Food shortages and civil unrest were not on the ballot paper.
But Boris Johnson appears determined to lead the entire UK into exactly that disaster.
Leaked papers now show exactly how bad it will be to leave the EU on the worst possible terms.
Officials warn of meltdown, ports in chaos, gaps on supermarket shelves.
Police are spending money the country doesn’t have to prepare a backlash.
Fuel could become a flashpoint as panic sets in, refineries struggle and possibly even close.
Jobs could be lost in their thousands, strikes will be inevitable.
The border in Ireland will become the obvious, hard frontier that Brexiteers airily promise cannot happen.
Those doom-laden prospects are exactly those that Johnson is prepared to impose if he doesn’t magically convince every other country to fold and let him have his way.
Any pretence of principle among the Tory leadership vanished a very long time ago.
Now it’s just flat-out populism, blatantly outrageous posturing and idealogical arrogance.
Incredibly, Brexit chief Michael Gove tried to play it all down yesterday but only managed to confirm fears.
It’s not that bad, he suggested, these are just worst-case scenarios and the government are trying really hard now.
The UK is split from top to bottom on the constitution, European and British.
Parliament is paralysed and the leader of the opposition is struggling to put himself forward as a viable alternative.
The UK cannot afford to continue to sleepwalk into a disaster laid out in the black and white of an official document.
MPs need to see sense and step back from allowing these warnings to become a reality.
