Whenever Brexit is discussed these days, you will nearly always find a splenetic or exultant Remainer asking, often in a weirdly high pitched voicetone: where are the Brexit Benefits then? Can you name any? Mm? Just one? Where is the £350 million for the NHS?

And to be fair to these people, since the Brexit vote, obvious, tangible, yay-look-at-this Brexit Benefits have been pretty thin on the ground. Or, in fact, utterly non existent.

The first Actual Brexit Benefit is the ability to go and work in lovely sunny parts of the EU and pay way less tax

For those who voted Leave on the basis of sovereignty, this does not matter much. For these people, Brexit is itself the benefit. We brought democracy (however flawed) back to the UK. Westminster has become, once again, what it should always be – our crucial political cockpit, where the affairs of the nation are fairly and finally decided. We can now elect and eject those who purport to govern us, something we could never do with Ursula von der Leyen, et al.

But of course many people did not vote Brexit on the grounds of sovereignty and democracy. They really did vote because of the £350 million on the bus, promised to an NHS which is now on its knees.

They voted to put a major brake on immigration, yet somehow we have record legal immigration and we have people landing on our beaches in their tens of thousands. They voted because they thought it would make us more prosperous, but the UK is probably the only G7 country whose economy is still smaller than it was pre-pandemic.

However, I am proud to announce that this has maybe all changed. Because I believe I have identified an Actual Brexit Benefit. And it is graced with magnificent garlands of irony.

It comes in the form of the new Digital Nomad Visa, just recently passed into law by the Spanish government. In essence it means remote workers, who make most of their money outside Spain, can now go and live in Spain and get residency – for five years or more – and they will only pay 15 per cent tax. All they need is health insurance, an annual income of €28,000 (£24,500), and proof that they are – wait for it – non EU nationals. This scheme, like similar schemes hoving into view in Portugal, Croatia, Greece, and elsewhere – is not available to EU citizens.

You see what I mean about irony. The first Actual Brexit Benefit, the first tangible bonus of our leaving the EU, is the ability to go and work in lovely sunny parts of the EU, and pay way less tax than any EU citizens.

The consequences are many, and marvellously intriguing. For a start it will surely encourage some fruity conversations in Marbella and Malaga, and Lisbon, Mykonos and Split, when the local Germans, Swedes, and Finns realise they are sitting next to a table of rowdy digital Brits paying half the amount of tax they are, because of Brexit.

It will also be quite poignant for Remainers who remained in the EU after Brexit and proudly got residency, when they are suddenly joined in Cadaques and Majorca by Leave voters who also now have residency but who are unquestionably getting a better deal, taxwise. Leavers who are literally enjoying a Brexit Benefit. Arguably at the expense of the locals.

In the end I wonder if we may see other rainy cold countries exiting the EU, just so they can get the right to go back and live in the sunnier bits of the EU, but pay much less tax than EU people. Either way, let’s all arrange to meet up in Valencia. The cava is on me.