If you scratch the political itch in Britain at the moment you're likely to end up with a pulsating, weeping wound.
The temperature in the country is at boiling point as they prepare to vote later tonight on whether they want to stay as a member of the European Union in the debate that's become known as Brexit.
The House of Lords even heard from our very own Winston Peters on the topic on Black Friday last month. He was invited there by the hard line anti-immigration United Kingdom Independence Party, known as UKIP, which hasn't exactly endeared itself to the great British unwashed with some injudicious outbursts from some of its members.
One saying that a political rival of Sri Lankan descent wasn't British enough to be in Parliament, his family had only been in the country since the 70s despite the fact that he'd been born in London. Another Kent councillor, describing herself as outspoken, confiding the only people she had problems with were Negroes, and she didn't know why, which simply confirmed her ignorance.