WE’VE had more than we can stand of all the slush and mush which has engulfed public conversation since the Brexit vote.

During the campaign, the government launched Project Fear to try to scare us into voting Remain, or else we’d be invaded by plagues of locusts and heading for World War III.

Now that Cameron and his gang have lost – thankfully – they are regaling us with Project Teary-Eyeball, a vast, mawkish lament for our having voted to get out of the EU. It resembles the creepy hysterics which broke out everywhere after the death of Princess Diana.

To listen to the heartbroken sentimentalists in Project Teary-Eyeball, you would think that our loving European family, our ideal international community, had broken up. How are we going to buy and sell? Will we be able to go to Spain for our hols? Will I need to get a new passport? I even read in one of the Sunday papers that we might be expelled from the Eurovision Song Contest.

AllI can say is that it would have been worth voting Leave to secure that result alone. But of course they won’t chuck us out.

The EU never was that ideal cuddly family which the infantilised supporters of Remain are claiming. The EU always has been an unaccountable, unscrupulous, corrupt, undemocratic bureaucracy with the declared aim of turning itself into a superstate. It is run by an unelected gang of commissioners – just like the USSR under the commissars.

It is monstrously inefficient, hugely overtaxed and over-regulated. The Common Agricultural Policy means we have to pay a whole lot more for our food than we would otherwise and the Fisheries Policy has all but destroyed our fishing industry. But what about trade and the EU free market? Well, what about it? There is no free trade. The EU is explicitly the enemy of free trade. It is a protectionist customs union which slaps excessive tariffs on its members to prevent them from trading with the wider world.

Besides, we have a massive, unfavourable trade imbalance with the EU as every year we buy much more from them than we sell them. Ah, but it’s kept the peace since 1945.

No it hasn’t. The EU has no army. The peace has been kept by NATO.

But what about the generous grants which the EU bestows upon British regions – the North East, for example? Yes, there are such grants, but Britain is receiving them out of the £350million we pay into the EU coffers every week. And while we’re on the subject of money, do remember that the fraudulent EU Commission has not even presented audited accounts for sixteen years. If you or I had operated our financial affairs in such a cavalier style, we’d be in clink now.

The most absurd, bleeding heart example I’ve heard coming out of Project TearyEyeball was reported to me by my wife. She has for years been associated with a natural history group which records butterfly numbers and varieties. Last week, she received a frantic email from them asking, “Who’s going to look after our butterflies now we’ve voted for Leave?”

The Remainers are like those wimpy children who cling to nurse, for fear of meeting something worse. We don’t need this Fagin’s gang, For centuries before we joined the wretched EU club, we ruled the greatest empire the world has ever seen.

Are we little Englanders? Don’t be daft.

The world is our oyster.