There is a moment in Darkest Hour when Gary Oldman’s Churchill is considering Europe’s defence against Nazi Germany. Lord Halifax, played by Stephen Dillane, bursts out: “Europe is lost!”

I think we can now say “America is lost”. It’s in our faces every day.

But Britain is not lost.

Not yet.

According to the polls, 33% of British voters believe that the only thing that matters is to vote Reform and Stop the Boats. If we can do that, then turning the United Kingdom into our own version of USA 2026 is an acceptable price.

There is nothing anyone can say to change people’s minds on this. Have you tried?

There is no future in pointing out that Nigel Farage wants to sell the NHS to Corporate America, that he would see Russia take over Ukraine. He would dismiss any “quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing”).

The Reform supporter does not accept that finally Getting Brexit Done would reduce the bottom tier of British society to the kind of poverty not seen since the days of Dickens.

They are not swayed – not open to reason. They believe only that everything will be better once we Stop the Boats!

So, I am not going to bother with any of the hackneyed opinions you can hear any Friday night on Question Time. But just in case you are one of those people who stops reading when something gets too depressing for words, may I suggest there is one last hope?

And it really is our last hope – if we blow this, Britain really will be lost. As history has shown, once a country submits to Fascism, there can be no peaceful return to democracy.

Our last hope is this: That every political party opposed to the right-wing agenda agrees to bury their differences and form a Grand Coalition to oppose Reform UK.

They would all have to agree to divide up the country and, between them, put up just one candidate in each constituency to oppose Reform.

Because, although Reform has 33% of the vote, Reform has only 33% of the vote.

There’s a historical precedent: In 1933 Hitler became Chancellor of Germany on 33% of the vote. He won because his opposition failed to get organised and present a united front against him. In effect, they split the anti-fascist vote.

And so, 80million people died – and if it had not been for American magnanimity and the Marshall Plan, post-war Germany would have been condemned to the sort of dark ages that Russia has lived through over the past 35 years.

Britain’s last chance election could be as much as four-and-a-half years away. But in political terms, that is not so very long. What would it take for the Greens to reach out to Labour? For Labour to talk to the LibDems? The Tories to decide which way to jump…

Yes, there will have to be secret meetings. “Feelers” will have to be put out. The whole rotten system, which has hamstrung British Politics for generations, will need to be stretched until it fractures and flies apart.

But would that be worth doing? To Save Britain?