Has the British isles turned into Fantasy Island?
(note: This is an anti-conservative political humor diary)
The simple fact is we are all surrounded by overwhelming evidence as this diary will provide some detail in humorous fashion, (so be sure to bring your best tongue in cheek smile!) for that Brexit is purely a fake news media invention broadcast to you live from Fantasy Island, whose purpose is to benefit a small number of unscrupulous clown like politicians with the Brexit circus sideshow and their substantial profiteering financial backers.
Nothing more has caused the British Isles to be viewed as fantasy island minus Recardo Montalban, where all of your fake news Brexit fantasies can become reality for one episode, whose head of state was the yellow haired straw man character straight out of the Wizard of Oz, who couldn't be trusted, because how could you ever trust a man who doesn't even own a comb? Is therefore capable of saying anything, which immediately becomes an overnight sensational fake news headline broadcast to you live from the 24/7 fake news services of Fantasy Island.
So now we have established at least some of the cast of characters let me invite you to read on, and in doing so concurrently welcome you to the rump of the UK, otherwise known as fantasy island, where all of your most exotic Brexit dreams can come true, now you know this has to be true because Michael Gove, who won the Britain's Got Talent contest for being the ugliest man alive, has received a starring role, in the conservative Tory party circus sideshow!
Of course the error of comedies called Brexit would actually well and truly be hilariously funny if in fact it wasn't concurrently a real life tragedy hurting millions. But that's the way it is sometimes when theater mirrors life, and as such we must say on with the circus sideshow show...…
The minority of the British electorate who voted in a non-binding referendum in 2016 might as well have voted to establish British colonies on Mars by the end of 2020. By the way most of the British electorate didn’t even vote. For the usual reasons, which are they were disenfranchising people who are poor and people of color. As if it were a really special episode of Fantasy Island, because the truth be known they would have a better chance at least some day of establishing Mars colonies from their conservative Tory (Pro-Brexit) voting patterns. When in fact the majority of political parties in the UK did not support the Boris Johnson conservative Tory manifesto. They were therefore all labeled as spoilers. Particularly the liberal democrats were very active in opposing Brexit, along with the Scottish national party which also opposed Brexit.
Scotland and Northern Ireland voted to stay in the European Union, so did the legislature in Wales, but Britain with its first pass-the-post dysfunctional disproportionate election system means that the majority of people in the UK did not vote for Brexit. In a clear case where Boris Johnson’s Tory conservative party, though it maintained a majority of seats, only got 30% of the votes. As they would establishing a Brexit independently effectuated by the end of 2020, so that it doesn't make any difference how many progressive politicians they throw out of office, in their circus-like theater of the absurd electoral system on Fantasy Island. Brexit is and will continue to be a bad joke. By the way Boris Johnson’s Tories are hypocrites. They talk about wanting to leave Europe but haven’t left the jurisdiction of the European high court of justice, because Gt Britain is a member of the Council of Europe, who by way of coincidence has the same flag as the European Union. How funny is that.
Generally speaking, no one will tell you this, so I just did, but in case you don’t think it gets funnier than this, keep reading this tongue in cheek diary, which will take you all the way, to yes, you guessed it. Fantasy Island. The small island nation called Gt Britain, bluntly put doesn't have the power or wherewithal to be able to effectuate a Brexit, except in Fantasy Island name only. It doesn't really make any difference what the 30% of British conservative voters want, or how wildly they scream for it, it simply can't happen except for a fake news propaganda piece, that calls itself Brexit and can only be Brexit in name only. Broadcasted to you live from the fake news services of Fantasy Island.
Of course if the UK would associate itself with for example the United States or China or some other giant power block that actually had the resources to effectuate a Brexit that was real instead of in fake news Fantasy Island only the it could be done, but the go it alone independent United Kingdom version of Brexit is a pipe dream. Only best understood by the inebriated who’ve been blessed in consuming large quantities of Scotch whisky.
The power and resources just aren't there. Even if it was possible, which it isn't, the 700 plus treaties that it would take to effectuate it could never be put through anywhere except on Fantasy Island in an 11 month period. These types of things would take a decade or more at least. And Boris Johnson that lovable strawheaded rogue is going to do this with a small island nation that is breaking apart, in consideration of the Scottish independence movement.
Of course with the so called border down the Irish Sea between the UK and Ireland, it looks like Northern Ireland will be leaving the UK as well as the Scots. With the Scots, there goes North Sea oil.
