Tim Montgomerie's wrong - Cameron's toast, whatever the referendum result

Times columnist and Leave supporter Tim Montgomerie says that if Britain votes Leave, Cameron must go - Cameron has already said he will. But, says Tim, if Remain win, Tory Party Brexiteers must accept Cameron's right to stay on as leader until he chooses to step down. But Cameron has made the second option impossible: he has buried his political future under a vast avalanche of mendacity so brazen, so nauseatingly obvious that surely even the most craven "loyalist" back-bench suck-ups must realise that for him - even as he travels to Brussels to have the Iron Cross, the Croix de Guerre and the Lord Haw Haw Memorial Medal for Services to Unelected Foreign Bureaucrats pinned to his chest - the war is well and truly over. This, after all, is a man who has either made the following claims about what will happen if Britain frees itself from the EU's enervating death-grip, or has omitted to correct such claims made by his Remain campaign supporters:

Many of us will lose our jobs (the estimate started at 3,000,000 but has gone down a bit in the face of sustained laughter)
There will be a year-long recession
Cameron's failed EU "renegotiation" means we're dealing with a "reformed" EU
The economy will contract by 6%, leaving us "permanently poorer"
The NHS will be badly hit
Access to cutting-edge medicines might be affected
House prices will collapse by 10% - 18% by 2018
The value of the pound will plummet
Our universities won't be able to attract the best students
Terrorists will flock to Britain
We'll be less able to defend ourselves against attacks
Nobody will trade with us (the world's 5th largest economy)
Families will be £4,300 a year worse off
Britain's wildlife will suffer (no - I'm not kidding)
America will refuse to sign a trade deal with us (said the man who won't be president in eight months' time)
ISIS and Al Qaeda leaders would welcome a Brexit vote

On and on it goes - one lie, one farcical exaggeration piled on top of the other until the whole malodorous, tottering mountain of political ordure threatens to collapse, covering Cameron and Osborne and Tory turncoats like Phillip Hammond, Theresay May and Sajid Javid in a pile of their own filth. Even if it doesn't, and they somehow manage to keep the whole sordid edifice upright until the day of the vote, they'll all be smelling pretty damned rank for a very long time. While the lesser lights might - just might - salvage their careers out of this unholy, mendacious mess, it's inconceivable that Lord Snooty and Flashman will manage to: incredibly well-paid jobs in the EU and the City beckon, and good riddance to both of them. Even the Conservative Party - which, over the years, has displayed an almost infinite capacity for tolerating lies and insults and bullying from its own leaders - has its limits. Whatever happens on 23rd June, the two lying, bullying, arrogant posh boys currently in charge will have stretched Tory tolerance past breaking point. They'll have won the battle, but they'll have sacrificed themselves for the interests of a bunch of foreigners who really couldn't give a stuff about this country or its annoying, bloody-minded people.

The EU is doomed - socially, politically, and economically. But we have a chance to get off the train before it smashes into the buffers. As Andy Murray tweeted about another referendum ' "Let's do this!" Whether we do or not, Cameron and Osborne are through.

I'll leave you with a chart showing the EU funding received by many of those organisations which have been most vocal in urging us to stay on the Oblivion Express:

To their increasingly desperate, clamorous entreaties to stay, I would simply respond with a direct quotation from one of my relatives: "D'ye think I came up the Clyde yesterday wi' me arse hangin' oot me troosers?" - which I think roughly translates as: "Thanks awfully - but I rather think I won't, actually."