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The June 23 vote took many investors and chief executives by
surprise, triggering the deepest political and financial turmoil
in Britain since World War Two and the biggest ever one-day fall
in sterling against the dollar.
The Cassette Boy artists, who parody politicians by editing
their words to form sentences they never said, dissect the
referendum campaign, making then Prime Minister David Cameron
appear to say he turned the United Kingdom upside down.
"Now this is a story all about how the UK got flipped, got
turned upside down," Cameron, who announced his resignation the
day after the referendum, is shown as saying to a hip-hop music
theme from Will Smith's Fresh Prince of Bel Air.
"I started this farce. I was the one who did something dumb: I
promised an EU in/out referendum," Cameron, who called the
referendum in 2013 but who campaigned to stay in the EU, is made
to say.
Boris Johnson, who campaigned for Brexit but dropped out of
the race to replace Cameron after his running mate Michael Gove
withdrew his support, is edited to say: "I have the most gross
charisma and I want to be the next prime minister."
"So I say: Let's leave the EU not because I believe it's the
right thing to do but because I see an amazing future for me,"
Johnson is edited to say.
After the result is announced, Cameron tells Boris: "I'm running
away. The rest of my life is one big holiday."
May, Cameron's interior minister who did not take an active role
in the campaign, says: "Yes you can forget the economy. This
policy wrecks it."
"Brexit means Brexit. And we're making a mess of it."
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