A British Coup?

Over-the-top, copy-selling headline from The Sunday Times today.

It's always interesting watching the elite wrestling with the imperfect levers of governance to bring about the result they really want. The referendum result would have been reversed in a second if not for their inchoate, pervasive fear of the 52%.

Who are these people? We never meet them. No sign of them within the boundaries of the M25.

We know that the left petty-bourgeoisie, the metropolitan bubble-people, lined up for Remain. If the great reversal project progresses during the next weeks through a vote of confidence in May's government (to be lost) and then a general election, what will the Leave-voting working class do? No respectable party speaks to their concerns (Blue Labour, as championed by Rod Liddle, is dead in the water).

A general election with the Tory party in chaos and the Labour Party obfuscating and trying to change the subject - that would be a sight to behold. My tentative projection is that the Tory vote would collapse, the Labour vote would hold up and we would finally get to see what a Corbyn government would do.

No wonder they're cautious.

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It's ironic really. The Theresa May strategy was always to retain the economic benefits of EU membership while continuing to maintain social cohesion by implementing the strict letter of Leave. It was always  'BREXIT in name only'.

The British elite, in its arrogance and short-term greed, has run roughshod over this mildly-intelligent plan. Do they really think a Corbyn government has their neoliberal interests at heart? That rather widespread popular expectations of a new socialist way forward will be so easy to endlessly subvert? They have learned nothing from M. Macron's experiences.

Such hubris: they can be very stupid at times.