This Facebook post brilliantly explains the aftermath of Brexit for you

Since Brexit happened, politics has become a little, well, confusing.

The country voted to Leave, David Cameron resigned and fired the starting gun on a party leadership race, while Labour is in the midst of a bloody and prolonged coup.

Michael Gove somehow backstabbed Boris Johnson spectacularly, while Jeremy Corbyn remains leader of a Labour party which voted in favour of a motion of no confidence against him.

Really, we need someone to sit everyone down and explain in crystal clear terms what exactly is going on.

This is what Benjamin Blaine, a filmmaker, attempted to do on 28 June in a Facebook post, which has been shared by over 45,000 people.

We think he did a pretty good job.

The full status reads:

So, let me get this straight... the leader of the opposition campaigned to stay but secretly wanted to leave, so his party held a non-binding vote to shame him into resigning so someone else could lead the campaign to ignore the result of the non-binding referendum which many people now think was just angry people trying to shame politicians into seeing they'd all done nothing to help them.

Meanwhile, the man who campaigned to leave because he hoped losing would help him win the leadership of his party, accidentally won and ruined any chance of leading because the man who thought he couldn't lose, did - but resigned before actually doing the thing the vote had been about. The man who'd always thought he'd lead next, campaigned so badly that everyone thought he was lying when he said the economy would crash - and he was, but it did, but he's not resigned, but, like the man who lost and the man who won, also now can't become leader. Which means the woman who quietly campaigned to stay but always said she wanted to leave is likely to become leader instead.

Which means she holds the same view as the leader of the opposition but for opposite reasons, but her party's view of this view is the opposite of the opposition's. And the opposition aren't yet opposing anything because the leader isn't listening to his party, who aren't listening to the country, who aren't listening to experts or possibly paying that much attention at all. However, none of their opponents actually want to be the one to do the thing that the vote was about, so there's not yet anything actually on the table to oppose anyway. And if no one ever does do the thing that most people asked them to do, it will be undemocratic and if any one ever does do it, it will be awful.

Clear?

Absolutely crystal.

Perhaps the most amazing thing is that even in light of the past few days which have torn the Tory leadership race apart, it's still relevant three days on.

Benjamin told indy100 he wrote the status because he:

was bored on the tube and had some of the ironies of our situation on my mind.

So what's his reaction been to the aftermath?

One of despair at the total lack of leadership or moral courage shown by parliament as a whole.

We face the biggest constitutional change in a generation and not only had no one prepared for it, no one seems to have realised they need to look for a gear beyond party politics.

It's nice that people enjoyed what I wrote, but I'd rather they'd all join the Electoral Reform Society and campaign for a democratic system that can actually cope with the demands of the 21st Century. If the past week has shown one thing it's that our current system is like entering a grand prix in a model T ford.

Since Benjamin posted the mind-boggling status, it has taken off online, and is being used by others as a copy and paste comment on Brexit articles on other news sites.

Because right now, everyone needs a laugh about the utter state of things.

Benjamin is a British filmmaker whose latest outing with his brother Chris was Nina Forever, a horror comedy.

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