Satiricus was confused. Not an unusual situation, he thought. Satiricus accepted he wasn’t exactly the brightest bulb in the room. Any room.
“But what the heck’s going on over in the Mother Country?” he asked his friend Cappo plaintively.
“Mudda who??” replied Cappo, who was busy waving his hands in the air vainly trying to get the attention of the bar girl at the Back Street Bar.
“Mother COUNTRY, Cappo!” said Satiricus with some degree of exasperation. “Didn’t you read that Britain just voted to leave the EU?”
“Yuh mean “Brexit”? Cappo asked with a raised eyebrow. He had just given his order for two beers.
“Yes. ‘Britain Exit’. Have you forgotten Britain was our Mother Country?” snapped Satiricus.
“But na fifty year abee get independence fram dem?” asked Cappo. “Abee na just celebrate Jubilee? How laang dem guh be abee Mumma?”
“Look, Cappo. Everything we learn…we learnt from the British. So they’ll always be our Mother Country.”
“Suh wha wraang wid Brexit?”Cappo asked with feigned innocence. He was just starting on his second beer. Satiricus was still buying.
“EVERYTHING’s wrong with Brexit, Cappo,” moaned Satiricus. “Europe was good for Britain economically. But the majority of poor people listen to the politicians blaming Europe for crime and stuff.”
“Like in de las’ election in Guyana w’en KFC blame PPCEE fuh everyt’ing”?” Cappo asked slyly. “Wha’ else happen?”
“Well, the newspapers all started blaming Polish immigrants for taking away people’s jobs, when in fact they were doing low-paying jobs no one else wanted,” said Satiricus indignantly.
“Like how de Muckraker bin blame de Chinee people wha come in Guyana fuh sell cheap goods?” smiled Cappo, nodding his head.
“What you trying to say, Cappo?”
“Budday! ‘e look like abee prappa larn plenty tings fram abee Mudda Country!”
Satiricus looked closer at Cappo to see if he was mocking him. He decided Cappo wasn’t. But then, even Satiricus had concluded he was a dim bulb.
“Well, Cappo, there is one thing we didn’t learn from the British,” he confessed.
“Wha’ da?” inquired Cappo.
“Their Prime Minister resigned when it was clear he made a mistake. That would NEVER happen here.”
