It’s reassuring to know the government has the ability to live-tweet the slow decline of Britain. We won’t go out with a whimper: we’ll crash out with a screaming phone alert. If you’re reading from abroad, at 7 this evening, an emergency alert was sent out to the phones of everyone in England and Wales.

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It’s reassuring to know the government has the ability to live-tweet the slow decline of Britain. We won’t go out with a whimper: we’ll crash out with a screaming phone alert. If…