I say, excuse me? Iâm British, and I came here to say, ah, mm. Canât argue with that.
[Drums fingers, waits for someone to argue with that.]
My brotherâs been riffing on this over the week:
âHow did you vote?â said Pooh
âLeave,â said Piglet
âWhy was that?â said Pooh
âWell Iâm just fed up of being pushed around by faceless European bureaucrats and Iâm fed up of my country being taken over by foreigners. I go into parts of the hundred acre wood and I donât see a British face anywhere. I want my wood back,â said Piglet
âIâm really surprised you feel that way,â said Pooh
âWell itâs not all foreigners, but last week Eeyore was pushed into a river by a âTiggerâ and I just thought, âhow has this happened? I was going to report it to Owl but, political correctness now, I was afraid they would report me for racism and say that it was the Tiggerâs right to push people into rivers because that was part of his culture,â said Piglet
âIâm not sure thatâs true; and Tiggerâs not even from the EU. Heâs Indian. His being here has nothing to do with free movement within the EU,â said Pooh
âWell weâve got to get some control anyway, people are coming over here and theyâre taking our benefits and our jobs and sending money back to their countries. Itâs out of control. Anyway, how did you vote?â said Piglet
âOh I couldnât vote, Iâm from Sweden,â said Pooh
âBut your English is so good,â said Piglet
âWell yeah Iâve been studying it since primary school,â said Pooh
âI really thought you were English,â said Piglet
âHow many bears do you know that were born in the UK?â
âI guess that makes sense"
âAre we still friends?"
âNot fucking really Piglet"
Sadly very true except for the teeny bit racist. Farage has spent the last 17 years encouraging racism, and it has borne fruit.
Ah well.
A gentlemenâs club in Hell.
Mitterand: Mon Dieu! Les Anglais se sont suicidés!
(we now follow the subtitles)
De Gaulle: What is up, Mitterand?
Mitterand: The English have voted to leave the European Community!
De Gaulle: Donât make jokes, Mitterand.
Mitterand: It is true, our special agent has succeeded.
De Gaulle: What special agent?
Pompidou: It is true, my General. For seventeen years we have had a secret agent in place, M. Farage. He has succeeded in separating Britain from the EU.
De Gaulle: You meanâŠthe defeat of 1975 is avenged?
Pompidou: Yes. Without a shot being fired, he has wrecked perfidious Albion.
Mitterand: What about our friends the Scots?
Pompidou: They hope to make other arrangements.
De Gaulle: This calls for champagne. Someone invite Lucifer. And Churchill.
Mitterand: Churchill?
De Gaulle: Of course he must be present to witness the downfall of England and my revenge for his insults during the Second World War.
Pompidou: But are we to waste champagne on Churchill?
De Gaulle: Good point. Garcon! A jeroboam of the Crystal Lucifer likes so much. And half a pint of warm beer, flat as ink.
(All politicians go to Hell. They find it congenial, temperate and easygoing after national politics.)*
[Edit - A A Milne though famous for the childrenâs books was something of a polymath and a successful playwright. He is also responsible for this comment, which may endear him to some readers:
âThe Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbeliefâcall it what you willâthan any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counter-attractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.â]
[edit edit - and of course they can always find a good* lawyer and tax accountant when they need one.]
** Well, not good in that sense, obviously, or theyâd be in the other place. Good in the sense of being a slimy weaselling master of procedure with the goods on a number of judges and a bottomless appetite for money.
As usual for UK voters many people cast their ballot with little basis in reality. I guarantee that at least 25% of the outers thought their vote would stop immigration from the EU which is clearly not the case as free movement will still stand.
I work with a colleague who seems to have voted, âleaveâ because they donât like the metric system. Either that, or they are incapable of articulating their actual dissatisfaction. I voted âstayâ, because fuck the Tories.
Will it, though?
If Johnson and his merry band are forced to choose between keeping access to the single market and getting rid of free movement, which way will Murdoch tell them to jump? Johnsonâs tied himself to the UKIP crazy train now, heâs got to keep them happy or his vote will dissolve.
Iâd be fairly happy with staying in the EEA and doing a Norway, but only because thatâs as close as we could get to where we are now. Weâd keep paying, keep free movement (which is a very good thing) and just lose our seat at the table to write the rules. But thatâs not what the Leavers voted for.
Excuse me? Iâm an American, and I heard someone wanted to argue? 
I think you need the next thread over, it is about Gun Control.
Winnie the Pooh in a bowler is something that really needs to exist in plush form.
This isnât Arguement, this is Abuse. You want 12B, down the hall.
No, I really donât. Please donât make me go over to gun control. Iâll be good, I promise.
Poles are usually light skinned though.
And this is why I come here. Thank you. 
It seems like it was the major issue. And now the âleaveâ campaigners are very disingenuously pretending it was never about immigration now that itâs clear nothing will change in that regard.
I think he misused âinnit,â but otherwise a great comic.
