So to sum up in the past week since the vote:
- Financial markets panic, but not quite at Lehman 2008 levels
- David Cameron resigns without keeping is promise to invoke Article 50
- Leave campaigners run around like headless chickens, unsure about the next steps
- Worse still, they immediately admit to lying about key promises
- Even worse still, they genuinely act as if the Empire is back
- Both major parties in Westminster in complete disarray
- Any residual pro-British sentiment in Scotland suffers a fatal blow
- Scotland openly talks with foreign powers against Westminster's wishes
- Irish reunification and Gibraltar retrocession suddenly aren't jokes
- Brussels humiliates the Leave campaigners by daring them to invoke Article 50
- In fact, Berlin and Paris barely contain their glee in dismembering the EU's drama queen
If you strip away the places and people, you'd think this is a collapsing third world banana republic whose banknotes have a suspicious number of zeros, and whose President is re-elected with numbers which are similar to FM radio stations.
But the United Kingdom? The birthplace of parliamentary democracy? Whose political class are educated at the world's finest schools? And whose civil service is professional, neutral, and resilient?
Really??
Really??
