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What most people miss about #Brexit is that it is, in a sense, the pinnacle of british culture. The country that gave the world unequalled literature from Beowulf to Pratchett, now aims to create a work of drama that no one will ever dare to match.
Elements from Shakespeare, Orwell and Monty Python combine into a show of high stakes, high drama and sheer insanity, performed byTheresa May and her government on the biggest stage ever conceived.
A bewildered, enraptured audience of eight billion people watch the drama unfold, where villains and, uh, other villains battle each other over inceasingly meaningless plot twists, while the ever-closer deadline looms.
Minutes before midnight of March 29., in a final act of defiance, The government will assemble in a dark and lonely field near Leicester (to annoy foreigners who can never be fully certain how to pronounce it correctly), and pull the secret emergency plug that is located there.
The whole country will sing 'God Save the Queen' one last time together, while slowly sinking beneath the waves of the north atlantic. Knowing that they created a timeless work of art that for centuries to come people will study and admire with horrified fascination.
