June 24 I just listened to Cameron’s exit speech in the Outlander. It reminded me of several other momentus pieces of news I have heard first via the car radio. The space shuttle disaster, the Queen mum’s death and, erm, Man City winning the premiership!

It feels very much like the morning after the night before… Trivial matters like cars should perhaps take a back-seat. However, life goes on and Britain has a new challenge to face.

Quite how the British car industry is going to cope with the news remains to be seen. But we have become a great automotive nation again and I don’t see that suddenly changing.

I shall travel to London today pondering what will happen next. The British public has spoken..