(Answer to question from Sputnik)

(The editors wanted a definition, so I offered this “Panjandrumocracy: A group of self-appointed people claiming to have great authority. Formerly a characteristic of the Warsaw Pact and Comintern but now principally found in EU and NATO and related Western blastomas on the res publica.”)

All over the Western world, at different rates and varying with national peculiarities, we see a revolt against the Panjandrums. The British revolt took the form of the Brexit vote but, two years later, Brexit seems no closer. One Prime Minister has resigned and it looks as if May will be the second. I would guess that a compromise candidate will be chosen but that will only delay events.

If, in a general election, Corbyn should become PM, that will be another blow to the Panjandrumocracy. Where that will leave NATO, Syrian operations overt and covert, Yemen ditto, Russophobia and Skripalmania one can only guess. But certainly no stronger.

Whatever happens in the UK, the revolt will continue: now here, now there. The Panjandrums are giving ground everywhere. The process continues; but it will be painful: enormous sums of money are at stake.