SO THE ghost ship Theresa looks as if she is finally drifting onto the rocks after months of her crew jumping overboard and constantly trying to hole her below the water line.

All these brave souls, led by the likes of David Davies, Boris Johnson, Jacob Rees-Mogg et al, appear every now and again to stick the knife into their captain and then run away and hide in the shadows. The little known Dominic Raab, in my view, is about the worst of them all as he was appointed by the Prime Minister to negotiate Brexit and he accepted the ministerial salary that taxpayers fund to do the job. He then came back from Brussels with a crap deal that he has supposed to have been running and promptly resigns, blaming everyone else for not negotiating what he really wants and the mess we are all now in.

He should be forced to refund every penny of his ministerial salary as should every one of these people who have put self-interest in front of what is best for the country from day one of this pantomime. I have never seen and heard politics and politicians so discredited and out of touch with reality.

We were all told what were obviously a pack of lies at the time of the Brexit referendum which, bizarrely, no one really seriously challenged. Now lots of people who peddled these lies seem to be able to articulate what they don’t want, but not many seem to be able to explain what they do want, or, more importantly, what they can deliver by way of a deal with the EU which is actually more to the point.

We elect politicians to represent us; that’s what democracy is about. But in return they should be expected to take decisions for the greater good, not their own self-preservation of self-aggrandisement. Leaving the EU is not some TV reality show or soap opera, but that’s exactly what some of these clowns we’ve elected have turned it into.

And because they can’t put aside their personal prejudices, we may even end up with another referendum. This will solve nothing and take us nowhere but they seem to believe it will get them off the hook for their current serial incompetence, which is the main reason some are now pushing for it. Will we just keep voting until we get a different answer to the last time, or will it be ‘best of three’ or ‘best of five’?

To be honest, it’s hard to know what the right answer to this issue is any more, there is so much misinformation being peddled on all sides of this woeful debate.

It would be interesting to know how many of our politicians have actually read (and I mean properly read) this 600 page Theresa horror show, and, more importantly, how many actually understand it? It is written like every other EU document I have ever had the misfortune to read – in complex legalese for the most part.

It is technocratic EU babble, and you have to understand (and have in front of you) hundreds of existing EU Articles and Directives to really grasp it, as every part of it is referenced back to these documents, regulations and agreements. Only a very few people that I have ever met would have the intellectual capacity, or patience, to actually really get or understand this kind of document and none of them are politicians. So how on earth can this be expected to be translated or distilled into something even remotely useful to the electorate to help us decide whether to back this current deal or not?

It’s impossible, which means the ‘summary document’, or maybe propaganda, used in any referendum would end up meaning all things to all men and actually add absolutely no value to a debate in the real world as opposed to the fantasy land Westminster seems to have become.

And remember this is just the framework document to get us out of the EU – we haven’t even started on any trade deals or the detail of what these would actually mean to farmers, fishermen and everyone else whose lives are going to be totally consumed by this mess.

In my experience, the devil is always in the detail. For example, the Beef Efficiency Scheme was a great idea in principle, but look at the mess it is in because the detail of its implementation was complete bollocks. The Ewe Hogg Scheme is another one. I argued against it from day one because even the principle of it was nonsense. Look at it now, totally unworkable, impractical and utterly useless.

Now just imagine multiplying these two wee nothing schemes worth two fags and a balloon in comparison to the whole Government budget influenced by EU regulation (and therefore by Brexit) and you will start to get a flavour of the real mess we are in and the scale of the problem we face.

The really scary thing about this situation now is that no-one has any idea where it will end up. Not the PM, not Jean-Claude Junker, not even someone as powerful in Europe as Angela Merkel. Everyone has an opinion but no-one is running this thing. We truly are a ship drifting without power in a Force 10 gale heading for the rocks and I’m sorry to say there isn’t a lifeboat in sight.

I’m usually pretty bullish when times are challenging and don’t mind taking chances. However, I’ve usually had a look at some options and been able to get my head round the risks involved in various decisions I might make. This time it’s impossible to get my head round any opportunity because I can’t quantify or properly assess the risk.

In such circumstances the natural reaction is to do nothing, or continue what you are doing, hoping it will be ‘alright on the night’. To be honest, neither of these options are very attractive either, so for now there is much to consider while we all watch and wait for these bloody politicians to do their job. Trying to run a business that needs long term strategic decisions doesn’t lend itself to this political chaos. It’s not like the City of London where you can lose on three deals and go in to bat again and win on four. Farming needs stability, certainty and cash, and at the moment all are in short supply.

Maybe Santa Claus really does exist and will turn up with something. To be honest, that looks about our best bet!!