Anyone for Brexit?

I expect to be criticised for writing this.

On Monday the Government is meant to begin this country's most important international negotiations since William of Normandy passed through the Red Channel at Pevensey. It's in crisis following a catastrophic general election and doesn't even know whether it can command a parliamentary majority, in quest of which it is in discussions with a political party which for most of its life has been run by bigots, religious zealots and nutters. The Prime Minister's capacity and even her right to hold her office is being challenged. These are very important matters.

Yes, in London there has been an appalling and preventable disaster (which may say more about the exercise of independent British sovereignty than is politic to admit just now - a German building expert quoted on BBC 2's 'Newsnight' expressed amazement that we use such cladding materials in the UK as they are banned in that poor, benighted, EU-fixated yet remarkably strong and stable nation). Yes, the Government's and above all the Prime Minister's responses have been heartlessly inadequate. But there is no practical - or moral - reason why everything has to be put on hold because of Grenfell.

Perhaps, behind the scenes, the Government's negotiators with both the DUP (to secure a parliamentary majority) and the EU (to lose it again) are pressing ahead. If so, we should be told, so could the news media spend a moment on the subject? But I suspect that they aren't; that things really are at a standstill.

If so, do they need to be? Once the PM has paid obligatory and necessary attention to the Grenfell victims and their loved ones, can the ship of the modern state not sail on and deal with both the aftermath and vast implications of the fire and - I'll spit it out - the even greater matter of the nation's future?

I'm an unreformable opponent of the Conservative Party, the Prime Minister and the wrist-slitting absurdity of Brexit, but I'd still like a bit of clarity. Given the London tragedy the "Europeans" may be, as they have so often been, too polite to scoff at the amateurish, half-cocked chaos we so know and cling to, but that doesn't make it any less chaotic.