That’s how the Irish EU Commissioner Phil Hogan has described yours truly, and Messrs Rees- Smug and slimy Farage. Bloody cheek!

He suggested to our glorious leader we should just be ignored. For good measure he added that the European commission president, Jean-Claude Juncker, had said the EU would not damage its “greatest achievement” of the internal market “just to save the UK from the consequences of its own silliness”.