People who think the UK is the centre of the universe and the rest of the world are hanging on our every move.
Please note - the rest of the world does not give a shit. I have lived abroad in several countries and travelled to many more and trust me - the domestic goings on the UK (and even the EU), who says what in parliament and so on, don't even make the back page of the papers in 'the rest of the world'. There are 195 countries on planet earth and for most of them, what we do on our little North Atlantic Islands is of no interest to the vast majority.
They have their own people, governments, politics, problems, celebrities, TV, scandals, domestic japes, economics and so on. They really, really don't give a shit about ours.
I once watched a bit of the goings on in the Scottish Parliament and one SNP member stood up and said 'the eyes of the world are upon us' and I laughed out loud. She really thinks someone in Brazil or Japan or Nigeria and anywhere else gives a shit about what goes on in the Scottish Parliament ffs?
'The UK is a laughing stock' to the rest of the world - is a phrase I read regularly on various forums. Do people really think billions and billions of people spread across the globe are sitting there watching our every move and 'laughing'? THEY COULDN'T CARE LESS what we do, they have their own lives, families, countries and problems to deal with.
They might well be laughing at those deluded idiots who think that what we do here is of any interest whatsoever to the vast majority of the population of planet earth.