Failure of a Political Class

It is hard to think of a time in the last two centuries when the British people have been so completely let down by the entire political class.  It does not matter whether you voted for or against Brexit. Having voted and decided the issue everybody on all sides expected the decision to be put into effect with the minimum fuss and in timely fashion. Just look what has happened. For the first nine months, nothing. Then uncertainty, wishful thinking, ideology, pipe dreams, balderdash, everything you can think of until here we are, less than two hundred days away and still we don’t know. Away from what exactly? We don’t know that either.

In truth what was promised to voters was never there. What is there turns out to be so complicated and multi dimensional, that nobody, no group, no party can agree on any single detail. So they have fallen back on fighting each other. It is not party against party. Labour has divisions for sure, but to some extent they have the luxury of opposition so it is permissible. But the Tory party leads the government and it is not just split. It is busting apart in all directions. Meanwhile Boris, who fancies himself as Tory PM in waiting, the vulgar one of several, is lost in a swamp of his own making to do with suicide vests.

The latest is that the hard core Tory Brexiteers, led by the peculiar old Etonian who does not do nappies, having trailed the publication of its Brexit plan, has pulled it, because it cannot agree the contents.

Wow!