As a member of Their Lordships' House, I have carefully canvassed a good many well-informed British friends about the astonishing sequence of political events in that country's relations with the European Union to see if anything could be predicted from them. To review for those who have not followed it closely, the former Conservative prime minister, David Cameron, had the insane idea of holding a referendum to stay or leave, with nothing in between, having promised to produce "full-on tre...
