Decline and Fall

Brexit gets more bizarre by the day:

• Johnson sets up what he calls a War Cabinet - who have we declared war on, but ourselves? He's obviously trying to channel his inner Churchill and will be wearing a blue onesie next.
• He says the EU should show common sense, when Brexit itself is a complete abdication of common sense and his demand is that we get a better deal outside of the EU than in it, which would lead to the implosion of the EU.
• He's putting billions into mitigating the effect of a hard Brexit, when the ERG maintain a hard Brexit is exactly what's needed and all will be rosy.
• The mere fact he's ploughing billions into hard Brexit preparations - which incidentally also mitigate the effect of a soft Brexit - is an admission in itself that threatening a hard Brexit is a bluff, even to the most casual observer.
• The government is being dictated to by Dominic Cummings - an unelected bureaucrat who has admitted that Leave won on the basis of lies.

Brexiteers, especially those of the Brexit Party variety, are fond of calling Germany a Nazi state, when Farage is hand-in-glove with the AfD, Marie le Pen's National Front and every fringe, far right entity within Europe. The irony is simply astounding.

Meanwhile, Europeans (and indeed the whole world) looks on us with amusement as we destroy ourselves and the Union. I wonder who will become as famous as Edward Gibbon when the history of what was the United Kingdom is written?