At what point do we begin to ask what is the UK that is going to perform this independent Brexit? Is it England or is it Fantasy Island? As a small island nation with no substantial natural resources is going to start an independent trade war with the EU, which is the biggest trading block in the world with over 400 million people and its own currency. Incidentally the delusions of Fantasy Island don't stop there, because certain Northern English cities such as Manchester actually want to join Scotland. Now you would think that has to be a joke! It sure is as funny as hell, but it is also true.
www.independent.co.uk/… “A campaign to make Manchester part of Scotland has gathered momentum after a surprising 72 per cent of respondents voted in favour of secession”
So when it comes to little England and the “Englanders”, what are they going to Brexit to? Quick I know! Fantasy Island.
Oh yes they have the British pound sterling. Is there anyone who believes after the break up of the UK if it really did leave the EU, that the pound sterling would be solvent for how long throughout the Brexit episode of Fantasy Island? But wait it gets still worse with Plaid Cymru that is the Welsh independence party, there's another independence movement afoot.
Now of course someone by now probably in the last row of our virtual meeting hall has started to whistle the tune of God save the Queen, which of course would be completely correct, because in a no deal Brexit the Sun newspaper has reported that there are plans to evacuate the Queen and the Royal Family from the UK aka Fantasy Island. Now there are thousands of British troops engaged in training for possible post-Brexit unrest if there is a no deal Brexit. But please stay tuned it gets even funnier. There is a grass roots movement afoot in the UK of post-Brexit preppers, who're involved in preparing themselves for food shortages, civil unrest and more English bad weather.
Not quite my cup of tea you say, well there is more happy news afoot on Fantasy Island. You see as the British Supreme Court recently tried to rein Boris Johnson in, he now wants to dismantle the British independent courts, as really the final check on the Prime Minister's power, because unlike in the United States where Congress can check the President's power or even start impeachment proceedings. When Prime Minister has a substantial majority he takes on many of the powers of the ruling monarch, as a simple practical matter. Of course there is the House of Lords, but then again the Commons can overrule anything the Lords does eventually.
So we're back to the value of an independent judiciary which again that lovable strawheaded rogue Boris Johnson as the man who doesn't own a comb aka the last ruling monarch of Fantasy Island, wants to dismantle it all shall we say, so they take to some extent influence from the government of the day, as it is termed. At which point the question becomes is this still Gt Britain, the democracy everyone has come to know and love or is it what is known in the venacular as Brexit Fantasy Island the rump of the UK. You see when a country breaks apart that which remains may be referred to as the rump in this case of the UK.
So it is no longer the United Kingdom, certainly it will have to change its flag. But the question really is can it survive Brexit? The real answer is no but you want to know what's really scary, we have let the Breiteers aka Fantasy Islanders have a seat on the UN Security Council which of course they must have because after all they are the global British Empire! For these reasons and others, Brexit except in name only can never exist. Of course we've heard that Brexit does exist, even though everything is still the same and Britain has all the rights it ever had as a member of the EU and all of the privileges that it has and that includes all of its citizens and all EU citizens. So today nothing has changed. Oh you say this is only for the 11 months transition period. Well the short answer is no it isn't, that is another fake news story and it came to you straight from Fantasy Island.
You see the law that the British Parliament put itself under to get Brexit done in 11 months is another vacuous Brexit propaganda piece in fake news theatrics, because it turns out the British Parliament can exempt itself from any law it previously made with a new law. If that's what they want to do. That is pretty much what they'll have to do. You see the actual withdrawal treaty that Britain is under allows for 3 years transition period not just 11 months. So nothing will change as they kick the can down the road for another 3 years, except you will see more light up fake news propaganda pieces telling you what to think, but most importantly telling you that Brexit is here even though nothing has changed, inside of Britain everything is still the same, as when Britain was a so called full EU member.
Now you ask at the end of the 3 year transition period will they kick the can down the road further, the short answer is yes, because the necessary treaties for a real Brexit couldn't happen, even after another 3 years. 13 years maybe, 30 years quite possibly any other place on earth except of course for Fantasy Island, because there the government claims they can do it in 11 months. That is by the end of December 2020! The rump of the former UK could Brexit if they had the resources to do so by then, but even that is doubtful.
