Is Britain Finally Ready To Admit Brexit Was a (Catastrophic) Mistake?
Britain’s Self Inflicted Catastrophe Is Turning Out….Exactly Like We All Warned It Would
Something cosmically, tragically funny happened today. Do you know who Nigel Farage is? He plays a character, also called “Nigel Farage.” That character is a sober gentleman of the British Establishment. The kind who wears finely tailored suits and pocket squares. And “Nigel Farage” — the character, the man, take your pick — was almost single-handedly responsible for what turned out to be one of the greatest calamities in modern history: Brexit.
Today, Nigel got up on a stage, and said: “Brexit has failed.” Shrug. Hey, who would’ve thunk? Maybe you see the painful irony. You could almost hear the rusty gears of thought clunking into motion. This comes after years of lampooning Europeans, immigrants, refugees — everyone, really — as not British enough, in order to basically set up the Big Lies of Brexit, the slogans that would incinerate a nation’s rational mentation. We’re going to “take back control!” “Britain First!” “Brexit means Brexit! (Whatever that one even means.) To basically make poor, bewildered Brits, barraged by this arsenal of mendacity, believe that fantastic illogic that…giving up the right to live and work in Europe…was going to make…
