Thus spoke Kenneth Clarke in the House of Commons yesterday in the debate on triggering Article 50 to leave the EU.

Having won a court battle for our Parliament to have say on the Brexit process, it now seems that most MPs won’t exercise their democratic responsibilities and vote according to their consciences and what they believe is right for the country. So who is going to take responsibility if Wonderland is not found down the March Hare’s hole? Will parliamentarians blame the people for (allegedly) instructing them to vote for a bad deal? Will the people blame the parliamentarians for giving them the job of deciding by a very narrow majority in what was an advisory referendum?

Only time will tell. Maybe, just maybe before the fateful day some months hence, MPs will wake up from their Dream of Alice and do what they are meant to do; act in the country’s best interest and not necessarily in a vain search for party contentment, for it is certain that will not be achieved.