Brexit and Labour Party Armageddon - because you haven't heard enough about either subject today

Only a political party run by the hard left could manage it. This morning's (evidently pre-Hilary Benn sacking) <i>Telegraph</i> headline screamed "TORIES AT WAR". A gift, you'd think, for the main opposition party. Only it hasn't quite turned out that way? Let's face it, only a politician as goofy and inept (and left-wing) as Jeremy Corbyn could have reduced Her Majesty's Opposition to such an abject shambles at the very moment it should have been powering ahead in the polls (not, of course, that we need ever pay any attention to them ever again). I am heartbroken that... no, I can't manage it: it's just all so deliciously <i>funny</i>. Not that many of my friends are exactly laughing their heads off..<br />
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I say friends, but I suppose I mean "friends", really. I've been on Facebook for years but, because it's an unsuitable platform for airing one's political views (I usually "unfriend" anyone who does so), I never bother posting anything on it. I quite enjoy catching up on what old work colleagues and relatives are getting up to (lots of my Norwegian cousins share their doings on it, which is nice). I only check my timeline (or whatever it's called) every to weeks or so - and then only after receiving an email nudge from Facebook. Yesterday, I took a gander, only to encounter a tsunami of hatred, grief, angst and depression. One friend was telling everyone that Leave won because of&nbsp;"ignorant Sun readers and ageing parochials". <i>Gee, thanks!</i> Several assured me that Out voters had destroyed their children's future. Others were absolutely positive that a way would be found to overturn the result (I suppose if you approve of your laws being devised by unelected bureaucrats, you're not really a fan of democracy in any case). Others urged me to sign a petition to overturn the result (a petition whose signatories include 33,000 residents of Vatican City, where 800 people live, many from North Korea, and quite a few from the Arctic). I'm not sure why signing a petition that says "I didn't like the result" might result in the will of over 17,000,000 British (and, for some reason, Irish) voters being thwarted, but if it makes Remainers feel better, well, okay, I suppose.<br />
I find the point about young people's future being destroyed by ignorant, selfish, old bastards particularly perplexing. Here are some statistics to ponder:<br />
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Turnout by age group: 18-24: 36% 25-34: 58% 35-44: 72% 45-54: 75% 55-64: 81% 65+: 83%<br />
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Presumably, if the 64% of young folk who couldn't be arsed to vote had actually done so, the result would have been different, and their future in the dynamic, prosperous, popular, outward-looking, freedom-loving EU would have been assured.<br />
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Yes, but... they'd been lied to by the Leave campaign! Yes, indeed. They'd also been lied to - far more brazenly - by the Remain camp.<br />
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But the Leavers didn't have a proper plan! No, they didn't. But as they weren't running for office, they didn't need to. Similarly, it was the government's job to come up with a plan for what to do if the country voted to leave the EU: the fact that it evidently hasn't is bizarre.<br />
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The fact that a larger portion of older people voted to leave couldn't be more irrelevant. Post-referendum polls (them again) suggest that the main concern of the majority of Out voters