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Brexit: A Glorious Success
Why shortages everywhere show how Brexit Britain is on its way to achieving perfection
At the beginning of 2021, after an arduous multi-year process that was sold to simple-minded voters as quick and pain-free, the United Kingdom (hereafter referred to as the UK, pronounced appropriately as “uck”) left the European Union to embark on the serious task of becoming the greatest nation in the history of the entire universe.
Brexit was the promise of a return to Empire and Spitfires flying once again over the White Cliffs of Dover to the accompaniment of Vera Lynn singing. India would come crawling on its knees, begging to be asset-stripped once again by its beloved white colonial masters and the USA would rush to give Britain the greatest-ever trade deal that would certainly compensate for the loss of the 47% of UK gross domestic product that relied on being part of the European Union. By taking back control and restoring sovereignty, Britain could regain its glorious past.
And indeed this is how things have turned out, albeit the past that has been recovered resembles the late 1960s and the 1970s with their endless shortages, power cuts, high level of unemployment, and the NHS unable to deal with multi-year backlogs. But who cares about trivial details like this when a glorious future lies…
