NO-ONE does the blame game like the Tories. And no-one can quite shift responsibility in the same way as this party in government.

Every day the papers are full of comments from the likes of Jacob Rees-Mogg blaming the “Remoaners” for disrupting the Brexit process and refusing to accept the democratic decision of the British people. Never has 52 per cent of the vote held such potent power – they certainly command much more democratic influence than the 62 per cent in Scotland who voted to stay in the EU – and that number is on the rise if the polls are anything to go by. Yet still the Brexit bus continues to gather speed as it hurtles towards the two-year time-up, turning this way and that as it works out its course on the hoof.

I’m sure it is this democratic support for Brexit that allows David Cameron to sleep at night. Using the soverign will of the people as an excuse for a major political mistake caused by your own and your party’s vanity takes the bad Brexit taste away and distracts from who is responsible for this mess in the first place. Originally suggested as a way of calming the hard-right factions in his party, Cameron’s lazy Remain campaign failed to gain traction without the courage of anyone’s convictions. Rather like the self-assured Head Boy who knows his name will be carved in oak wood when he leaves, (but in this case for all the wrong reasons), Cameron’s legacy will forever be the disastrous Brexit vote and no amount of Tory spin can change that. The term “compassionate Conservative” has surely got to be one of the greatest oxymorons of our time, and not a title Cameron deserves when the compassionate thing to do would have been to put some effort into saving Britain’s place in Europe.

Just last week the Daily Mail ran with the surprise headline that Boris Johnson had only backed Brexit to spite his bitter rival Cameron. Hardly news to anyone, I know, but illustrates again the farcical and painfully unnecessary nature of the whole Brexit process. The British public has been sold a pig in a poke. The support for Brexit has surely got to be one of the biggest double bluffs of all time – take back your country, cry Rees-Mogg and Johnson, and we will free you from the shackles of the EU, we will take you out of poverty and hardship and introduce you to the real beauty of capitalism. Jacob has even compared leaving the EU to famous turning points in British history such as the Battle of Trafalgar and the signing of the Magna Carta. Rees-Mogg and Johnson are the masters of empire rhetoric and it is like catnip to certain voters.

But the establishment played a clever trick – persuade the electorate that a vote to leave the EU is an anti-establishment protest vote, while installing the very epitome of elite Britain as the main champions. Rather like Trump in America, the voters were duped but still seem to be happy at the outcome.

Not so of course in Scotland where the electorate saw through this farce and dreamt of other options for our country’s future. In the chaos of Brexit, the voice of reason from our First Minister, Mike Russell and the Scottish Government has provided hope and the possibility of another way through this mess.

Meanwhile, back at Westminster Theresa May takes a daily lashing for the ongoing Brexit circus with Boris as the evil ringmaster, calling the shots. She’s also the main blame figure behind the dreadful General Election result at the recent snap election, a vote she was persuaded to call by others in her party.

As the night of the long knives continues in the halls of Parliament, Theresa May knows her time is coming to an end and it’s painful to watch, but she shows no signs of leaving the sinking ship.

Of course, according to Brexit Tory supporters, it’s all the EU’s fault. If they weren’t so stubborn about borders in Ireland, the single market, and Britain’s debt to the EU then this whole process would be much easier. All this red tape is getting in the way of their plan to stand on our own two feet. Some Tories have even suggested that it would be far better for everyone if Ireland opted out of the EU. This has been met with rightful derision and scorn in the Irish parliament who watch horrified from the across the water as Britain crashes into “splendid isolation”.

Someone, at some point is going to have to be the grown-up in this settlement, acknowledge blame for the break-up and accept that they might lose half their property and their vintage vinyl collection. Who this is, remains to be seen.”