So, I woke up this morning at like 7:30 AM, having to get up about 5 hours earlier than I really wanted to for a dentist’s appointment, which is already a bad start to my day. I picked up my iPhone, and looked at the news section, expecting some headlines about Trump or the NBA Draft or something. But instead, I’m reading headlines of “Brexit: UK votes “Leave” for EU referendum.” And immediately, one word crosses my mind when I read all of these headlines.
“Shit.”
As I said, I was very tired and grumpy, so if you were expecting something clever, I’m sorry. But really, what the actual frick, England? You can’t just go ahead and be stupid like that. It’s not fair to the rest of the world.
There are several reasons I really have a bone to pick with Boris Johnson and his band of English nationalists winning the “Brexit” vote, which by the way is a name more fitting for some sort of wonder-drug than an agenda focused on leaving the EU. Let’s start with some small things, namely the state of the UK economy and matters of immigration. As expected, the pound took a pounding after the vote, and several companies are looking at the UK right now, and thinking, “Yeah, no, we don’t want to have to deal with… this… right now.” The UK will be free from the EU, at the cost of their economic shit hitting the fan. This leaves out the toll the world economy is taking right now, with stocks nosediving after investors were too confident that the people of the UK knew what they were doing. These messes, combined with the matters of immigration laws and Brexit, which in my opinion have subtle racist implications. As an American, I’ve become quite familiar with people not wanting immigrants to come into our nation, scared of what they might do as our own citizens kill each other on a daily basis.
Now that we’ve gotten past those small issues, let’s move on to some bigger ones, namely the Trump problem and the “student studying international relations” problem.
UK, do you realize what you have done to Trump? You’ve made him have to learn about a new thing, something that he isn’t good at. Do you think he has any idea on what you just did? He thinks owning golf courses in Turnberry counts as having foreign relations with you guys, AND I WISH I WAS USING HYPERBOLE WHEN I SAID THAT! You can’t just test him with this new issue, not when he still has so much to learn. And let’s not forget the part that he agrees with you guys. You just voted on something that Trump says he agrees with. If that isn’t a sign that you messed up royally, I don’t know what is.
And as an college student pursuing a major in International Relations, I count on Europe, particularly Western Europe, as a place of liberal stability, where the most conservative ideas would be deemed as socialist by U.S. conservatives. But now that Brexit happened, that is going by the wayside. Northern Ireland wants to join back up with its Southern half! Scotland wants independence again, something that was just quashed back in 2014! I’ve depended on Western Europe in a way that an NBA team depends on the opposing center to not shoot and make a 3-pointer. Now, the center has developed a shot, and I have to give him my attention as well.
I’m going to read more articles about Ben Simmons and how he will save the Philadelphia 76ers. If the UK doesn’t resolve this by the time I am finished, I will be incredibly nettled.
