The Year 2030: ‘The End of the UK’

Liz Silversmith
Sep 4, 2018 · 7 min read

What happened to Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales after the EU referendum? A short piece of fiction predicting an alternative Brexit, written in April 2016.

Disclaimer: The story, characters, and incidents portrayed in this short piece are intended to be fictitious. Identification of real people is made, but only to root the story in our particular political reality. No identification with actual persons, places, buildings, and products should be inferred; this is merely a thought piece, using real names as props. It is not intended to be a criticism of any living

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Liz Silversmith

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Political analyst and commentator, based in Wales. Writes the occasional fictional dystopia.

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