Remember Brexit? Remember all that “Smash the Bastardly Brussels Bureaucracy” bullshit that was floating around just a few months ago, hyped by everyone from George Will to Jill Stein? Well, now the chickens are coming home to roost, reports Politico’s Silvia Sciorilli Borrelli. It seems that trying to bail out of the global economy isn’t a good idea after all. I wonder how George and Jill will spin this one, or whether, having had their morality moment, have passed on to other things.
Afterwords
George’s impression of a neo-Churchillian bulldog is here. In an intriguing article, Allen Clifton points out how Stein has already edited herself on Brexit, first posting a rave and then silently replacing it with an “on the other hand”.
