The New Yorker talks Brexit this week with Barry Blitt’s “Silly Walk Off a Cliff”

On: June 27, 2016, By: Bill Young

As Britain attempted to make sense of the seemingly impossible victory for the ‘Vote Leave’ campaign last Thursday, The New Yorker‘s best of the best began gathering to find their usual brilliant way of making light of what is sure to be a frightening sea of uncertainty for those that will be affected the most by The UK’s departure from the EU. What better way to begin than to evoke the with and wisdom of Monty Python’s Flying Circus and John Cleese’s iconic Ministry of Silly Walks sketch.

Having just celebrated their 90th year of publication, every issue of The New Yorker brilliantly combines the use of commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry to deliver spot on explanation of the world around us. Needless to say, their collective talents were put to the ultimate test this week after the recent Brexit vote. While it’s hard enough for UK residents to fully grasp what Thursdays vote actually means and what the next steps are, it’s even more confusing for those outside the UK to understand what this will mean worldwide.

“I was stunned when I heard the news this morning,” Barry Blitt says, of Britain’s decision to leave the European Union, the subject of his cover for the upcoming issue of The New Yorker. “And really upset,” Blitt adds. “I just sent money to my kid, who’s travelling over there—if I had just waited, I’d have saved a bundle now that the pound has collapsed.”

For more on Brexit, you can read Anthony Lane on the run-up, John Cassidy on what happens next, Amy Davidson on the implications for Trump, Benjamin Wallace-Wells talk ‘the day after Brexit‘, and Ed Caeser on the vote in the M.P. Jo Cox’s district. Or you can look at Kim Warp’s cartoon. Françoise Mouly has been the art editor at The New Yorker since 1993.

If you’re like me and are in need of more explanation, there’s always the genius of Andy Borowitz, who usually delivers the knockout punch with The Borowitz Report.

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Adrian Johnson

Americans are clueless. They don’t know that the Libson Treaty, (constitution of the European Union) eventually requires ALL member states to adopt “Corpus Juris”: a version of Continental Law, derived from Napoleonic Law, which he adapted to serve the state from the law of the Inquisition — used by the Catholic Church, but adapted to serve the State.

This would have meant the UK giving up the fairest legal system on the planet, English Common Law, which the USA itself (as well as Canada, Australia, and New Zealand) uses. The philosophy of English Common law is “everything is permitted unless forbidden by law”. Continental Law in all its versions holds that “nothing is permitted unless permitted by law.” Continental law presumes human rights are granted by the state (and conversely, can be revoked by the state) English Common Law, (whose most eloquent expression is the US Constitution and Bill of Rights) considers that human rights are God-given and therefore inalienable by the state. Which do you prefer (even if you’re an atheist)?

If Britain had stayed in the EU, it would mean giving up the rights of habeas corpus, trial by jury of one’s peers, “innocent until proven guilty” and safety from double jeopardy. Corpus Juris doesn’t like such inefficiencies — you are guilty until presumed innocent, can be held any length of time without a definite charge; and at trial are judged by three professional judges! If acquitted, you can later be re-tried for the same offense.

Americans would never submit to Corpus Juris– why would they expect Brits to, as the price of fostering a socialist-lite political vision of European Unity, in a supra-state, and the dubious economic advantages of the “single market”? Britain originally only joined the EEC for the market. When it transmogrified itself into a super-state wannabe, Brits said, “Hey, this is not what we signed up for!”
Brexit is the level-headed, freedom-loving British public reasserting that they are NOT Continental, however much they like Europe; and that they don’t want to be ruled by foreign laws imposed by foreigners who don’t have British interests at heart.
- Bendys
  
  Americans have the stalinist Patriot Act. And in all the 5Eyes there are more and more rules designed to enslave the people. All the alphabet agencies are pushing for laws which consider everybody a terr0rist until proven innocent. That is.. if the state allows anybody to prove their innocence.
  I’m afraid the criminal NWO is already here.
Captain_America

The EU was destined to fail no matter how much money, resources, and efforts the UK poured into it because at its source it is nothing but a massive socialist income redistribution scheme benefiting a handful of EU elitists who are so greedy and clueless that they have allowed the European continent to be eaten alive by massive in migration from the third world, the majority being dirt poor, illiterate, backward, and very hostile to western culture and utterly resistant to assimilation into the modern world. The rest of Europe should follow Britain’s example and get out of the EU as fast as they can.