Finally, a word that encapsulates all political catastrophes: Omnishambles

Take the Government’s handling of, say, the health service or the children’s referendum and one word springs to mind: Omnishambles.

Coined in hit British political sitcom The Thick of It, life imitated art when British Labour leader Ed Miliband used it to describe the ruling Tory-Lib Dem coalition’s 2012 budget.

The word is on its way to become a legitimate adjective, having been chosen as Oxford Dictionaries’ UK word of the year.