Still a dog’s brexit!

A year ago I struggled to understand the story behind the United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union, and came to the conclusion that there was no story.

I noted that there were, at the time, myriads of sub-plots, and transient characters spread across an incomplete structure of chapters. There were at least two different books for these chapters to randomly locate themselves: one a comedy, the other a tragedy. But it was not immediately obvious which was which. Chapters from these two books swop from one to the other without warning. Like the ever-moving staircases in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, the chapters started and ended in different places each time they were read.

Protagonists spouted their own versions of the sub-plots, vehemently insulting the protagonists of opposing sub-plots.

The worst insults sprang from media columnists, whose only function in life appeared to be to cynically and sneeringly snipe at any opinion that they didn’t support at the time. They arrogantly accused others of arrogance.

In the ensuing year, nothing much has happened, other than further descent into hapless oblivion with no prospect of any movement, let alone solution.

As I observed last year, protagonists have wilfully swapped sides and opinions. Vicky Pollard is more sure about herself than many yeah-but-no-but-yeah-but-no Politicians. Are you Remain, Leave, Hard or Soft Brexit? “I’m not sure, what time of day is it.”

So what, from my suggestions, did we do to put it right?

1. Abandon adversarial parliaments, whether EU or UK? Nope.
2. Encourage elected members to represent their local electorate rather than the wider political parties? Not really.
3. Reintroduce a truly independent Civil Service, that exists to support the greater good rather than Robin Day’s “here today, gone tomorrow” politicians? Institutionally no! Lord Adonis actually suggested the Civil Service should ignore the will of Government to support the will of (52%) of the people – as perceived by Lord Adonis.
4. Allow independent experts to offer their true independent advice, unfettered by political funding or influence? Yes, but politicians don’t listen!
5. Have another crack at making the European Union work for all its peoples; not just the politicians, not just the legislative, not just businesses, certainly not ex prime-ministers of European tax havens and their lackies not just the rich, not just the poor, but every European? No, that would be a climb down from lofty political heights and would thwart the will of 52% of people, a significant proportion of whom were duped by illegal misinformation.