Brexitdisaster was the Twitter hashtag that greeted news of the mass redundancies at P&O Ferries this week.

The leading operator of ships between Dover and Calais brutally made 800 workers redundant over a video-call on Thursday after organising for cheap agency staff to replace the sacked employees when the three-minute pre-recorded message went out.

Naturally, Remainiacs could not resist blaming the crisis on our exit from the EU, for no obvious reason whatsoever.

They ignored entirely the pandemic-sized hole that Covid has left in P&O Ferries’ finances. The business made a £100 million loss year on year because of coronavirus travel restrictions. (I can’t imagine French President Emmanuel Macron’s ludicrous omicron ban on the English travelling to France before Christmas will have helped much either).

Pro-EU fanatics also disregarded the fact that P&O Ferries is ultimately owned by Dubai-based giant DP World, which only last week announced “record results”, with sales up 25 per cent to $10.8 billion.

Run by Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem, DP World is reportedly spending more than £100 million to be title sponsor for the 2022 European Golf Tour.

A foreign-based company seeking to replace British workers with cheaper labour is not a consequence of us leaving the EU. In fact, it’s the sort of behaviour that caused millions of people to vote for Brexit in the first place.

More than that, one of the ways the Government might now be able to penalise DP World actually comes thanks to the referendum result – since it can take away lucrative contracts to operate two of the UK’s planned freeport schemes.

But you won’t hear many Remainers admitting to that.