A rightwing French mayor has renamed a street in his town “rue de Brexit”, but the joke quickly rebounded on him when it emerged that the thoroughfare in question was a circular road to nowhere.
Julien Sanchez called his decision to baptise the street in the southern town of Beaucaire an “homage to the decision of the sovereign British people” to leave the European Union.
Er, thanks, I think…
Have you noticed that nowadays anyone not on the extreme left is labelled right wing?
Oh, yes, I’ve noticed. Like racist and islamophobe, it has lost its meaning.
What’s he going to do with Frexit, Itexit, Nexit etc.?
The piece also stated that “The town council selected for the honour a previously unnamed street located near the rue Robert Schuman and avenue Jean Monnet – both named after founding fathers of the EU.”
So, in fact he was alluding to the fact that Schuman and Monnet are old EU and Brexit is new Europe. Who cares. It’s the though that counts 🙂