It would be darkly poetic if Brexit brought these same conditions to the UK as a whole if they had crop failures one year. (To make it clear for the pedant lit

It would be darkly poetic if Brexit brought these same conditions to the UK as a whole if they had crop failures one year. (To make it clear for the pedant literal crowd - I'm not saying it's a good thing, nor do I want it to happen. I'm simply commenting on how poetic it would be.)