Cheer up! The Greek crisis shows you were right all along

I don’t know whether the joy on the right was worse than the preening on the left last night but as the result of the Greek referendum swept across social media I found myself thinking that any result so cheerfully welcomed by Marine Le Pen, Nigel Farage, Jeremy Corbyn and Sinn Fein can’t be thought altogether cheerful.

Of course you needn’t judge a cause by its followers but when a cause is followed and endorsed by such a collection of rogues, crooks and cranks it’s wise to begin to wonder about it.

All this glee seemed especially shabby since, really, it didn’t really seem to be about Greece at all. The Greeks were useful and even, in one sense, vital to the process but the point of it all was to demonstrate that, whatever your views and wherever you sat on the political spectrum, You Were Right All Along. About Everything. The Greeks, the poor little doomed, plucky, Greeks served as a proxy for self-serving arguments closer to home.