…Making Britain GREAT again…
Most people in the UK are currently sitting in front of whatever fan/air-conditioner/open freezer is available to them, bemusing the fact that a giant in outer space appears to popped the country, along with several of it’s EU exes, onto a skewer, and shoved it into a pile of burning embers, much as a group of Scouts does with a packet of cheap marshmallows while at the end of a weekend of foraging for blackberries.
I, on the other hand, am sitting here bemusing the fact that ten years ago today, this idiotic country voted for the single biggest act of self-destruction in its recent history.
Since then:
- David Cameron whistled a happy little tune as he walked away, washing his hands of the whole, sorry, business.
- After a back-stabby scramble for the top job, Theresa May became Prime Minister, despite not caring enough about its future because “she isn’t a Mother”.
- Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour Party was challenged, because he was absolutely useless during the Brexit Campaign, but ultimately the party decided to keep him in situ. Remember Owen Smith, anyone? No, me neither.
- In 2017 May thought a general election would be fun, so she called one, a mere two years after the previous one. Brenda from Bristol was not amused. The Tories held on, but not by much.
- Boris Johnson did his best to rally the troops to vote down any semblance of a deal that May’s government came up with. Eventually Theresa told them all to fuck themselves, she’d had enough.
- After another cage fight for the Premiership, Boris emerged as the chosen one.
- In December 2019 the nation went to the polls a-fucking-gen and because people were still idiots three years after voting Brexit, the Tories won a landslide.
- After that shit-show Corbyn resigned as leader, but stayed on while the new leader was selected.
- COVID! COVID! COVID!
- Starmer was elected as Labour Leader from an acceptable social distance.
- COVID! COVID! COVID!
- By July 2022 Boris Johnson confirmed what all clear minded people already knew – that he is a deplorable bellend. When the nation found out that he had been partying at No.10, and allowing his SPADS to vomit all over the walls, while the Queen attended her husband’s funeral alone to adhere to Covid regulations, even the Tories decided they’d had enough.
- More blood and guts, as the Boiled Egg in a Suit clung on for dear life, led to the eventual election of Liz Truss.
- Forty Nine Days, One dead Monarch, One dead Economy, but One very much alive Lettuce later, Truss, too, was shown the door.
- Rishi did his best, but the country was well and truly sick of the ever-shrinking Tory Party playing musical Prime. Ministers, and in 2024 King Keir and Labour won with an enormous majority.
- And now, after almost two years of constant in-fighting, he too has resigned. On Brexit-Eve.
- As things currently stand, it looks like the most appealing job since Wife of Henry VIII will be taken over by Andy Burnham.
But who knows.
All we DO know, is that the first decade of making Britain GREAT again has been a triumph indeed…
Those of you with whom I was friends on Facebook at the time, may remember the daily posts I would write about PostBrexit Britain, and to mark the anniversary of the fallacy, I will be posting them here, one day at a time – really just for a record, as I’m slowly clearing my Facebook account.
“23 June 2016 – Facebook
I am voting Remain. For a multitude of reasons, that I don’t have enough time or space to go into. But if I hadn’t had enough reasons already, the Leave Campaign would have pushed me over the line.
With a contempt for education that will land us back in the dark ages before you can say Brexit, the Leave campaign has poo-pooed experts in pretty much every field there is, culminating in Michael Gove comparing economists who criticise Brexit, with Nazi scientists who denounced Einstein as wrong. He did. I know, right?!
While I’m sure that not every person voting Leave is racist (because I don’t want to believe that’s true) the campaign itself has done its best to drum up a level of suspicion and hostility directed at anyone “not British enough”, that it has made me feel physically sick. Sick and ashamed that the people I grew up with, who are scattered across the globe, are seeing such poison coming out of the country I have chosen to live in.
The people behind these tactics will be the people reforming the country if it votes Leave. And of all the scare stories being bandied about, and prospects that are being hypothesised, that’s the scariest prospect of all.
If you are undecided, please, PLEASE vote with me.”
My Name is Not Debbie 