A Mad Max-style dystopia would be the best sort of dystopia’ [Image: Moviestore/Rex/Shutterstock].

He knows he’s got the worst job in the government and he knows he’s doing about as badly at it as possible. So we get this load of old tripe:

Britain will not be “plunged into a Mad Max-style world borrowed from dystopian fiction” after it leaves the EU, the Brexit secretary has said.

David Davis said the UK wanted to lead a “global race to the top” in rights and standards not, as some feared, a “competitive race to the bottom”.

British business could “never be cheaper than China” and must focus instead on product and service quality.

He also suggested a Brexit deal by the end of 2018 was “well on the cards”.

Let’s balance that with a healthy amount of what we know:

Of course, the mention of dystopia has got some journalistic heads spinning. The Guardian spun out a whole article on the possibilities.

Here’s a shorter version:

One thing’s for sure: The last kind of Brexit we can expect is a good one.

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