Why ‘woke’ is now just a right-wing fetish

There’s been a late entry in the competition for most cretinous misunderstanding of international trade policy. For anyone who’s been distracted by the ongoing meltdown of the global order, this week Britain finally signed a deal with the EU. The deal is sane and sensible enough to be slighty disappointing all round, which has not stopped the post-truth peanut gallery from freaking out.

For the Brexit fundamentalists, any form of deal, indeed the whole business of international diplomacy, is now for cucks and simps. If we were real patriots, we’d be marching through Normandy with the muskets out and banners flying to force the French to buy our sausages.
There is no place for grown-up politics in the febrile imagination of the terminally anti-woke. 

For former MEP Dan Hannan, this relatively inoffensive deal means that ‘Britain will become the EU’s gimp, trussed up in black leather and zips, with a ball-gag in its mouth.’