The situation here in the United Kingdom is so depressing that I do not even know where to start. All this talk of unity from religious figures and Boris Johnson is pie in the sky. To give you an idea of how divided the UK remains,
this evidence is very persuasive.
Nigel Farage exacerbated the divisions with his abhorrent display of nativism and nationalism in the European Parliament on Wednesday, the country is being run by populist xenophobes, and no convincing case has ever been made for Brexit. Economically, the prospects are poor. The UK will be at the behest of Trump if a trade deal with the US is ever going to be considered, let alone signed, while the deal ith the EU will be time-consuming and complicated. The only doubt is not whether the country will be worse off, but by how much it will be worse off.
Also on Wednesday's news, an elderly farmer was telling a BBC reporter how concerned he was about losing his Eastern European workers going forward, yet this very same farmer voted for Brexit. This is the kind of story that is also starting to be repeated by fishermen and the Cornish (who will lose their European funding from the regional structual and cohesion fund), yet the majority of these groups also voted for Brexit. It would be the politics of the absurd, yet it is the reality.
The ultimate irony of all of this is that the so called 'man of the people', Farage, with his offshore bank accounts, will waltz off to the US to help Trump, gloating all the way, while the people who he deceived will be the ones who will lose out the most and become even poorer as a result of Brexit. One day they might realise the mendacity of Farage, Johnson, Gove, Rees-Mogg, and others, but I doubt it.