This is the darkest day for Britain since the Second World War and a day that also marks the beginning of the end of the UK.

What a scared, narrow minded, backwards little country England has become? There are millions of people who don’t look like Boris Johnson who will be waking up in England today shit scared of the mobs that will now feel that their neo-fascist inclinations have been vindicated. Not everyone who voted for ‘Brexit’ is a football hooligan but you can bet the house that every single one of those neo-nazi thugs voted with Boris and his band of extremists. Within 3 months (unless in the interim, he becomes the most reviled man in the Britain), Boris Johnson will be hoping to be the prime minister of the UK. This was always his objective, and what a self-serving and miserable objective that was. Boris will be well pleased with himself but his reckless indifference to the welfare of his fellow citizens, most of whom do not have his intelligence, knowledge, political judgement or privileged Etonian background, is gobsmacking in its audacity.

So craven is this lust for power, I think many would suggest, it’s a safe bet that if David Cameron had supported ‘Brexit’, Boris would have led the campaign to stay.

Scotland, who overwhelmingly supported the vote to stay in the EU, will surely now vote to leave the UK and to remain in the EU, before the final English exit from Europe within the next 2 years.

Northern Ireland also voted heavily to remain in the EU so it’s very likely that there’ll be a renewed push for Irish unification and continued EU membership (as part of Ireland). As part of Europe the border between the north and the rest of Ireland, had become nebulous and increasingly unimportant with residents freely crossing north and south. With ‘Brexit’, Britain will have only one land border between itself and Europe and that will be the contentious border in Northern Ireland. The reinstatement of formal border controls between the two parts of Ireland (one British, the other, Europe), will only heighten the separation and open old wounds and renew tension and troubles. Northern Ireland, Deputy First Minister, Martin McGuinness (Sinn Féin) has already called for an Irish unity vote. It’s hard to imagine that the Good Friday accord, that ended the violence in Northern Ireland, won’t be severely tested, with the fury this vote will unleash in Belfast.

And apart from the turmoil that this vote and the disintegration of the UK will bring to Britons, there’s also the inevitable retribution from Germany and France that will follow this vote. As an example to the rest of Europe, they will be relentless in punishing Britain for ‘Brexit’. They will ensure that there’s no business-as-usual in trade and access to the EU. Doors will close, phone calls will go unanswered and a big chunk of Britain’s biggest industry, financial services, will move to Dublin and Frankfurt.

When the dust finally settles on this calamity, England will shrink into real obscurity. Sooner than might otherwise have happened, Britain, as we know it, will cease to exist and in all probability, will have a doubtful hold on its UN P5 place, and with it the last vestige of its hollow imperial greatness. What a great price Britain will pay for Boris Johnson’s hissy fit vanity project. And what a great price they will bear for David Cameron’s lack of leadership and courage to face down the call for this referendum in the first place.

There are clear moments in history when leadership failure has had catastrophic consequence: one when Neville Chamberlain arrived back in London waving his capitulation to Adolph Hitler and proclaiming he’d achieved “Peace for our time”, months before Hitler invaded Poland; and another when David Cameron secured his place as prime minister by agreeing to this referendum but at the cost of the very country he so desperately wanted to rule.

With this cataclysmic vote, the march towards a new neo-fascist rise in Europe now seems almost unstoppable. Hungary and Poland already have Eurosceptic far right governments with neo-fascist undertones. France’s own far right National Front, who are also campaigning to leave the EU, is already the second largest party in that country. Even Denmark, a former poster child for progressive social and economic values, has lurched troublingly to the right under its new radical hard-right prime minister and, has distanced itself from the European project.

Only a few years ago the European Union was controversially awarded the Nobel Peace Prize with the citation: “for over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe”. That hope for: that peace; that reconciliation; that democracy; and that human rights is now in tatters.

What a very sad day.

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