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The Future of Brexit
We will begin, gentle reader, with a little history for those who aren’t sure what the word Brexit means.
Back in the long-ago days of 2016 the United Kingdom was a normal semi-functioning Western democracy that was respected around the world.
Unfortunately after a handful of decades of relative social mobility, its Prime Minister (the UK equivalent of President) was a weak-chinned privately-educated throwback to the bad old days of hereditary privilege. Much like a certain orange halfwit currently soiling the interior of the White House in Washington DC, this scion of the proverbial silver spoon had gone through life having everything handed to him on a gilded platter. His name was David Cameron.
As he’d never had to fight for anything in his life, he was distinctly lacking in courage which in turn meant that he was unable to confront the low-IQ atavistic minority within the ruling British Conservative Party for whom Europe was anathema. These people frightened him, and Cameron didn’t like being frightened. He certainly didn’t want to have to confront his foes.
So his cunning plan was to let the British people do the confronting for him.
He called for a national ballot on the topic of whether or not to remain in the European Union, an institution that had provided Europe with nearly eight decades of…
