Brexit - Political Complexity

I am really fed up with the whole Brexit debacle.

I think we were misled & even lied to, by Conservative politicians who had their own agenda, which wasn't, in any way, shape, or form, in the best interests of the country. The referendum was purely & simply a ploy to try to sort out the polarised factions in the Conservative party. It failed miserably.

That said, things have got immesurably worse, with the whole Houses of Commons & Lords divided. As is the country at large. So I have to now come to the conclusion that this is a massive lesson, both to the electorate & their representatives, that the existing party political democratic system is completely broken.

Few people can agree on any aspect of the situation we are now in. Hardly anyone really understands the complexities of the process & possible outcomes. Everything following the vote has been pure speculation. So called experts on both sides of the argument are trotted out daily to give their view on what has happened, what might happen & what should happen.

Media airtime & print journalists have used up all the news oxygen expounding their personal views. Boring & repetetive, entrenched, politicians repeat the same partisan mantras over & over. Possibly one of the worst ones is the prime minister. Resiliant & dogged she may be but she is also completely without charisma & real understanding. No policies or issues other than Brexit are being dealt with effectively. Brexit is costing the UK £500 million a week - or £26 billion per annum, according to research by the Centre for European Reform. Who knows how much it will cost after whatever the conclusion of the negotiation turns out to be.

We have to get to grips with the fact that life in the 21st Century is unbelievably complex & difficult to negotiate. It isn't only the UK which is not functioning well. In a way politicians have a thankless & difficult task. One wonders why they actually want to do it. At the moment we are floundering dangerously in a rough sea of our own devising. We really need a new system of government, not this short term way of looking at complex issues, which is based on the present encumbents retaining power.

I do think that a lot of what has happened was predictable. It was never going to be easy to come out of the EU. It was always going to be a thorny road to negotiate. But our government was full of hubris. Well, we are the ones who have paid & will pay the price & I think whatever happens now, it has been a price we could not afford to pay.