Last year, I wrote this post. Worrying about a vortex of ever lower prosperity and policy rationality. It was in the aftermath of the EU referendum in the UK, which can be taken to be a vote against immigration and globalisation. That is the perceived grievance. The wrong-headed sop is the withdrawal from the deep, free trade structure of the Single Market, leading to immigration controls, non-tariff barriers restricting our trade in services, reducing prosperity and the feasible size of public services. Next round the grievances are felt even more acutely, and the policy sops worsen.