So let me get this Brexit story straight: Conservative PM David
Cameron, for (un)reasons of his own, foists a referendum on staying in the EU
on the wool-gathering, ale-swilling British populace. Cameron was for REMAIN.
REMAIN went down to defeat. LEAVE kicked ass. Cameron, personally, therefore,
had to LEAVE, and doesn't seem to be terribly missed. (Perhaps he's removed
himself to Paris.)
London ex-mayor Boris Johnson, who had all along been
vociferously for REMAIN, suddenly came out just as stridently for LEAVE.
Johnson is a zany fellow, educated in the high patrician manner, who enjoyed
bicycling around London spouting Virgil in Latin at innocent commoners no
matter how fast they ran away. It was thought for a time that Johnson toggled
from REMAIN to LEAVE in order to become PM. But no, it was nothing as
comprehensible as that, nothing quite as sane. It seems he had been seized by the
same spirit of mischief that dominates all concerned with BREXIT.
Time out: Did the likes of these chaps ever really rule an
empire? Hard to believe, innit.
Now Theresa May takes over, hell-bent for getting BREXIT
right, finished, over and done with. Except at the last minute she suddenly
craves an election to fortify her for the task, that being England pushing off
from Europe, Scotland pushing off from England, borders mounted between Ireland
and the rest. In short, a massive devolution, a great deal of unnecessary
nonsense, what Simon Schama has called "The greatest act of unforced
national self-harm yet known in modern history."
Perhaps May has cold feet, and hopes for an uprising against
the folly of LEAVE, maybe even necessitating referendum 2.0, will stay her
hand. Perhaps she prays nightly for the spirit of Winston Churchill to descend
on and guide her but is troubled to find only that of Monty Python.
As for Jeremy Corbyn, hierophant of the Labor Party, he has his own nonsenicals to deal with, such as which is
the better expression of anti-imperialism, Hamas or Hezbollah.
What do you think? Tough one, innit?
Hezbollah, Hamas, take your pick.
But who am I to scoff? I'm an American citizen and my
detestable president roars and tweets about sending an aircraft carrier toward
N. Korea, in order to settle the irascible Kim Jong-un down. Turns out, the USS
Carl Vinson was going the other way, steaming toward Australia. But what has
Australia done to attract such attention?
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