YET again those pollster luvvies got it wrong, proudly declaring that Remain would triumph as late as 10.10pm last Thursday only to look rather foolish come dawn.

But forget your YouGovs and those sickly 'poll of polls', the real winner in this race to be proved accurate was in fact the Worcester News.

Back in February we asked our readers to indulge in an online EU poll, leading to a massive response with just under 54 per cent backing Leave.

When the real vote occurred 54,289 city voters took part and 53.6 per cent supported Brexit in Britain's great bellwether city - surprise, surprise.

If only bookies the length of Britain and Nigel Farage had gone to us first, eh?

* THE Government and its Opposition appears truly broken, but at Worcester City Council a different type of awkward wreckage is taking place.

During a council meeting on Tuesday Tory Lucy Hodgson's knackered old chair started to come apart, perfectly illustrating the state of the union post-Brexit.

"The result of a few years of austerity and neglect, I suspect," quipped the Mayor of Worcester Paul Denham.

* ALL of our MEPs might well find themselves jobless soon enough but UKIP's James Carver, cock-a-hoop after Brexit, has another reason to smile.

The Worcester-based politician, who celebrated last weekend at Glastonbury, lumped some cash on Leave at 13/5 and was able to gleefully collect his winnings.

* THEY dubbed it the biggest vote of your life - but for many folk it appears the pressure over such an historic choice sent them deranged.

A remarkable 9,084 people nationwide - enough to fill Worcester's golden University Arena more than four times over - ticked BOTH boxes during last week's referendum.

Confused, you bet.

* SOME 27,000 county people have signed this wacky petition to do the blasted referendum all over again, but where those signatures have come from makes truly odd reading.

Fiercely Eurosceptic West Worcestershire, now described as no less than an 'ultra-safe Conservative seat' by polling bigwigs, has somehow had 6,525 people demand a re-run.

That's significantly more than Worcester, twice the rate of the Wyre Forest and higher than any other part of the county.

Why?

* THERESA May is the racing favourite for Downing Street, which will please the likes of Police and Crime Commissioner John Campion given that the two are rather chummy.

Will Mrs May be inviting him into Chequers any time soon?

I'll let you into a secret - the new PM-in-waiting is known to be a Worcester News fan too (see above).