Rod Liddle Rod Liddle

How it all went right: The great Brexit wound has almost healed

It didn’t take a generation – it took about two weeks

issue 01 February 2020

They are getting themselves terribly worked up about that new 50 pence coin commemorating our departure from the European Union. By ‘they’ I mean those people in the Brexit Derangement Syndrome intensive care ward, wired up to saline drips, attended to day and night, occasionally afforded a few thousand volts of ECT when things get really bad, but still foaming, still beside themselves with apoplexy.

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