The funniest political satire since Donald Trump’s ‘Great Again: How to Fix Our Crippled America’ culminates with the greatest April Fools joke in history. BREXIT – (GBBO) is a Whitehall farce in the tradition of ‘Yes, Prime Minister’.
Britain’s Prime Minister, Theresa Dismay, sits alone in Number 10’s Cabinet Room her head cradled despairingly in her hands and she ponders the meaning of her political albatross – BREXIT.
While her homily ‘BREXIT means BREXIT’ buys a little time the public, the markets, investors, her Cabinet and her nemesis – the EU grow increasingly impatient demanding to know; ‘What’s the plan, and is it hard, soft or flaccid?’
Former ‘Bake Off’ winner, Victoria Sponge, needs certainty to chart a route to success and profitability for her expanding cake empire. Ralph Cummingtonite, expatriate vintner, needs to know if he can retain his French home, vineyard and business or will his assets be appropriated and he, himself, deported? John Bull, English patriot, EDL activist, skinhead and neo-Nazi just wants his bloody country back.
In the lair of the beast, Bruxelles, Jean-Claude Focke-Wulf, Donald Tsk-Tsk, Michel Barmier and Angela Merkin conspire and plot to ensure that the UK gets smacked on its ass by the door as it leaves the negotiating table empty-handed.
On his South Devon estate Sir Barrington Babbling-Brooke, Civil Servant Emeritus, is burdened by an eight-year old secret. The author of Article 50 has committed a spectacular act of legerdemain. It is his uniquely bureaucratic version of ‘the cosmic joke’. Should he continue to keep his powder dry or spill the beans?
