Brexit

Brexit has proven to be the complete failure of the political system. After 23rd June, 2016, nobody accepted the outcome of the Brexit referendum. More than three years later, it is as if it was still to be held. The leaders of the various political parties have done nothing to impress on their followers to accept the outcome, however contrary to their own political beliefs that would be. Why? Because said leaders are all leading divided parties and are unable to hold down party discipline to enforce acceptance of said result. Theresa May did not; Jeremy Corbyn did not; and Boris Johnson is the right man at the wrong time. All he will now precipitate is an early election, which will resolve nothing. Just to bring the headbangers of Nigel Farage's Brexit party into parliament. This entire process will also bring about another vote on Scottish independence, something we need like a hole in the head.

Theresa May was a poor prime minister, but she was made to carry the can after David Cameron chickened out (left office and his seat as an MP) after the British people voted to leave the UK. David Cameron gambled and won on Scottish independence; but his gamble on Brexit backfired. Theresa May gambled on an election and lost, so the future was bright and the future was Orange - the orange of the DUP and its vile Northern Irish sectarianism. It was because of that that we had to endure inane debates about the backstop - with everybody forgetting what that was all about.

At the time of the Brexit referendum, nobody had the foggiest idea what Brexit would entail. We still don't know. I, as an EU national in the UK, still don't know what will happen on November 1st, after Brexit comes about. And that, dear readers, is a crashing failure of government.

Neither party, Conservatives nor Labour, come out of this smelling of roses. The Labour Party have failed to perform their statutory role as Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition, to hold the Executive to account, and to adequately and critically scrutinise the Government's intentions. Jeremy Corbyn is a leader who says one thing, but actually thinks and does the opposite. I know people who hold strong political views, and as such, you profess them loudly and extensively, and argue your views to the death. JC does not do that.