Anyone remember Brexit? That thing where Britons voted by a healthy majority it leave the European Union? Yeah, well surprise surprise, it looks like it won’t happen this decade, if ever. On August 14th, the Sunday Times came out with a report suggesting that the new UK government will likely delay the move until late 2019. Says Reuters, quoting the Sunday Times,

But British government ministers have warned senior figures in the City of London, London’s financial district, that Article 50 was unlikely to be triggered early in 2017 because the situation in government was “chaotic”, the Sunday Times reported on Sunday.

After noting that the situation in government was “chaotic”, the Sunday Times continued (not really) by quoting another source that said that the sky was “blue”. The newspaper then won the Pulitzer immediately for its groundbreaking Sunday Times Sunday scoop. The Monday Times then repeated the story the next day and won some other award granted by establishment elites.

Back to Sobriety Times now. This delay comes as no surprise, except for the fact that I expected the delay to be triggered by some sort of plausible excuse other than “the situation in government is chaotic,” really a groundbreaking situation there. God forbid a terrorist attack, a debt crisis flair up, the Government has a headache so no Brexit tonight honey, or some other whatever to trigger a delay I believed was more reasonable, but we didn’t even get that. We just got a delay for no reason at all, and UK voters don’t seem to care all that much. Nigel Farage retired too early it seems. If he cared about Brexit so much, he should have stayed on until the process was completed. Referenda may be technically expensive, but in the end they are cheap.  As a reminder, just before the vote I had said,