CSotD: You Brexit, You Bought It
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South African Brandan Reynolds posted this look at the little teapot, short and stout, before voters tipped it over and poured it out, and Americans might pay attention to what he suggests was brewing in there.
The view from another colony was no more cheerful in the run up to the vote, as Kenya's Victor Ndula was more specific in the foreboding on behalf of trading partners.
Peattie and Taylor were pretty clearly hedging their bets with today's Alex strip, but it's a safe way to hit the morning papers with a relevant if vague comment on what's next for Britain, because nobody knows what's next but it's a safe bet some of the movers and shakers have also done a bit of hedging.
Of course, Alex works in a more elevated portion of the industry. One analysis I saw — and promptly lost — said management has the task this morning of keeping younger traders motivated despite looming layoffs that will be based on seniority.
Another analysis, this one from the Financial Times, and which I did keep hold of, offers "Brexit in seven charts" and includes this comparison of potential GDP losses if Brexit were to go through, with the top five being independent analyst projections and the last being projections by "Economists for Brexit."
There's more than a small bit of an "I told you so" to the entire piece, which I suppose is justified in that they did, though at this stage it's cold comfort.
And speaking of charts, another strip done well before the vote, and not intended to comment on it in any case, is today's On the Fastrack, which offers a coincidental but worthwhile caution.
Indeed, this chart, from an Aussie article entitled "What Just Happened in the UK Explained in 12 Tweets" shows the impact of the vote on the value of the English pound …
… as does this one from the Independent, which is much less frightening though the author is no less dismayed.
Meanwhile, quantifying the outcome aside, political cartoonists can move with a little more agility than strip writers, and Belgian cartoonist Frédéric duBus depicts the EU sitting down to a most unappetizing and indigestible feast this morning, not only commenting on the outcome of the vote but aiming a sly dig at the well-established differences between English and Continental cuisine.
The impact beyond Britain is a facet that will be explored in cartoons and commentary over the next few days, but there are already speculations on how attempting to trade with both Britain and the EU will shake up markets and how this may play out in terms of breaking up the remaining shards of the Commonwealth.
Australian anti-monarchists may only be dreaming that this will finally kick the Queen off their currency, but it's not in the least unlikely that Scotland will, as many predict, launch another referendum on independence, given the strength of the "stay" vote there, while others are suggesting that Northern Ireland might at last agree to unite the island, which I suppose could happen if the regulatory influence of Brussels would cancel out the sad truth of the old Orange saying "Home Rule is Rome Rule."
In any case, the immediate impact within Britain or England or whatever it's now fated to become is a little less speculative, as Dutch cartoonist Bart Van Leeuwen points out. Prime Minister David Cameron has already announced his resignation, and former London Mayor Boris Johnson appears ascendant.
As Australian David Rowe suggests, in his usual subtle way.
I'm sure there will be more cartoons — and more charts — as the shock wears off and the actual impact emerges.
Meanwhile, I'm just grateful to live in a country where we can be absolutely sure that the voters would never go along with some kind of xenophobic cryptonazi self-destructive nonsense, even if it did somehow manage to find its way onto a ballot.
Never.
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