Waking up with a hangover after the Brexit referendum, even English football players were unable to perform.
In the mean time a barrage of bad economic news continues to be churned out, scaring many half decided Brexiteers and also misguided Dutch, French and others on the continent of the consequences of leaving the EU.
EU officials hammer the UK insisting they move quickly to start the exit proceedings.
Financial markets have calmed, however.
Notable Brexiteers like Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage have disappeared from the scene. A new Prime Minister is being appointed by the Queen today. She is a pragmatist tough lady who is in favour of remaining, yet publicly pledges to abide by the referendum.
She follows the script of declaring to move to an exit and will announce a serious pro-Brexit politician to a special cabinet post to oversee negotiations with the EU. He/she will get so entangled with an obstructive EU that will insist on free movement of people in return for EU market access, that he/she will take ages to get anywhere and eventually fail. UK public opinion will discuss fiercely, smearing him/her and anyone else for betraying the will of the people, etc, etc, etc. Media will have a great party with so much blabla to report on.
So far, everything goes according to the plan Cameron and EU leaders (in my theory) secretly agreed upon shortly after the referendum.
The bad news, the EU insistence and the UK infighting will further convince the people that they made a bad choice. As I said before: The Brexit is not going to happen.
After a few months and possibly a new general parliamentary election in the UK, the landscape will have changed such that UK declares not to pursue on the referendum result and all will be kind of OK again. Except that the UK will have lost some reputation and thus power in the EU.
Few articles hint to this possible outcome. Most are written in the spirit that the Brexit is inevitable. All according to the script J
I hope the EU takes this wake-up call to come together and appear more democratic.