THE whole of the planet’s health, wealth and happiness was solely dependent on a single country not being run by a berserk emperor, it has emerged.
A system which claimed to be stable and robust was, it has transpired, as vulnerable to a f**king nutcase who believes he has the divine right to cause a global depression as all the others.
Political analyst Denys Finch Hatton said: “History has a way of sweeping all your big ideas of how far we’ve progressed right into the shitter, doesn’t it?
“For example, as recently as ten years ago we’d have thought we were past land wars in Europe, plagues and cringing at the whims of a demented freak who demands constant 24-7 flattery or he’ll condemn the peasantry to eating tree bark. And yet here we are.
“It seems the whole interlinked edifice of global trade and peace between nations, which seemed unassailable, was in fact as fragile as a glass hummingbird. The liberal political systems we were so proud of? Replaced by good old all-powerful dictatorship.
“We might as well get in on it. William seems mental enough to declare war on the US for daring to harbour his brother. Dissolve parliament, execute Charlie and go with the f**king flow.”
Steve Malley of Middlesbrough said: “I quite fancy the total collapse of the global economy and having to queue all day for a bread ration. But can it be Greggs?”
