In Fools' Paradise Nicholas Hagger presented the UK's attempt to
leave the EU under Prime Minister Theresa May in terms of the
voyage of Sebastian Brant's 1494 Ship of Fools heading with a
mutinous crew for the illusory, nonexistent paradise of Narragonia.
His mock-heroic satirical poem on the political chaos surrounding
the most important UK decision since the Second World War is in
rhymed heroic couplets, in the tradition of Dryden and Pope. In
this sequel, Fools' Gold, Hagger focuses on the beginning of Boris
Johnson's premiership, the promises that won him the 2019 General
Election with an 80-seat majority, and his removal of the UK from
the EU, only to be engulfed by the deadly Covid pandemic which has
devastated the UK economy. Hagger describes the catastrophic
national events in heroic blank verse, which befits the darkening
mood. The UK public has been promised a new Golden Age, an age of
plenty, and it remains to be seen whether there will be prosperity
for all - gold - now that the UK is facing colossal debt outside
the EU, or whether the promises will turn out to be worthless iron
pyrites: fools' gold.
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