Sadly, Brexit is the gift that keeps on giving

Another day, another Brexit fiasco.

Brexit is all around us – and is a political monster taking out all things in its wake

Whether it’s chlorinated chicken or the Irish border, every new dawn brings another tiresome, dispiriting controversy.

The row over the Irish border will drag into next week, setting the Scottish Government and Welsh Assembly leadership against the DUP in Northern Ireland.

It follows the debate over a second independence referendum, arguments over medicines, trade deals, immigration, intelligence sharing etc etc.

On Friday, Philip Hammond signalled a new transitional approach to Britain’s departure from the EU.

You remember Hammond? Tall grey fellow who in his day job is supposed to be running the country’s finances.

Despite this all-important role, he is now positioned as the Government’s Brexit architect.

As such, he has gone from someone who could walk up and down Princes Street unmolested to one of the most recognisable political faces in the country. Because Brexit is everything and everywhere, a political monster taking out all in its wake.

Like his boss Theresa May, Hammond actually backed the Remain campaign.

Whether this was based on an unshakeable belief in the European project, we’ll never know.

Maybe, like many of us, he foresaw the draining consequences involved in unmeshing the UK from the Union and concluded it just wasn’t worth it.

Maybe he saw Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage and Kate Hoey standing in one side of the room and instinctively bolted as quickly as possible for the opposite end.

Whatever the reason, like the PM and leader of the Opposition Jeremy Corbyn, his political principles on what we were told was the biggest political question for a generation, appear to be eminently flexible.

Millions of people who voted Remain have been abandoned by their political representatives.

Derided as Remoaners, the pro-EU Tories and the Labour leadership want nothing to do with these millions of the electorate.

Despite this, an opinion poll last week suggested that in a rerun of the Euro referendum, the Remain side would prevail by 54 per cent to 46.

It is not undemocratic to refuse to accept it as a fait accompli.

And it’s certainly the duty of voters to question the ease and enthusiasm with which certain senior politicians switched sides.