When you woke up this morning if you listened very carefully you might have heard an odd sound – it was the sound of Britain slipping, actually tumbling, down the world’s rankings.

It’s been in the background for decades of course but we were holding our own, just.

Today, thanks to the infuriatingly brainless virtue-signalling of the Labour Party – from the “aren’t-I-cool” bad-mouthing of Donald Trump of cabinet members to the crass interfering idiocy of back room staff who took it upon themselves to fly to the US to “help” Kamala Harris (how’d that work out for you?), Britain today faces a very diminished position on the international stage.

Our witless Foreign Secretary David Lammy called the new leader of the free world a “neo-Nazi sociopath”. Foreign Affairs Select Committee chair Emily Thornberry, channelling all the political gravitas of Rik from the Young Ones, labelled him a “fascist”.

This is what passes for statecraft in our current ruling party.

The self-satisfied smugness of those people like Lammy and Thornberry who believed they knew better than the American people (and of course think they know better than you) should make you very angry.

But there’s worse. Labour, as we know, allowed backroom staff to go over and work tirelessly to help Kamala’s tilt at the White House. A very angry Mr Trump correctly accused Labour of interfering in a foreign election.

Anyway, all of this hideous virtue-signal Labour grandstanding will cost you and Britain dearly.

Donald Trump was a biddable friend of Britain in exactly the same way fake-Irishman Joe Biden wasn’t. Joe despised us and had zero qualms pushing Obama’s famous line that the post-Brexit UK was “at the back of the queue” for a trade deal.

By comparison Trump was a big fan of Brexit and in 2017 asserted Britain would be “first in line to do a great trade deal.”

Given that the US is our biggest export market I know who I’d rather deal with. The new President is an avowed protectionist and a trade deal was, and remains, vital to avoid crippling tariffs on our exporters.

And yet why on earth should Trump make any concessions for our relatively minnow nation now after our leaders openly displayed contempt for both him and, by extension, the American people?

Like I say, Labour’s undergraduate level virtue signalling is about to cost you money. Lots of money.

But it’s not just that. Britain’s place at the top table of the world order has, since 1945, been contingent on our “special relationship” with our friends across the Pond.

That relationship has been strained for some time (senile fake-Irishman Biden was dreadful) but today it is stone dead. It will never be resuscitated.

Overnight we have become Finland, with all the international clout that suggests.

Again, you can thank Labour woke posturing for that.

Diminished economically and diminished in the world just because some egotistical second-rate politicians couldn’t keep their traps shut, so eager were they to burnish their woke credentials.

In a sane world Trump’s spectacular success today would serve as a wake-up call to centrists and the left. Enough with the woke, enough with the preachy posturing. What America has said is: “telling me what to think is no business of Government.”

And they are right. Government’s job is primarily defence of the realm, and creating conditions for a prosperous economy.

And who would bet against Trump there?