On 18 May 2016, a month before the vote, Nigel Farage told the BBC ‘it’s legitimate to say that if people feel they have lost control completely – and we have lost control… then violence is the next step’. But in fact the next step in the overthrow of imaginary oppression was imaginary violence. It was another costume drama, in which May and her government pretended to be the Committee of Public Safety, guardians of the people’s will against traitors and fifth columnists.
