I spent three hours glued to my TV set when BBC News was showing the UK parliamentary activity last Wednesday (March 27) evening. At the end, people – MPs, reporters, political correspondents, protesters – were wandering around in a daze, some spouting opinions, others moaning about the monumental mess the country seemed to be in, yet others prognosticating on what the morrow would bring. All of which gave rise to an eerie feeling of déjà vu, possibly in a biblical setting.

After sleeping on it, I woke up with the conviction that the UK Parliament at 10.30pm (GMT) on March 27 resembled the scene just prior to the destruction of Sodom. The dramatis personae worked out as follows: Lot (Abraham’s brother and, more relevant, grand uncle to Jacob!) was the Conservative Party.

Theresa May, promising to give up the party leadership in return for passage of her Brexit deal, would be Lot’s daughter, one of the two Lot ‘offered’ to the Sodom crowd to deflect them from attacking his ‘guests’.

Lot’s two ‘guests’ were, in fact, the two angels given the task of destroying Sodom, once Abraham’s repeated attempts to persuade Yahwe to accept the presence of a smaller and smaller number of ‘just men’ (10 at the end of the ‘negotiations’: Genesis Ch.18) to spare Sodom had failed. These two ‘guests’ can be subsumed into the complex personality of Mr Speaker, John Bercow.

The Sodom crowd on the rampage, trying to break down Lot’s door, would be the bulk of MPs, fighting for a great variety of ‘Brexits’. They were foiled by Mr Speaker, stricken by partisan ‘blindness’ so that they never found ‘the door’ or, rather, the key to ‘the door’ to Brexit.

Lot’s prospective sons-in-law, who would not listen to Lot’s warning on the imminent destruction of Sodom – they thought he was joking – would be the no-deal Brexiteers (the hard-core ERG and the DUP).

Lot flees from the wreck of Sodom with his daughters and his wife. The Conservative Party now seems to be turning away from the Brexit mess to decide on its next leader. But Lot’s wife takes one last look at Sodom and is turned into a pillar of salt. Could she not stand in for Jeremy Corbyn, wavering between a ‘Custom’s Union’, ‘Norway plus’ or a general election?