Mr Podsnap who featured in Charles Dickens Our Mutual Friend was surely the archetypal Brexiteer. Dealing in business with the rest of the world but wishing to have no knowledge or other dealing with it.
Dickens, famously hirsute, also confirmed that Brexit Podsnappery was clean shaven in his account of Mr Podsnaps daily routine:
the world got up at eight,
shaved close at a quarter-past, breakfasted at nine, went to the City
at ten, came home at half-past five, and dined at seven.
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