Brexit Has Turned Into a Bad Monty Python Skit

Like most British people, I am thoroughly fed up with Brexit. It has become a national humiliation. So let me try to sum up what is going on with reference to British cultural exports that I can still feel good about.

There are shades of Lewis Carroll in the government’s actions this week. As old friend James Mackintosh of the Wall Street Journal put it, the government recommended voting against its own motion — and lost. That was Wednesday. On Thursday, the People’s Vote campaign, which exists for the sole purpose of holding a second referendum on Brexit, recommended voting against a people’s vote. It won. Then MPs voted, by a narrow majority, to deny themselves various votes next week. To quote Mackintosh, “It’s up there with Dali doing ‘Wonderland.’”