"Imagine England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland walk into a pub. Suddenly England says it doesn't like the pub so we all have to leave." How true!
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High levels of chatter persist about Brexit, amongst it this explanation by a Scottish saleswoman in a Wellington shop.
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