Julie Burchill Julie Burchill

How will Remainers cope with a right-wing Europe?

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I love to make up new words and see them gradually used more by others – for a writer, there’s no greater thrill. My brilliant ‘cry-bully’ – coined in this magazine back in 2015 – has probably been the most successful, to the point where it’s sometimes amusingly used by cry-bullies themselves, Owen ‘Talcum X’ Jones being the wettest and most bellicose example. Then there’s ‘Frankenfeminism’ (centering the fetishes of cross-dressing men over the rights of women while identifying as a feminist) and ‘Transmaids’ (the people who do this.)

But the one I’m most pleased with, though the least used, is Le Grand Bouder, or – to translate it into a lovelier and more popular language – The Big Sulk.

In extreme cases, Brits suffering from BDS even left these sceptered isles to seek ‘refuge’ in France and Germany from the alleged crypto-fascism of Brexit Britain

Referring to the inability of some Remainers to get over the fact that they lost the referendum fair and square, this condition often leads to Brexit Derangement Syndrome.

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