Tuesday 3 September 2019

You Couldn't Make it Up


You couldn't make it up.

An unelected Prime Minister (Johnson) hands power to an unelected adviser (Cummings) and uses an unelected head of state (the Queen) to subvert a sovereign Parliament, while in the sidelines stands an unelected party leader (Farage) of a party having no members (the Brexit Party has only paying subscribers) - and all because of unelected bureaucrats in Brussels and the desire to take back control into a sovereign Parliament.


Part of me thinks; "Oh what the hell, let's get this over and done with. Mainly those who voted for it are going to be the most affected anyhow and it's the only way to nip populism in the bud."

Populism does not have an enviable record of success, essentially because it's a movement of protest, not one of governance. It has a habit of self-imploding when power has been gained as the focus of the protest dissipates and other issues split the cohort. Populism suffers from offering simple solutions to complex problems, solutions that don't actually work as they are based on false promises and an oversimplification of the problem.

As my first paragraph demonstrates, it is manifestly obvious that, for the vast majority (but by no means everyone), Brexit has absolutely nothing to do with either sovereignty or unelected bureaucrats - it has everything to do do with a very understandable feeling of emasculation, a feeling that is not going to disappear by listening to demagogues offering false promises in order to enrich themselves. However, it will give a feeling of empowerment by having made a change, even if that change is self destructive and ends up with a lot of noses being cut off to spite a lot of faces.


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