Politicians don't always lie. Sometimes their promises come true in the most hideous way possible; there are glimpses of the rule-by-enchanted-monkey's-paw that dominates our lives. Take, for example, Brexit. Throughout last year's campaign and beyond, the British people were promised that Brexit would not mean the U.K. retreating into itself, hiding away from a world that no longer makes sense and marinating in its own boggy parochialism. Instead, in Theresa May's repeated phrase, it would see the birth of a “truly global Britain”: The country would heft itself flapping out of the EU's stagnant little pond and head for the wide-open ocean. Brexit Britain would claim its old heritage, a seaborne people, roving the world for profit and opportunity.
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