You’re scared!?
That’s the UK’s premier!
And it’s not a joke — it’s really like that!
On top of that, we’ve got rabid brexshit voters declaring that a second referendum would be a betrayal of Democracy … and that there will be violence in the streets if ‘The Will Of [37% of] The People’ is thwarted by one — because, you know, more democracy is the very antithesis of more democracy ¹.
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¹ Yes, they really are that fucking insane — they’re treating it like it were a sports event and their ‘win’ being taken away from their team rather than one of the most momentous national decisions taken in the last seventy years … that could, within mere months now, plunge the nation into a virtual Dark Ages ².
² The government was/is talking about the need to stockpile food and medicines … except that, behind its back, during the last three years, some unknown private enterprise has leased all the warehouses and there are none available … potentially putting the army on the streets to keep order in the event of unrest (probably with a national curfew, but it won’t be a form of martial law, honest) … overruling doctors’ prescriptions and ordering pharmacists to supply … well, it’s not clear what, but something other than the prescribed medicines (possibly even placebos) … and to reduce the dosage and frequency of the prescription (not like rationing, you understand, just ‘an adjustment of the type and dosage’) … I kid you not … it’s fucking insanity — were a civil war to break out in the UK in the next couple of years, I wouldn’t be entirely surprised ³.
³ The Brexiters are foaming at the mouth, talking of being stabbed in the back … (and we know from History how that mythology tends to play out) …and the Remainers won’t be happy if the nation goes down the pan but are still being told by the Brexiters “You lost, suck it up”… UKIP, the party responsible for it all, are encouraging a far-right agitator, with a criminal record (and who has been banned from both the US and Australia as well) to ‘advise’ them … who is, himself, talking about making a play for a seat in government … and, whilst not likely, I don’t think, the ‘Troubles’ could return to Ireland ⁴ … a government arguing it could use royal prerogative to overrule Parliament, then found to be in contempt of Parliament for not obeying a parliamentary ruling about something else and withholding information it was legally bound to release, then deciding to postpone a vote imposed by Parliament on the grounds the government would lose the vote, despite having bunged £1 billion to one faction in NI, when it is supposed to guarantee the ‘Good Friday Agreement’ (that finally brought an end to the ‘Troubles’ after decades ⁵) as an impartial party … an opposition that doesn’t oppose (even when all but invited to do so in so many words, by the Speaker of the House, who is, himself, a member of the ruling party, ffs) … all parties split internally between Leavers and Remainers, so no consensus anywhere — whatever happens now (take the deal, crash out, rescind Article 50, or remain after a second referendum), it’s gonna be nasty one way and another and .. unlike Trump … it won’t be over six years from now … it’s gonna go on for a generation or more.
⁴ The RoI/NI border is the single bigest stumbling block for May’s deal, as it happens … and not helped by one of our former (and disgraced) ministers asking why we don’t pressure the EU by threatening to cut off food supplies to the RoI and starve them into submission — I’m sure you can guess how well that went down … what with the great famines in Ireland due to that very policy being enacted in the Past, resulting in over a million dead and millions more emigrating (from which the population has not completely recovered to this day).
⁵ The first thirty-odd years of my life didn’t consist of ‘heightened awareness’ and the ‘War On Terror’ … there wasn’t the threat of terrorism, people actually got blown up and shot every few weeks — which is why there are no bins in large public spaces (like railway stations) in the UK, so that bombs can’t be planted in them.
