What all this is telling us is that the wrong processes have been used from the outset to try to resolve this matter and accommodate all views in how we relate to Europe in one course of action, one strategy, behind which we can all unite.
So let us even now take up this challenge whilst it is not too late; whilst we still have the chance and let us see this debacle for what it is – a call to do things differently.
That is the only conclusion to be drawn therefore as we review the situation and see the fragments. And the question is not how one fragment beats or steals a march on another fragment but on how the fragments unite.
The Emporer's New Clothes 