UKYP-nosis

This concludes my series of political reaction images...for now. I mean, it's not like the current global situation is laughably unstable or anything, I doubt anything will ever top the ridiculousness of the last year...huh? What's that? Another four years of him? Ohhhh boy...

(On a mostly unrelated note: seriously America, what gives? You tried repeatedly to impeach Bill Clinton because he got caught lying ONCE.)

Thankies to zorro-zero for drawing this!



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This is definitely the most obscure reference yet. Those of you not from the UK probably have absolutely no idea, and even those of you who ARE trapped on this rapidly sinking ship might've missed this if you weren't paying attention. So, by way of explanation:

During the buildup to the recent referendum of our membership to the European Union, there was a lot of campaigning on both sides (leave/remain), most of which was either preying on people's fear, prejudice, and sometimes outright stupidity. One 'news' company, the ever reputable Daily Mail (ha, more like Daily Fail, amirite?) decided to publish a list of the most ridiculous laws Europe was attempting to force upon us (fun fact: since we joined the EU, a grand total of 0 pieces of legislation have been passed in the UK by the European Parliament. Yup, you heard that right folks, they haven't actually forced ANY laws upon us. But let's not let a little thing like facts get in the way of our narrative...) and one of these related to working to remove bananas and cucumbers displaying 'abnormal curvature' from our shops. Which, obviously, refers to bananas and cucumbers so ridiculously deformed that they don't even resemble bananas or cucumbers. But, oh no, the Mail spun this as meaning the EU was going to outlaw curvy bananas.
Ridiculous, I know.

So the vote...happened. We're now leaving the European Union, under the fantastic leadership of our (unelected) prime minister Theresa Mayhem. (she has no fucking idea what she's doing.) Lots of the pro-leave campaign's promises started to crumble on day one (I do believe someone promised an extra £350,000,000 a week for the NHS..."Oh, we never promised that!", says Boris, stood directly in front of a massive, bright red bus with "AN EXTRA £350 MILLION A WEEK FOR THE NHS" printed across the side of it.) and, in the ongoing storm of generally terrifying incompetence, the bendy bananas were mostly forgotten about.

Cue an episode of Question Time (a political panel show on the BBC, hosted by current affairs journalist David Dimbleby, featuring a weekly rotating guest panel of MP's, journalists, political activists, etc.) a few months after the vote. In which a woman angrily claims that she decided to vote to leave the second she saw a straight banana in her local supermarket.
The panel, and most of the general viewing public, were left thoroughly confused. Because, yep, ridiculous, I know.
How anyone could genuinely be such a moronic assbrain that they actually thought this was anything to do with our being in Europe, or any kind of valid excuse to justify their bigotry, I don't know. Some kind of post-hypnotic trigger is the only explanation that comes to mind.

At least one good thing to come from this mess is that now, with literally their only goal achieved, the odious UKIP should just curl up and die quietly in the corner, since there is genuinely no point to them existing now. They're, logically, finished, and now is the right time to walk away from the table.
... Right? Guys? Guys?

Also, Brexit. I can't be the only one who thinks that sounds like a kind of breakfast cereal, right?