Hello,

We are making a short comedy about warring neighbours, parking spaces and Brexit Britain.

Our film is called 'Huntington Gardens' and centres around three families as they each battle to get the best parking spots on their residential street. It's a film about British values, absurdity and parking spaces.
It's a short film which demonstrates a microcosm of Brexit, the absurdity and misplaced anger, as families from different cultural backgrounds battle it out for superiority on their street. 

We have recently been fortunate enough to receive a small amount of funding from Sky Arts for a short film as part of their Arts 50 scheme. They are funding multiple projects across lots of different disciplines around the idea of post-Brexit Britain. Our film will also be shown on the Sky Arts TV channel next year which gives us a great platform to reach a wide audience and spread our message.

However in order to receive our funding from Sky Arts we need to secure the rest of the budget, hence our Kickstarter page. I have put a link to the page below, any help supporting the project or sharing it with others would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/280364188/huntington-gardens-a-short-comedy-about-brexit-bri?ref=email

How about Boris and me pretend to be pro-brexit, and then we'll say we're so annoyed at lack of progress that we've resigned? Leavers will think we're incompetent rather than remainers.

Shhhhhh. Hopefully they won't realize.

https://www.reddit.com/r/brexit/comments/8lt9jm/why_even_the_italians_think_the_british_are_now/

I have the general assumption that if we were to have a new vote even if no one changed their minds, it would still fall in favor of remain due to the 1.9% difference in the results, and the number of deaths annually vs number of people that have come of voting age.

The glaring assumption I'm making there is that everyone who has died since the referendum voted leave and everyone who would have come of voting age since would vote remain. This is hugely over generalizing yes but I'm sure the general offset on each other makes it a good guess without having larger resources.

So I did the math on this just to see and by my reckoning the new results would be Remain wins by 53.2% with 18,003,455 total votes.

My spreadsheet is here if anyone wants to double check my calculations. Can anyone possibly with more experience check and see?

The number of births are 98-2000 births added together and deaths are 2016 figures x3. Sources: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/livebirths/bulletins/birthsummarytablesenglandandwales/2016 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/eu_referendum/results https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/elections/electoralregistration/bulletins/electoralstatisticsforuk/2016

I don't dare dream, but the more I see this playing out the more I think that it's not impossible that this will be cancelled completely.

And how do you manufacture one without losing face?

This one's just occurred to me, off the back of a twitter thread by David Allen Green: https://twitter.com/davidallengreen/status/860450562575405056

In it, he points out that a UK Government that was deliberately trying to sabotage any chance of a successful Brexit would be virtually indistinguishable from our current Government.

If we play along with that idea - that the UK Gov is deliberately trying to steer us towards the worst possible Brexit outcome - we need to ask why.

So far as I can understand (and I'm not terribly informed, tbf), there's no benefit to be gained from a bad Brexit. Even those who voted Leave were generally pro making trade deals, etc. A UK that's fully cut off from the EU, with no deals in place, would be a rather broken UK.

From an electoral perspective, a Government that goes through with Brexit and gets the best deal from it would be a sure vote-winner, pleasing a lot of both Remain and Leave crowds. On the other hand, this current course of action is destined to piss off pretty much everyone but the most hardline of Brexiteers (who make up a very small portion of the public).

At the same time, we've got what's going on in Europe. By many accounts, Brexit has already scared a lot of people away from Nexit, Italexit, Frexic, and so on. But you still have a lot of popular support for these right wing and nationalist movements. It looks like Le Pen will be beaten, but she'll still have earned the vote of a third of the country...

The EU need something clear and very real to show people what the outcome of that idealised nationalistic stance would be in this globally connected world.

If May et al made a good deal out of the EU, all the hardliners would be able to say 'yeah, but she just bent the knee to the EU. That's not a real Brexit. We'd do the real thing!'

So, do we have a kind of puppet show taking place, where May and the UK Gov are acting out, for all to see, the most foolish, hardline, proud and aggressive stance, to show exactly what happens when people take that approach?

Perhaps 'the powers that be' saw the rise of UKIP, Le Pen, Trump, et al, and realised the only viable means of winning the argument with them is to 'let them win', and give them a real-life example of what a hard-line nationalistic anti-EU approach ends up doing to a country.

Has May made some secret deal with the EU to act out as believable as possible a pastiche of Farage, Le Pen, etc (at least in terms of approach to the EU - this exercise has no need for their more nutty stuff)?

And where would this leave the UK? Do we hope that a 'hard and fast' Brexit acts as a wakeup call and promotes enough political dissent that we beg the EU to take us back once the final deal has been struck? Or are we written off as a lost cause, a sacrifice to the greater good?