There May be blood
The fantasy of Britain going it alone might soon come to pass, with who knows what results
Ten days to go before Britain crashes out of the EU without a deal, and Theresa May is behaving like a magician who keeps pulling the same dead rabbit out of her tiny hat, to jeers all round. Her last desperate trick is to call an election to save her show, which everyone hates anyway. That an election will not solve the Brexit dogshow is conveniently ignored. Both Tories and Labour have smothered themselves in ordure in the three years since "Big Dave" Cameron called his unwise referendum, which has done nothing but split the UK down the middle. One poll suggests that if you are over 50, own your house and have money in the bank, you probably voted Leave, thereby helping consign your country and your children to economic irrelevance. Perhaps it’s the first step for the country formerly known as Great Britain towards an International Monetary Fund bailout. For if one idea keeps cropping up like a bad penny, it’s the notion of "plucky Britain" going it alone in shark-infested waters ...
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