Too much has already needed to be written about the way that the Leave case has been prosecuted in shrill rhetoric, while Remain’s case has been more dowdy prose. Arguing for change is always more exciting than advocating the status quo.

Yet what is Leave’s case?

There are Eurosceptics – admittedly not the cynical arrivistes like Boris Johnson – who have been advocating Brexit for years, if not decades. So why, when it comes to it, is the Vote Leave camp no clearer about what Brexit will look like? They have failed utterly to tell us how we will make our way once we leave the EU. We could copy Norway, or Switzerland, or Canada – to name but three – we are told, but which?

I know the terrain if we vote to stay in the EU. I am utterly unclear and perplexed what path we follow if we leave.

Eventually our economy will probably right itself. As Danny Finkelstein argues compellingly today, ironically it may turn out to rely on the sort of low wages, insecurity and immigration which politically motivates people to vote for change. Life, and the way we make a living, will continue.

But what tumult will we have to go through to get there? And why aren’t we told what course we will steer instead? Instead, those who ask these impertinent questions are told that we are prosecuting Project Fear. Or that we are unpatriotic, belittling the potential to make Britain great again. Or that – worst of all – people want to take control and get their country back.

What bunkum.

How is it scare-mongering to point out the flimsiness, the uncertainty of the case made? To say that the vast majority of those awful experts, like economists and doctors – all of whom have as much say and stake as anyone else – think on balance Remain is better for the economy and the NHS?

How is it unpatriotic to argue that we shouldn’t run from the world, that we are a leading nation of the world and we treasure our unique position as a bridge between the US and Europe, enjoying favoured status in both camps? That we fought a war to bring peace to our continent which we now want to guard jealously? Should the patriot should pursue a course of action backed by none of our allies, but endorsed by Vladimir Putin?

And as for taking control; regaining our sovereignty from unelected elites? Is Leave calling to scrap the House of Lords or the pooling of sovereignty our four nations have made over the course of centuries?

If there is a failure in the Remain camp it is the failure to properly address and answer the charge that Brexit is a magic want to ‘get our country back’. As Howard Jacobson eloquently put it on Newsnight last night:

I have a great deal of sympathy for people who live in areas where they sometimes don’t hear their own language spoken. I don’t think we should talk about racists the way we sometimes do. But when we hear people saying I want my country back, that’s terrifying. It wasn’t that long ago when we saw what people saying “I want my country back” led to.