Thursday, June 23, 2016

Brexit is Only Interesting English Thing Since The Beatles

Just like America, England hasn't sought to accomplish anything real in decades and only amuses itself building Trident submarines and taxing bedrooms pretending it's still an Empire and America does it also to pretend it ever was an Empire.  The Beatles sang She Loves You, yeah, yeah, yeah, but the Queen don't love nobody, li'l princess.  If you think she does, how about we ask the people at Amritsar.

(Ed:  the British Army murdered them all to teach them a lesson!)

Right.  I forgot that.

(Ed:  they were just following orders)

Yah, you hear that a lot from the military when they murder a lot of people, don't you.


Maybe England pulls out of the European Union and there would be instant comedy since Scotland would probably join the EU after the pull-out.  It's a glaring case of politicalis interruptus and the Scots won't leave until the job is done (i.e. everyone is roaring drunk on Scotch whiskey).

England can pull out of the EU and then wait a few years until kids say in school, England?  That's the one that's bigger than Iceland, isn't it?


Perhaps England decides to stay in the EU and that makes this million-pound monkey parade yet another meaningless political exercise.  That's our bet for what comes but we would be lying if we said we think it matters.  We don't care what happens with it as these sorts of things are only steps toward the Hunger Games and are otherwise unremarkable.  England may be closer to the Clockwork Orange than America since they have had roaming gangs of soccer hooligans for years and, unlike American gangs, these ones go international.


This isn't a time in history when anyone aims high.  Conservatives have dragged everything so low life has become nasty, brutish and short.  Five points if you know where I stole that but the knowledge means you went to school so it probably wasn't around here.

Worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short - Thomas Hobbes some time in the sixteenth century.

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