What The Usa Might Think Of Brexit

[fender62]

very funny..sort of accurate and the readers comments and the end is equally amusing.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-7433103/RICHARD-LITTLEJOHN-Just-imagine-think-watch-Parliament.html

[youngmafbog]

Well the old septics often have similar problems in their Government dont they - take for instance the reusing of budgets causing public sector workers to be unpaid.

[Gromit]

Is that the same Richard Littlejohn who lives in the United States ?

His twice weakly Mail pieces about the State of play in the UK, are not on-the-spot observations, but musings dreamed up 4,000 miles away in his beachside home. Paid for from his £1million salary (paid in dollars naturally).

[spathiphyllum]

"But didn’t they promise to respect the result of the referendum?

Yes, they did, but they didn’t mean it.

So they lied to the British people?

That’s a big Ten-four, Chad.

I thought President Maggie May said that Brexit would mean Brexit.

She did. She also said that no deal was better than a bad deal. But she didn’t mean that either. She came back from Brussels with a bad deal that nobody liked.

What was the problem?

Something to do with a bus stop on the island of Irelandland and having to build a wall in the sea."

banter

[retrocop]

No envy there then Gromit. :-)

[dannyk13]

Gromit, you do not have to actually live somewhere to write a commentary on what is happening there.I have always found his column both factual and entertaining.

[Ken4155]

Not all that amusing, is it really? All he's done is play with people's names and report basically what's happening. A tad juvenile, imvho.

[Togo]

//His twice weakly Mail pieces about the State of play in the UK, are not on-the-spot observations//sic

They are a damn sight more accurate than yours, and you are here writ large 24/7 convinced that you are our resident wiseacre.

[spathiphyllum]

"A tad juvenile, imvho."

A bit like the whole brexit charade then.

[Gromit]

John Bercow has a cult following in the USA after Ex-Pat John Oliver started showing clips of him on his prime-time TV show...

[dannyk13]

Gromit, how is Bercow relevant to this thread?

[Gromit]

Rather than read some prattling from a man on a long holiday who has just watched the News on BBC America, looking at the US press is a far more accurate way of gauging what they think of us.

I am enjoying this from the ‘New Yorker’ magazine...

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/in-latest-humiliation-boris-johnsons-dog-resigns-as-his-pet

[Gromit]

Dannyk13

It is relevant because Littlejohn’s piece is about Americans laughing AT us.

[Gromit]

// Trying to make sense of the Brexit debacle is maddening enough, even if you live here. //

Which he doesn’t, he lives in Palm Beach, Florida.

// it’s time once again to cross to our U.S. affiliate, Eye Witness News, in Palm Beach. //

Eye Witness as in Littlejohn himself watching the telly in Florida.

No wonder he is a big supporter of Liar Boris, when he writes fake news for a living.

[cassa333]

That was very funny and in its light hearted way sums up the UK parliament to a tee.

[Togo]

Littlejohn was born and raised in the UK. He has held numerous positions in the broadcasting and journalism industries starting as a cub reporter at the age of 16. The fact that he prefers to spend a large portion of the year living in the Florida sunshine does not mean that he is unqualified to comment on and mock the establishment and the puerile shenanigans of the house of commotions. Wonder how long Gromit spends in America that makes him such an expert on all things American and Trump in particular?

[fender62]

does anyone remember, there used to be a radio show i think, where there was a brit who gave his musings on america, odd stories etc ?

[davebro]

" there used to be a radio show i think"

If you mean Alistair Cooke's Letter from America it was brilliant, informative & insightful. I think it's still available as podcasts somewhere including some recordings that were originally lost but retrieved from avid fans. Bit dated now, of course.

[Gromit]

Sir Alistair Cooke - Letter from America

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00f6hbp

[fender62]

thanks for that, Alistair Cooke's Letter from America, i used to like
listening to that, amusing insightful.

[Rationalist]

I listened to this every morning this week;
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0001t90

Neil MacGregor explores how five major countries see Britain -

Poland
Australia
Spain
The USA
Singapore
India
Canada
Nigeria
Egypt
Germany

I thought the USA was the funniest - a mixture of Hogwarts, Downton Abbey and James Bond, while Poland was the saddest.

All worth a listen, in my view, though some may find that the views do not match the UK's view of itself.