The blame game continues apace. The failure of the government’s Brexit policy has been blamed on everything from global warming to aliens from Saturn. Finally, the fingers have been pointed in the right direction.
The democratic mandate in 1975 was not enough for some. Instead of getting behind the government, respecting democracy and sucking it up, they have been whining and moaning and undermining everything the government has tried to do.
Ever since, Europe has been the graveyard of Tory prime ministers. It cannot be long before Boris Johnson finds his continental ditch, in some corner of a foreign field that is forever England.
Even aliens from Saturn must recognise who the real saboteurs and traitors in this sorry business are. People who refused to accept a democratic result, so subverted the democratic process to overturn it.
Predictably, outrage has followed in the wake of this revelation. “I fight World War 2 in my head every day!” snorted Leave voter Norman D. Landings. “And every day I win against impossible odds because I’m English! You can’t take that away from me!”
LCD Views’ Imperial Nostalgia correspondent asked Landings how he had voted in 1975.
“I wasn’t allowed to vote,” he replied, disclosing that he was a child at the time. “I remember the power cuts though, they were great fun, getting the candles out and pretending we were at war! Joining the EU spoiled all our fun. I would still of voted out if they’d of let me!”
What’s this war obsession all about, then?
“You get to have a big weapon and shoot people!” he said. “It’s exciting, it makes me feel good. Bang bang bang!”
Not compensating for anything, obviously.
The people old enough to vote in 1975 will have witnessed the slow postwar recovery, the brief flare of optimism in the 1960s, then the failure of the British economy in the 1970s. We are stronger as part of a union, as brexiters say when the UK threatens to tear itself apart.
In short, brexiters, you lost. Get over it.