Bond traders, Trots and Mumsnetters must unite against Farage’s mob | Paul Mason

If the politician does amass his 100,000 racists and xenophobes and march on the supreme court, I will be there, standing against him. Who will stand with me?

It wasn't the doomy medical diagnosis that caused F Scott Fitzgerald's mental breakdown. It was moment the doctors told him he was going to be OK. "After about an hour of solitary pillow-hugging," wrote the novelist in 1936, "I began to realize that for two years my life had been a drawing on resources that I did not possess, that I had been mortgaging myself physically and spiritually up to the hilt."

Come the day of the supreme-court judgment on Brexit, the progressive part of Britain could be forgiven if it succumbed to a Fitzgerald-style "crack-up". Nigel Farage will mobilise 100,000 racists and xenophobes to intimidate the court; the justices will probably ignore them and uphold the high-court verdict. But it is beginning to feel as if liberal democracy in Britain is, too, "drawing on resources it does not possess".

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