Like many others who voted for Brexit during the referendum I occasionally come into contact with the suggestion that not everything has entirely worked out.
If it ain’t Woke, it ain’t Me
Of course back then Britain was already in the midst of extreme dysfunction – so the mere idea of Brexit was enough to channel lots of widely distributed disaffection.
On the day of the vote I too drank from the collective status anxiety. This rendered it impossible for me to resist the urge to give the Tory Government a kicking.
Much like a rioting prisoner / looting protestor / football hooligan I used my vote to send a marauding signal – not once thinking it would make a blind bit of difference.
Of course many, but not all the people driving the Brexit campaign wanted to drag the country even further to the right. And this is precisely what has happened. The centre ground in this country is now far more openly racist in pure media and political terms.
Many of us knew this would be the case but voted for Brexit anyway thinking that things would come good eventually.
At the time I actually thought that Cameron would resign and that Jeremy Corbyn would win the following General Election, which eventually took place in 2017.
And, to be fair to him, Corbyn ran Theresa May very close despite the dirtiest possible media coverage.
Anyway I say this because I saw something in the comments section of the Times today which made me chuckle.
Who’ll be wiping my backside?
Unwiped future Brexiteer backsides being the most evocative of visual motifs.
Tory George Freeman, who resigned as science minister recently because he said his salary wasn’t big enough for his outgoings, once said that Brexit Britain was like living in a care home which could no longer afford to pay its staff.
Exackerly.
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