UKIP and an independent Tory gave Blair the sort of verbal whipping that he deserved. Well done to Nigel Farage and Richard Helm for saying, in no uncertain terms, what the rest of us are thinking. Stop giving away our money as a “fig leaf for your failures”.

How, for goodness sake, can complaining about Blair losing in a negotiation to our financial cost, be a sign of someone being stuck in the past? Blair said “It’s not 1945 … we’re not fighting them any more” as if that somehow explains why we should give the EU a single extra penny when CAP will not be reformed for at least three years…