Behold the future of Brexit Britain — a handkerchief in Washington’s pocket

One of the most famous and emphatic statements of Papal infallibility was made by St Augustine (Augustine of Hippo) when, in the context of the Pelegian heresy that engulfed the Catholic Church in the first decade of the 5th century, he proclaimed, ‘Roma locuta est, causa finita est’ (‘Rome has spoken, the case is closed’).