michael adams wrote

The UK urgently needs friends.

Like hell it does. It has always had plenty and hasn’t lost
any of those that matter by deciding to leaving the EU.

It needs to be mending relations,

Not even possible now with the EU.

applying soothing diplomatic balm to wounded allies.

Not even possible now with the EU.

Instead, Nigel Farage turns up in swaggering pomp, crassly insulting
members of the European parliament, reinforcing for a continental audience
the impression that English politics, once an exemplar of democratic
moderation,

Even sillier than you usually manage.
Watch question time sometime.

has degenerated into the pursuit of football hooliganism by other means.

Wota terminal ****wit.

Rafael Behr Guardian

Wota surprise.