The Borissar vanishes!
Seriously? “Should I do this thing that will almost certainly be immediately noticed and make people compare me to Stalin? I don’t see a downside!”
It must have taken some effort to paint in the missing background so convincingly.
Unless… the original photo was itself a photoshop, originally taken in an office in Downing Street, and with the spacecraft in the background digitally added afterwards. Then it would be a trivial task to excise Johnson from the image.
“Boris? Boris who?”
Ehh, content aware fill is pretty good.
Weird news, considering the massive success of Brexit in the UK as the Tories keep telling us:
Gonna keep saying it: it’s been massively successful for the people the Tories care about. For anyone not a wealthy Tory donor, results have been more…mixed.
“Voting for face-eating leopards has not panned out as the liberating and economy-growing move we were promised, especially since the leopards have taken to eating my face.”
The purpose of Brexit was to put the Boris Johnson faction into power as PM. It worked for a time, until his party grew tired of the mismanagement and incompetence. Now he has gone and the Truss has gone and there there are other, more pressing things to do than beating that particular drum. Governing the country and managing the economy through an energy crisis. Brexit will be quietly forgotten.
Has it been massively successful for anyone? Maybe financial speculators who bet on the economy going into recession. Short sellers?
I’d like to know who the winners are.
It is not as obvious as the crooks in the VIP lane who made money out of selling dodgy protective equipment during the Covid pandemic.
Disaster capitalists, the Conservative Party, Conservative Party donors, and any companies who would prefer not to have to deal with those pesky EU regulations.
I don’t anyone bragging about it. In fact the farmers and fishermen who were so voluble in their resentment of all things EU are now screaming for workers and subsidies. Exporters the EU now have to deal with a mountain of EU regulation. Even Tim Martin, the owner of a pub chain famous for selling cheap beer, is disappointed that he his seeing no Brexit benefits and he has had to close some pubs.
The EU got the blame for lot of structural problems in the UK economy. Those problems have not gone away. It requires the government to take the initiative with their new found freedom and fix all the things that were blamed on the EU holding the UK back. But they haven’t! Those loud mouthed business moguls playing politics by financing Brexit campaigns are deeply unimpressed.
This was always a Tory party internal peeing contest. But they raised the stakes by turning it into national issue and wasted huge amounts of time and political capital in the process.
I suspect that there were few winners. Boris had his time in the limelight, parading around as PM. But he never took the job that seriously. He was not one for detail.
It is now left to Sunak and Hunt to pick up the pieces and deal with the massive borrowing. Hopefully they may know a bit more about how the economy works than Johnson and Truss.
As @filmstar-en says, British companies who want to do business with the EU countries still have to deal with all those pesky EU regulations. The only difference is that Britain no longer has any input into those pesky EU regulations, which it used to have as a member of the EU.
They also have a lot more paperwork to do on top, since we are outside the single market/customs union and they have to certify/prove that they meet all those regulatory requirements. Hence Johnson’s Northern Ireland protocol and all the trouble that’s causing.
Oh, this is going to smooth things over with Scotland…
I predict within the next 10 years that Scotlands going to leave the UK legally or not …
And we shall have endless debates about how to pronounce Scexit.
Scotland will prefer to self-identify as “not-UK”.
I will enjoy all the vids shouting “sex-it, sex-it up!” to the tune of that old Devo tune “whit-it, whip it good”:
The Cars’ “Shake It Up” fits much better.
Low-skilled and semi-skilled workers in the private sector. One of the reasons people voted for Brexit was that they felt that the supply of workers from continental Europe was suppressing the prosects and wages of domestic British workers. Predictably, after Brexit, a lot of the workers from EU countries left Britain. This was exacerbated by the Covid pandemic when workers who were furloughed, or lost their jobs, returned to their home countries. That actually resulted in a worker/skills shortage in several industries which has been widely reported. The people who were working in jobs where there were worker/skills shortage mostly had their wages increased due to the supply diminishment.