Oh hey tumblr, it’s been a while 🤪
for people who don’t live in britain right now
- on thursday we had a referendum, which is like x factor but with ramifications
- it did not go well
- 51.9% of people voted to leave the european union
- so now we are leaving the eu
- the “leave” campaign promised we’d have more money to spend on the nhs and less immigration if we left the eu
- a few hours after they won they said this won’t happen
- they also said they have no plan
- like, on live tv
- they said this
- no one has a plan
- the value of the pound crashed
- our prime minister resigned
- the conservative party, who are in power, are now wondering who should be in charge
- at the moment it’s looking like a walking wig or a woman who views human rights as a minor inconvenience will be running the country by september
- the labour party, who are in opposition, are arguing about who should be in charge
- their leader is jeremy corbyn. imagine a british bernie sanders who looks as if he’s wondering if he left the gas on. that is him. basically he was elected to run for labour leader as a joke and then he actually ended up winning it. now everyone is walking out on him
- the lib dems say they will ignore brexit and keep britain in the eu
- do you know who the lib dems are? no, no one does, they used to be a thing but now they have 8 mps
- their mps can literally share a table at nandos
- our chancellor of the exchequer gave a speech to try to calm the stock markets down
- the stock markets calmed down for a bit
- then it lost its chill and we lost our aaa credit rating
- this is bad because economy things??? its complicated
- oh yeah and we just got kicked out of the euros
- the euros is football, actual football, im looking at you america with your football that does not involve feet in a significant way
- so we have effectively left europe twice in one week
- scotland want to leave britain
- ireland want to leave britain
- and wimbledon started today
- wimbledon, okay
- normally, the big story
- the only news story
- at this time of the year
- is wimbledon
- and now
- the country is falling apart
- and the news does not know what to do
- because it opens with “brexit is happening and we’re all freaking out” and ends with “british chances at wimbledon are looking good this year”
- as if they’re forgetting
- no one is running the country right now
- carol i don’t care about the weather for wimbledon i care about THE ECONOMY
- we are all confused and also the weather is awful
This is awesome. i can barely dance with shoes, and he’s killing it in roller blades
Go awf
(via blackfashion)
