odd newspaper magnate for as long as I can remember but, in terms of actual people, it was broadly an issue discussed in pubs but only by the bloke you don’t want to sit with, and obsessed over by cranks in southern coastal towns who weren’t comfortable with immigration for reasons they like to pretend are legitimate.

But now? Now? Oh, we all have to have strong opinions about it now don’t we? Even if that opinion is that you are sick of hearing about it. Of course you are, everyone is. They’ve made us care about a thing that they are obsessed with and they’ve made everything seem awful.

I’ve heard people say that there was a huge demand for a vote on leaving the EU based on the popularity of Ukip, but this popularity was based on a small number of single-interest fringe groups. Oh, and also whoever books guests for political programmes on the BBC.

If there’d been no vote in 2016, if David Cameron had never mentioned the possibility of having one, I find it hard to believe that there’d be a massive growing public groundswell for one now.

But there was, wasn’t there? Thanks David. Even if you are into leaving the EU (there are great, non-immigration based arguments – if you’re a socialist for example) you should be as furious as any Remainer that he did this on little more than a whim designed to strengthen his leadership.

They know, by the way. The Tory voters. They know that they’re the baddies.

I remember doing a gig in Chipping Norton, where David Cameron lives and was, at the time, the prime minister and their MP. The audience laughed at the very idea that they might be working class (most audiences claim to be working class wherever you go, in case you think they may be outliers). They were very nice people and big laughers except when they couldn’t understand my accent on one punchline.

The opening act was doing a routine about serial killers and asked if anyone if the crowd had a favourite one. For a couple of minutes they volunteered answers. Later on, the compere asked who in the room voted Conservative and nobody owned up. Nobody. In a room of about 200 people where, statistically, 116 of them did.

So, even in the absolute bedrock of the Conservative Party that is the Cotswolds, it’s still less acceptable to be a fan of David Cameron than it is to be a fan of Jeffrey Dahmer.

It’s not for me to say if that’s a reasonable viewpoint ... maybe we should have a referendum?