At some point along the way there will be another general election, probably sooner rather than later, and there will be a new government and Brexit will be unceremoniously canceled as if it never existed, which it never did, because it couldn't have ever existed in all probability. But even if it could exist which it can't the rump of the UK which is little England and Wales independently on the world stage would be shamelessly exploited in a way that would make a mockery out of the unceremonious end of the United Kingdom, as part of a former empire on which the sun never set!
The only other place that ever happens is in the rump of the UK, which is yes you've guessed it Fantasy Island. Now for Americans to really understand Fantasy Island you have to aggregate New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Houston and Los Angeles into one place that ruled the world for hundreds of years, and then you begin to understand the mentality present in London's Whitehall, which this diary points out has degenerated into what now is in the process of becoming the rump of the UK, home of the Brexiteers. Ergo the lovable moniker Fantasy Island.
This is so beset with problems that it has even become doubtful that they could keep Gibraltar, otherwise known as the Rock, up on high, good for spotting the plane whenever it arrives on Fantasy Island, because it turns out Spain wants it back. The EU seems to have some sympathy for that position quite interestingly enough. Now what does that actually mean? More bad news for British overseas territories.
For example the Cayman Islands has just been blacklisted, believe it or not as a tax haven by the EU, as if there wasn't enough good news left for the rump of the UK.
Of course then there is the entire question of Northern Ireland and the good Friday Accord because the rump of the UK wants to have a trade treaty with the United States but the Congress of the US has said no deal if it jeopardizes the Peace Agreement otherwise known as the Good Friday Accord.
The Good Friday Accord is in jeopardy according to no less a figure that Jonathan Powell who is the former chief negotiator for Tony Blair's government in the Good Friday Accord. What does he say?
Well basically he says, the magic of the Good Friday Accord is that everyone wins, because everyone in Northern Ireland is free to associate themselves as being an Irish citizen and that includes the right to have an Irish passport, even if they live in Northern Ireland.
Concurrently the Unionists who seek strong association with the UK and see themselves as British concurrently are free to be British in Northern Ireland, where everything is open where open borders abound, except for wait for it Boris Johnson's Brexit, where he threatens to impose a hard border in the Irish Sea, which again is that bit of strawheaded magic that's proof in the Yorkshire Pudding that we are all living on Fantasy Island after all, because this man and his Brexiteer cabinet don't seem to understand anything. This would be a bad comedy but it is tragically hurting so many millions of real people. Boris strawheaded thinking when it comes to his assault on the Peace Accord known as the Good Friday Accord doesn't think this will alienate the Unionists. Well is he right?
You can decide that for yourself just look at the evidence. I will defer to Jonathan Powell on that point and he says that Boris Johnson is wrong that he will hurt the Unionists and jeopardize the Peace Process. So if this is right there will be no US rump of the UK trade deal, because to reiterate Congress of US says anything that jeopardizes the Good Friday Accord and therewith the Peace Process isn't going to be something that our Congress will support. So pray tell, do tell Boris Johnson otherwise known as Bojo, that strawheaded rogue, otherwise known as the last emperor of Fantasy Island, how will you get Brexit done, to coin your bumper sticker slogan. Well the simple fact is the Brexiteers can vote and support pie in the sky, and manna from heaven but that doesn't mean that voting for it could cause it to be realized by the rump of the UK, anywhere on earth except on fake news Fantasy Island. This has already hemorrhaged millions of pounds lost, many tens of thousands of jobs, and can cause food shortages civil unrest and for the UK to break apart. The fact is the oppressed historical people of Scotland and Northern Ireland may well be better off with the EU than trusting Whitehall, that is if history is any kind of a guide.
The fact is a small number of politicians have reached the highest offices of the land, along with untold benefits for their financial billionaire backers and that's what Brexit is actually for to benefit those people, who according to a quote attributed to Dominic Cummings affectionately known as Dom, aka the Wizard of Oz, targeted the electorate with over 1 billion targeted ads during the campaign. This so called Brexit referendum which is a non-binding referendum. That's to say if it had been a binding referendum many of the things that happened by the electorate could be viewed as being even illegal plain and simple, but it is rather interesting to see what a non-binding referendum a type of opinion poll snapshot has been morphed into on Fantasy Island, which is Brexit which will come to be known as the biggest hoax fake news story in the history of the British Empire ever to dawn the seas of Fantasy Island, on which now it seems the sun may be poised to set for the final time!