Evidence? The amazing about-turn by one of May's advisers and Government insider- Lord Adonis. In an interview with The Guardian on the penultimate day of 2017, he describes a picture of a political system that is consumed by an impossible goal of securing a BREXIT that is good for the UK economy, and a civil service at war with its governing masters and mistresses. Good government has essentially broken down in the face of BREXIT and as Adonis states: “There is very low morale in Whitehall because almost no civil servants agree with the policy of the government. I do not think there has ever been a period when the civil service has been more disaffected with the government it serves. I do not know a single senior civil servant who thinks that BREXIT is the right policy, and those that are responsible for negotiating it are in a desperate and constant argument with the government over the need to minimise the damage done by the prime minister’s hard-BREXIT stance." He continues: “It is an open secret that no one will go and work in David Davis’s department [DexEU], and Liam Fox is regarded as a semi-lunatic. The only departments that have retained their institutional integrity during this crisis are the Foreign Office and the Treasury, but they have been sidelined in the BREXIT negotiations which is a huge mistake because that is where most of the brains and ability in Whitehall is located." Adonis is optimistic that a new referendum will take place to end the BREXIT nonsense and he says “Once that happens, the whole issue will be decided by 10 or 15 votes in the House of Commons. It will all come down to Dominic Grieve [the Tory MP who led the recent rebellion in favour of a final vote by MPs] and his friends, and I hope they do the decent thing for the country as they did before Christmas. In which case we can have a referendum on the final deal – between accepting the deal and staying in the EU– and we can put this national nightmare behind us. That is my strategy for the next year.” Do help the process by circulating, as many of you have done already, to your colleagues and friends: https://www.change.org/p/uk-parliament-stop-brexit-dfdb24bd-54b0-4541-8d67-5d1242ea1ce4?recruiter=622263122&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=share_petition&utm_term=petition_signer_receipt