I can’t decide if it’s a tragedy (in the literary sense), a farce or both.
What’s clear though is that the great British public is as ill equipped to run the country as those it elects to do so — which, I imagine, is why they elect them in the first place.
I understand many of them wanted to give Cameron, Osborne, et al a kicking — who wouldn’t? But the way to do that was to vote them out at the next election, not to leave the EU — it’s like a child rebelling against its parents by refusing to play with any of its friends any more.
If we don’t go for a People’s Vote and remain after all then, much as it will have a negative impact upon what remains of my own life ¹ then I’m with Mencken on this one …
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”
The problem with that though is that the lesson of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is that a few years learning what that which they voted for really means won’t teach them the error of their ways but will simply entrench their belief that the E.U. is the source of all their woes, because it won’t trade more favourably with them as a third country than it does with EU member states, EEA/EFTA members or other third countries.
So, given that Democracy simply doesn’t work, it seems to me that there’s only one real solution …
Oh, the irony …
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¹ I had plans — and they didn’t involve the UK.
