Unfortunately as Battenberg is also a town in Germany Amber Rudd will call round tomorrow to destroy all any Battenberg's you have in your storage cupboards and existing stock will be expunged. Anybody caught eating one will be put on a list and sent to Milton Keynes.

And we have a PM who thought the same thing a few short months ago, but has now changed her mind so completely that she now wants as little to do with the EU as possible. We also have a leader of the opposition whose first reaction to the referendum result was to say that the PM should invoke Article 50 immediately, thereby making it more difficult to ask her about her dramatic volte face.

Fortunately, the Cake Lobby anticipated such a situation arising, and enacted Emergency Protocol 50, which states that if a foreign sounding cake is in danger from Rudd's Pantry Raids, its name will be Anglicized in order to avoid unfair destruction. Unfortunately, the alternative name it christened the cake with, The "British Puke Window", failed to capture the public's imagination.

I actually miss democracy, such fond memories of being able to express an opinion without being labelled a traitor and shot.

You should check the record. Unfortunately north east Somerset was not counted separately. We were infected by the votes of people in Bath. I’m pretty confident that the wise people of rural Somerset voted to leave whilst the urbanites in Bath voted to remain.

The plummeting pound is threatening UK households’ supplies of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream and Marmite spread, as Tesco, the country’s biggest supermarket, pulled dozens of products from sale online in a row over who should bear the cost of the weakening currency.

Unilever has demanded steep price increases to offset the higher cost of imported commodities, which are priced in euros and dollars, according to executives at multiple supermarket groups.

But Tesco signalled it would fight the rises, removing Unilever products from its website and warning that some of the items could disappear from shelves if the dispute dragged on. Other supermarkets have warned that they could follow suit.

Britain’s biggest grocer is led by Dave Lewis, a former Unilever “lifer” who ran the Anglo-Dutch company’s personal care business, overseeing brands that include Dove soap, Signal toothpaste and Tresemmé shampoo.

He had been seen as a potential successor to Paul Polman, chief executive of Unilever, before he jumped ship to Tesco two years ago.

The pound has fallen 17 per cent since Britain voted to leave the EU. Officials cautioned ahead of the June 23 referendum that a vote for Brexit would cause food prices to rise, a warning that Eurosceptic MPs have dismissed as “scaremongering”.

Mr Lewis signalled last week that he was limbering up for a fight with suppliers that tried to use the fall in sterling to push through price increases.

He said many of them had failed to pass on currency benefits to consumers when sterling was on the way up, and that he was “uncomfortable” with efforts to raise prices on the way down.

“That’s the way you have to negotiate,” said Bruno Monteyne, an analyst at Bernstein. “You have to draw a line in the sand and say, ‘OK, we’re going to delist you.’”

An executive at another British supermarket group said Unilever had threatened to cut off its entire supply unless it agreed to an across-the-board price increase of 10 per cent. He said the retailer would consider banishing Unilever products from its stores rather than comply with the ultimatum.

Unilever declined to comment on its negotiations with supermarkets.

Tesco said in a statement: “We are currently experiencing availability issues on a number of Unilever products. We always work to ensure customers get the best possible prices and we hope to have this issue resolved soon.”

An executive at another consumer goods manufacturer said Unilever would probably regard Tesco’s action as a negotiating tactic rather than a serious threat.

Mr Monteyne agreed that, while Tesco’s size gave it a strong negotiating position, the grocer would ultimately be forced to reach a compromise.

“Unilever is very big and Tesco can’t get around not working with them,” he said. “Dave Lewis might be wanting to show he’s not shying away from his former employer, but really, there’s much more at stake.”

Every time I think about this referendum, the media, the government (westminster), UKIP and the bigotry that has gripped this country I get unspeakably angry and ashamed to be British. Honestly disgusted by this country since this referendum started.

I stand by this earlier comment in light of Tesco's news.

We've utterly destroyed our future for an illusion of control.

Oh don't be so melodramatic. You're talking as if Brexit's World III or something. Everything will be fine and our new great PM will see to that. She'll make sure they don't sell us short. It's the best decision we ever made and I'm proud to have voted to leave.

Oh don't be so melodramatic. You're talking as if Brexit's World III or something. Everything will be fine and our new great PM will see to that. She'll make sure they don't sell us short. It's the best decision we ever made and I'm proud to have voted to leave.

Glad you're proud. I'm proud I have the capacity to reason and think for myself rather than let a load of rich tories & foreign billionaires do it for me. As long as you're happy having less money to spend, though.