And at its most elite levels Brexit takes refuge in its own English Dreamtime. Partly, this is a medieval time of ‘vassalage’ and marauding knights, a time, in the words of Britannia Unchained’s fantasy of liberated ultra-capitalism, ‘when nearly all society’s strictures are relaxed’. But it has, even beyond that, its own world of gods and demigods. What we have to understand is that these gods are the super-rich.
