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A clip from the 1980s BBC comedy ‘Yes Minister‘ is being shared widely online in the wake of the EU referendum vote.

In it Permanent Secretary Sir Humphrey Appleby explains to minister Jim Hacker why the UK has such a tumultuous relationship with the EU.

Appleby says: “Minister, Britain has had the same foreign policy objective for at least the last five hundred years: to create a disunited Europe.

“In that cause we have fought with the Dutch against the Spanish, with the Germans against the French, with the French and Italians against the Germans, and with the French against the Germans and Italians.

“Divide and rule, you see. Why should we change now, when it’s worked so well?”

Then it gets a bit too real.

Appleby continues: “We had to break the whole thing up, so we had to get inside.

“We tried to break it up from the outside, but that wouldn’t work. Now that we’re inside we can make a complete pig’s breakfast of the whole thing.”

No go and watch the entire series because it’s brilliant.

Perversely powerful finance industry, Imperialism, divide & conquer strategies between and within nations, gunboat diplomacy, international drug dealing, drawing crazy maps in the middle east, international resource stripping, parasitic capitalism - the inbred elites of that tiny island state is the mother of all things bad that still bleed today's world.

The Guardian summed up the dilema....

If he (Boris) runs for leadership of the party, and then fails to follow through on triggering Article 50, then he is finished.
If he does not run and effectively abandons the field, then he is finished. If he runs, wins and pulls the UK out of the EU, then it will all be over -
Scotland will break away, there will be upheaval in Ireland, a recession ... broken trade agreements.
Then he is also finished. Boris Johnson knows all of this. When he acts like the dumb blond it is just that: an act.

In other words it seems that unless something drastic happens then the following chain of events could happen...

1. UK pulls out of EU.
2. Scotland leaves the UK.
3. NI and Wales future uncertain - may decide to go independent too.
4. Effectively you are left with England and Scotland - 2 nations divided.
5. England will then have a worsened North/South Divide.
6. Even Rich cities like London will want more independence.
7. Spanish already want to see Spanish flag on Gibralatar again
8. Argentina can walk in and take the Falklands

9. More European countries will be inspired to do a "exit"
10. End result is a much more divided and poorer Europe

11. Thats when the Russians (Military Power) and China (Economic power) and others come knocking
to play divide, rule, or conquer

UK IN MELTDOWN:


Disunited Kingdom

Leaving aside the place of Britain in Europe, the referendum has cast uncertainty upon the future of the U.K. as a whole. Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced soon after the result that she would be seeking a second independence referendum and for Scotland to remain a part of the EU after Scots voted overwhelmingly to remain.

In addition, several nationalist politicians in Northern Ireland (where, likewise, the vote was generally to remain a part of the bloc) also called for the country to be reunited with the Republic of Ireland.

With the existence of the U.K. as a united entity at risk and the political establishment in meltdown, Alastair Campbell, who was director of communications for former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair, told CNBC on Sunday that the U.K. was in "a pretty dangerous state" following the vote.

"I certainly think that we're in a pretty parlous and perilous state right now. The country has taken a monumental decision without a lot of people really being clear about what the consequences might be, a lot of people that voted for it now realizing that they were lied to pretty systematically by those that campaigned," he said.

"You've got a government in turmoil with a leadership vacuum, you've got the Labour party in turmoil with a leadership vacuum and you've got some really unpleasant stuff going on in Britain as well. Lots of racially-motivated attacks and some really disgusting stuff here and I think it's really sad."