Sunday 18 August 2019

Are we Brexit Ready? 

The sun shines again today and I’m not banging on about my missing tooth. It’s politics today!  How on earth have we arrived at this Brexit point? I use the word  Brexit as a swear word here. Since the idea of opting out of Europe took hold so many dismal predictions have worried not just me but quite a lot of us.
How we ended up with the present gang of politicians is not so much a mystery as a disaster.  Boris Johnson is riding a personal quest for glory. So people opposing him are dismissed as those  trying to go against the will of the people. It must be nice to be so sure of your own greatness that there is no need to listen to anyone else.
So this is where the leader of the opposition is there to oppose. But no one likes Mr Corbyn much either or his plan. The one good thing you can say about this disingenuous plot to replace the PM by those who don’t share his ideology is that no one likes either the idea or those who propose it. . So our two main parties are led by people the voters have doubts about.
This opens the door to the really dangerous ones, the arch brexiteers glorying in their success at the ballot box . The thought of any of the newly formed national party especially Nigel Farage  achieving power is really worrying.
The determination to achieve a clean break at the end of October no matter what the consequence is really scary to I think,  the bulk of the public.  We don’t like change, especially as we get older. So many of us are not just worried, we are frightened.  Already the chemist here in Cornwall can’t get the drugs people are used to...  I am now working my way through several substitutions. Food and drink are not all that important to us old ones...but feeling safe is...and as the end of October draws closer I find myself worrying.   Surely it really is time for a general election  before we allow the present bunch of politicians to take us into brexiteer darkness.

3 comments:

Ray Barnes said...

You are preaching to the converted Jean.

At present we have no say at all in what is happening to our poor country, but my fear is that by the time we have a say (vote), it will be too late and the damage will have been done.

I've never felt so pessimistic nor so helpless.

Revjeanrolt said...

You describe aptly the state of British politics and the lack of any genuine leadership of the country at the moment. All politics seems a lottery and the losers are the voters. I can’t imagine why politicians believe it is their duty to be gracious and self interested because they profess to be serving their constituents. I don’t see much public service more a mixture of people who despise each other’s views and a determination to sink the country into a morass of poverty and division.
The spectre of the Brexit party waiting in the wings is awful and they are proving that their right wing populist politics has an attraction for some that tends to every right wing nationalist who feel content to join in.
On the other side we have left wing extremists in the form of Momentum also striving to change the face of plotics no matter what the cost, ably led by Mr Corbyn. Once a Marxist always a Marxist.
I long for the Queen to step in and put an end to this nonsense but of course her power to intervene is constrained by law so she like the rest of us sits unable to do anything as we go to hell in a handcart.
True democracy would give the people a choice but our stilted democracy with proportional representation is unfair and unequal. Time for a General Election under PR sooner rather than later.. then we might get a government for the people, from the people and some common sense as well as compromise. Not rhetoric will run the country.

Revjeanrolt said...

The last comment was from UK viewer after I accidentally lost the original post. Sorry Earnie!