During the EU referendum I was always clear that there were stupid and awful things about the EU, but that leaving the highly complex process of quitting the world's largest trading bloc in the hands of a bunch of radically right-wing, ideologically depraved Tories would be a massive act of national self harm.

For all of the EU's faults, the UK benefitted massively from things like freedom of movement; the free trade in goods and services; the "rebate" (which left us contributing less than smaller economies like Italy); the Erasmus scheme; and having a significant influence over EU policy making.

After the Brexit vote the Tory rabble delivered all of the predicted chaos and self-harm.

Ending Freedom of Movement instantly devalued the British Passport from one of the most powerful in the world, to one so weak that it saw hundreds of thousands of Brits take advantage of their Irish ancestry to upgrade to an Irish passport, and retain their rights to free movement.

Quitting the Single Market and the Customs Union was akin to Britain imposing draconian economic sanctions on itself, which was an especially damaging move for small and medium sized exporters of goods and services who are now drowning in pointless paperwork and customs charges.

Many watched on with dismay as the UK quit the European Space Agency; dumped the Erasmus scheme; and drove the European Banking Authority, the European Monetary Authority, and the European Medicines Agency out of London to relocate to EU cities.

Then there's the way we've gone from rule-makers, to rule-takers, which is being highlighted by the EU's looming new policy of banning the terms "Veggie Burger" and "Veggie Sausage" under the influence of meat industry lobbyists.

The stated "reasoning" for this absurd language policing is that the terms veggie sausage and veggie burger are supposedly "confusing" to the public, but we've managed to survive decades with these terms in common use without anyone but the terminally stupid struggling to understand the meanings.

In fact, it's absurd to even try to cry "confusion", when clarity is fundamental to the marketability of these products. If people don't want meat in their diet, then it's actually vital for producers of vegetarian products to clearly indicate that their products are meat-free.

We know the capacity of human stupidity is nearly boundless, but what percentage of people are actually dumb enough to end up dismayed that the packet of clearly labelled "Vegetarian Sausages" that they found on the vegetarian isle of the supermarket doesn't contain meat?

The problem for the UK is that these new language restrictions will be applied to British products sold in the EU, and it will hardly make sense for UK producers to go to the expense of creating different production lines for different markets, so we're likely to adopt these utterly absurd language restrictions by default on any products that may end up on EU supermarket shelves (Quorn Sausages for example).

The use of our own language dictated to us at the behest of overseas meat industry lobbyists and the overseas politicians they have in their pockets, because we decided to remove ourselves from the process of influencing and creating EU laws.

It's hard not to notice that the radical right used exactly this kind of nonsense to fulminate against the EU ("they're banning bendy bananas", "they're banning prawn cocktail crisps" ...), yet when we're set to accept a load of absurdly stupid EU rules by default, because we rescinded our own power to object, suddenly the radical right - who are usually so vocal against the "language police" - don't have anything to say.