“A No Deal Brexit will show the Millennium Bug was much ado about nothing,” Bernard Jenkins, somehow an MP, told LCD Views today as we sat on the porch of dead empire and considered the vista.
“All this fuss, all the project fear about Y2K and come the stroke of midnight what happened?” Mr Jenkins demanded to know while preparing to slice bread with a chainsaw.
Mr Jenkins has a point. What the point is no one is quite sure. Most likely it’s a deeply ideological one that needs no contact with reality for him to smugly function.
”Billions were wasted preparing for the moment the Millennium Bug was supposed to eradicate computer life as we know it,” he adds, “thousands and thousands of man hours flushed away. Masses of coders working day and night preparing computer systems and rewriting code. The public warned in advance of the political negatives if steps weren’t taken. A long lead in and the best minds on the job working together, not just nationally but internationally. And all for what? Why?”
So the Millennium Bug was much ado about nothing?
”Precisely! That money could have been better spent on my parliamentary expenses! What a waste.”
So it’s the same with No Deal Brexit?
”We’re going to find out. I don’t personally know anyone who is a multi-millionaire who isn’t pushing for it, after sensibly preparing an overseas bunker in the event of a No Deal Scenario. Just think of the money to be made out of the chaos? I know I do!”
Are you sure you want to slice that loaf of bread up with a chainsaw?
”Yes. Because I’m not going to be holding the loaf. That’s what you’ll do.”