Would it be remiss of me to state that something dark and disturbing has long been coming for our little country? Remember all those years ago when we had an empire and it was the greatest empire the world had ever seen and we did all that amazing stuff? Well we need to get over that. Years ago.
We joined the EU in 1973, before a lot of you, myself included, were even born. Before the internet, or Rick Rolling, or even before the original release of the Rick Roll, in the 80s. Basically it was a simpler time.
Anyway I was luring you in with tales of the past - now let me take you on a whirlwind tour of the future...
You've spent all day hearing either doom and gloom from upset Remain voters, or bigotted racism disguised as patriotism so i'm going to offer you it from a different perspective.
The UK as we have known it most of our lives has been a miserable, self-important little land and we all knew that loads of people were xenophobic (which is a fear of the unknown (i.e. foreigners (not the band who produced the absolutely tune "I Want To Know What love Is"))) or just racist in general. I remember years ago in an interview Stephen Fry said something along the lines that the average Brit suffers from a huge superiority complex which is just hiding an inferiority complex, and I think he's right. We're all brought up being told what a great country, a Great Britain (I am so pleased with myself), we all live in, and that used to be true we literally used to run a quarter of the world, but nowadays we're only top of the poles like the most drug offences in Europe or biggest teenage pregnancy - although the latter is probably hailing back to the days when if a girl wasn't pregnant by the time she was 15 then she was probably just a beard in a sham marriage - but luckily times have changed!
I believe, more so than our corrupt upper elite and two other examples, our biggest crime has been complacency. Even in this recent referendum I think only about 70% of people voted, the other 30% probably couldn't be arsed, or was there a football match on that day? And even though for once young people actually bothered to vote - AHA! the old people came out in droves to get their own back for all the anti-social behaviour and drugs etc that the young people, especially students, always do! Plus some of them remember when we were at war in Europe - one elderly person I know actually voted leave because of the war. One young person I overheard on the train only this morning voted out because she hated David Cameron (though i guess she got the result she wanted!)
In a way I feel sorry for old Dave. He spends years coddling the super-rich and fucking over everyone else, and the minute he actually gives a ticker's jizz for what the British public think, we, as a country, basically take a huge metaphorical shit with our clothes on.
But, friends, not all is lost. Things are dark right now, and they won't get better without a hell-a-lot of effort. By effort I mean EVEN more than screaming onto social media (ironic) because doesn't everyone like to think they've figured it all out and must let everyone they know know that? Because whilst people are doing that then they arn't actually having to get off their arses and make the changes that will be necessary to drag this country out of this slump.
Changing isn't quick or painless , a great historic example would be our old friend and ally Joseph Stalin who actually killed more people than Hitler but we ignore that because they were people who lived in the country he was manager of, or something. Anyway when he took over control of Russia the country was a complete dive and he built them tractors and dams etc and mechanised them (which isn't to say he created Russian cyborgs) and anyway the end result was that Russia was in much better shape and nice and ready for WW2. but yeah lots of people died during these changes cos they had to do decades worth of work in very little time.
This is a different place and time but this culture where the uneducated (and many of the snobbish educated, too, let's not label here) beleive that just because they happened to fall out of a vagina (and not just an vagina, a good old-fashioned British vagina!) on British soil that makes them better than anyone who wasn't born here.
I still remember, from many many years ago the first time racism was explained to me (not from a sympathiser, mind) and it baffles me that anyone would think in that way. I mean the sort of people who go around saying 'oh these foreigners come over here stealing our jobs' is such shallow-minded bullshit that some people still cant grasp. If someone's better than you at a job then they damn well deserve it, u moron!
It's tragic that immigrants are treated like the enemy in this country and one of the reasons for this is because they are some of the most vulnerable. The mega-rich basically own the 'free' press in this country, papers like The Sun, which literally tells it's readers that all the reasons their lives arn't everything they want them to be are the faults of these immigrants rather than the actual culprits, the mega-rich who are fucking them over the entire time just so they can masturbate in a pile of cash (figuratively, and perhaps literally).
Have you ever met someone not from the UK? They're usually lovely people! Like someone from the UK except not a miserable, sarky c*nt. I have a colleague from Australia who I assisted with something and they said 'You're the best!' and with that accent I actually believed it! I didn't think 'no need to be sarcastic!' Whenever a foreign national I know is laughing at something that I find funny I have to literally plaster a smile on my face and pretend I feel anything as much as they do! I am so envious of them!
So I bet you're wondering what we're going to do now, eh? The racists have shown that they actually outnumber the tolerant and though hatred (or haters-gonna-hate-ing, as it's now known) is the easier option I feel inspired by the likes of Mohatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jnr and Nelson Mandela who did not turn to the ways of violence but wished to change opinion by peaceful means despite the huge barriers put up whenever you try to have a sensible debate with people who might as well be programmed to be ignorant and intolerant.
At this moment in time we have demonstrated not only that the majority of the people do not wish to remain in the EU, but also perhaps that as a country we do not deserve to be part of something better. A near-even split of opinion says, to me, that things have to change.
This cultural cancer of xenophobia and intolerance needs to be removed from the top down, from the likes of the Brexit leadership and the media-moguls like Rupert Murdoch right down to those at the bottom of the heap who are told by the rich to direct their anger at those most vulnerable within society.
If you believe in this country, like I do, then don't ever give up. You're not alone. Sometimes one has to stare over the lip of the bottomless pit before one knows to pull back and take a deep breath.
Pulling together and embracing our neighbours or all nationalities is the best way to defeat these power-hungry fear-mongerers.
They are the true villains we need to take our country back from - before they divide up the assets and sell the rest of it for scrap.
Save the future of your country
Don't hate - educate.
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