Where to now?
As the government implodes and MPs swig champagne as inflation figures show food prices rising 14%, we need to stop asking ourselves how we got here.
The question is how to get out of this mess.
The first thing Labour should do is to refuse to commit to any spending or taxes until they have seen the books. Secondly if they win an election they should publish the Treasury’s assessment of the damage Brexit has caused, there will be one.
Then ask the OBR to report within a month on how much growth would boom if the UK re-negotiated the TCA, allowed more immigration, reformed the utilities, invested more, got apprenticeships working properly, became attractive for Foreign Investment again and followed EU rules and regs.
Then just do it. None of that would cost much, windfall taxes on banks, utilities and energy companies would pay for all that and much more.
Because there is no money to spend on much else, not now and not for many years. the Tories haven’t just emptied the coffers they have stopped them being refilled by growth.
Growth is nearly everything now, not madcap not existent fantasy trickle down growth, boring supply side growth. Years of it.
Without it the future is grim.
Economics, trade and Brexit, not necessarily in that order but the dog always comes first.