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Brexit & Spygate — Beyond le Carré
As the Anglophone world circles the drain, subterfuge divides the people who could save it.
David Cornwell was both spy catcher and spy in Britain’s MI5 and MI6 before he became John le Carré, and enthralled the rest of us with tales of the cloak and dagger world. His complex characters and plots, while completely contrived, felt real. However, had he penned the plot that’s paralyzing the Anglophone world now, we’d have laughed in his face.
The entire concept seems too contrived to be true. But — it is.
Britain’s Prime Minister, Theresa May is coming off one of the most lopsided Parliamentary defeats in history. Her Brexit plan went down two-to-one. With no alternative in sight and the no-deal deadline two months away, Britain is circling the Brexit drain. May desperately needs something Donald Trump could give.
With Robert Mueller’s Special Counsel’s report hanging over his head and voters split on what to believe about Donald Trump’s rumored Russian ties, America’s circling the drain of division. Trump desperately needs something Theresa May could give.
May and Trump aren’t alone in this; both publics, British and American are almost equally split on what they think of Brexit and Spygate and what should be done about…
