The problem and therefore the answer is a multi-faceted one but the ultimate problem is the people we elect to parliament. In all parties, with the very odd exceptions, all are now career politicians with absolutely no care or respect for the people they are supposed to be representing. Irrespective of the verbal spin that politicians vomit at every opportunity the reality is that politicians have forgotten, or in most cases never had the intent, to do the one thing that they were elected for, and that is to put forward and act on the views of their constituents even if they differ from their own personal views. The prime concern of these politicians is to ensure their own private agendas come to fruition (whatever they may be) and in many ways that makes our parliament now just as corrupt as the many 3rd world countries that we often criticise for corruption, the only difference is the subtle form that our sort of corruption takes.
For what it’s worth my take on Brexit is that we should have tried to get a reciprocal trade deal that takes back all the things we currently don’t have control over, does not tie us into the EU or them to us and if that is not possible then trading on WTO terms is not the end of the world. I don’t think the EU ever had any intention of ensuring such a trade deal would come about but our politicians were too stupid to see that. As someone who worked for many years in the export business WTO terms hold no fears for the manufacturers and exporters of this country irrespective of what they say in public. As long as they know the rules they are working to they will circumnavigate any initial problems. Yes there will be some initial disruption but we have enough clever people in this country to make most things work to our advantage but we need to be making the decisions not the EU who will simply try to bring us down at every opportunity.
I regret to say Brexit, as most people perceive it, isn’t going to happen. Most of the problems this country has are due to the short term, short sighted actions of politicians over the last 30 to 40 years each one compounding the problems caused by their predecessors. I feared for the young of this country as a full member of the EU but can’t now see that they have any better future outside it in the forms that are currently being proposed, and in fact they maybe even worse. The Brexit fiasco is just an extension of the way our society has developed and sadly our society is broken and there is no mechanism to mend it.
The only solace I take from all this is a very selfish personal one and that is that all my family have over recent years moved to the Antipodes leaving me and Mrs Omigidiant as the last members here in the UK. I know they have their problems down-under and it’s not all milk and honey but they are not on the vast scale we have here in the UK, and whilst the separation from family is difficult I know that my grandchildren are growing up in a far safer, less bigoted country that tries to protect it’s people and is giving them a far superior quality of life compared to here in the UK. Sad to have to say it, but true.
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