Given a chance to cheer Tories economic failure, Hunt is nowhere to be seen

Hang out the flags. Tuesday marked the third anniversary of the UK leaving the EU. Glory day. Correction. Glory days. What we always wanted. Well, some of us. Increasingly just a few of us.

Now is not the time for declinism. As Jeremy Hunt recently told us in his Bloomberg speech, we should stop talking the UK down. People like the banker and former Conservative donor Guy Hands should stop being so bloody miserable and calling Brexit an unmitigated disaster and start cheering its triumphs. So GDP is down 4%. Big deal. It could so easily have been 5 or 6%. Why cant people focus on that for a change?

In any case, making the country poorer was a symbol of success. A sign that we werent just influenced by money. We had a higher calling. You couldnt put a price on sovereignty. And why were people making such a fuss about the NHS being at crisis point now that loads of its staff had gone back to their home countries in the EU? Surely it was far better for there to be fewer nurses, provided they were all British? And stop being so morbid and moaning that your mother died on a hospital trolley. Celebrate the fact that your dad is still alive. Food prices going up? Excellent news. Hopefully that will put a stop to childhood obesity.