Brexit is an English affair, this blog vindicated by Bloomberg

Brexit is an English affair

Brexiting. A series on being English. #11

Today, Friday, April 12th, 2019, unexpectedly the assertions of this blog about England and Brexit were vindicated by Bloomberg no less, the most reliable source in the world.
Here it is: Click on the Bloomberg article

Brexit Exposes Painful Disconnect Between England and Britain

I have been attacked by English pseudo-pundits saying that the majority of the Britons voted for Leave at the Brexit referendum of June 23, 2016 (17.4 versus 16 million; a tie, really, but still a majority). Although technically true, it was the overpowering number of the old-fashioned English, living in England and longing for the glory days
of yore when they, I have to admit, indeed were superior. Not anymore. They cannot come to terms with the fact that England is now just another country, developing itself into a wonderful museum of Victorian traditions and societal history from 2019 going 7 centuries back to the Magna Carta of 1215. I called them the orthodox English but later discovered there is a special term for them in the British English language: Little England. Little England cannot conceive of anyone on this planet being at par to them, let alone being wiser as the Brussels governors of the EU claim to be. It is wonderfully illustrated by the unsurpassed Agatha Christie in her Poirot novels and films. Poirot is always being put away as someone 'who does not understand, he's a foreigner.'


I am the greatest Anglophile but beware when you pay England a visit. To the fine gentry folk that populate Little England, from the taxi driver to your hotel way up to Prince William, you are liable to be seen as a monkey that escaped from a zoo  They are polite as accomplished diplomats and nice to a T, and their manners are impeccable (always use a sugar pincer!) but they will never take you for what you are worth. So, feel free to say whatever you want to them, you are a monkey from a zoo anyway, aren't you? 😄

Amsterdam, April 12, 2019
Picture: Eton College, boys, just coming back from summer holiday in August 2016.