John Oliver On The Brexit Result [VIDEO]

The Daily Beast recaps:

Last week, British satirist John Oliver spent a considerable portion of his late-night HBO program, Last Week Tonight, addressing the upcoming EU referendum, and urging his viewers that it would be “absolutely crazy” for Britain to leave the European Union, warning of “wide-ranging implications both for the U.K. and the world’s economy.”

Well, it turns out Oliver was right. Britain, fueled by xenophobic rhetoric and anti-immigration hysteria, voted to “leave” the EU, et voila: the world financial markets plummeted, as did the British pound.

So this week’s edition of Last Week began, of course, with the Brexit disaster.

“Let us begin straightaway with the United Kingdom, a place whose very name after this week’s events is beginning to sound a bit sarcastic,” said Oliver. “The fallout in Britain [post-Brexit] has been swift and significant.”