Brexit the Musical: in Edinburgh, I understood how farce can be more persuasive than argument

If this satire were to tour the whole country, who knows what effect it might have?The Edinburgh festival fringe at its peak mounts more than 1,800 shows a day, but this year from my sample it was Brexit the Musical that really caught my imagination. From the first scene, where a Boris Johnson in Union Jack underpants realises with horror that Leave has won – “ We will bugger the economy,” he sings – to the last, where he and his sidekick “Govey” finally disco