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Bertie:

Dash it all, Jeeves, this Brexit is a bolshie business, what?

Jeeves:

Indeed, sir. Your assessment of the situation, while couched in the vernacular, is only too correct.

Bertie:

I've just heard from my pals Bingo Little and Oofy Prosser that the Drones Club might soon shut down. Can you believe that, Jeeves? The Drones shutting down? If that's not the end of civilisation as we know it, i don't know what is.

Jeeves:

Indeed, sir. As the poet Wordsworth once observed, "Men are we, and must grieve when even the shade Of that which once was great has passed away ."

Bertie:

Never mind the poet Wordsworth for the nonce, Jeeves. There is a time for the poet Wordsworth and a time not for the poet Wordsworth. The pressing business of the day is to find out why the Drones is closing. What do you think, Jeeves?
Jeeves:

My assumption, which i believe to be of verifiable certitude, is that the establishment in question will have to cease functioning as a gentleman's club for lack of infrastructural personnel.

Bertie:

Infra-wothcher, Jeeves? Jeeves:

Infrastructural personnel, sir. Such as the doorkeeper, hall porter, all the waiters, and the person who dispenses alcoholic and other beverages from behind the bar counter. All of them are East Europeans and as a consequence of Brexit they shall all leave and return to their native domains.

Bertie:

You don't say , Jeeves! Jeeves:

I fear i do, sir. And i regret that there is more news of a disturbing nature. Mrs Travers telephoned to say that her chef, Anatole, is also terminating his employment with her to go back to France, the land of his birth.

Bertie:

What? Good old Aunt Dahlia's Anatole God's gift to the gastric juices resigning? That's really one below the belt, Jeeves! Jeeves: I fear i too must hand in my notice, sir.

Bertie:

Hand in your notice? What on earth for, Jeeves?
Jeeves:

You see, sir, my name is not really Jeeves but Jevonski and after Brexit i'm going back to my home in Poland.

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