London (CNN) The pageantry may be over, but the UK's bumper Brexit week has only just begun.

Such a pivot would not ordinarily be required on the day of a Queen's Speech. Normally, the event heralds the start of a parliamentary term, setting forth a year's worth of important legislation that will shape the future of the country. But Johnson leads a minority government that's at least 40 shorts vote of winning anything in Parliament, and soon enough there will need to be an election to break the logjam.

The point of Johnson's Queen's Speech wasn't to kick off a program of governing, but to tease Brexit-weary voters and show them what life might be like after Brexit, if only the Prime Minister had a majority to get on with it.

The expensive jamboree otherwise known as the State Opening of Parliament might have looked important, but in reality it was little more than a campaign ad with a fancy crown and a lot of diamonds.

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