...controversy over Donald Tusk's correct statement that the Brexit mob should have had a clear plan in place before bringing on the referendum, that those Brexiteers didn't even have a sketch of a plan.
Somehow, that truth stings the crap out of the great British media (which supported that decision to have referendum with all the venom it could legally muster), because it underlines the folly into which the nation has been induced, persuaded by them to dive. So far, all it has achieved is the division of families, ruined friendships and Nissan taking the opportunity to abandon a promised new post-Brexit production line in England and invest, instead, in its home base of Japan. In the meantime, Scotland looks on helplessly as its own future is put onto hold. Watch that space.
THE FOLLOWING POST IS NOT ABOUT POLITICS, IT IS ABOUT RESPECTING DEMOCRACY!
Rob I don't want the UK (as a whole and as an undivided nation) to slip off a cliff into economic oblivion either, but if I look at all the bitching and moaning across the English speaking Western regions of the globe as it appears today, then it brings to my mind a few simple questions:
1 - Do you and should we all believe in democracy?
2 - Should we respect the democratic will of the people?
3 - Was the outcome of the Trump election, Brexit referendum and the Scottish independence referendum, derived through a democratic process?
If you answered Yes to the first two, then you must agree to the third, because if you/we do not respect democracy and the democratic will of the people, as far too many people seem not to want to do these days, then that is the end of democracy and we are then heading towards dictatorship and all being controlled under totalitarian regimes.
It really is as simple as that.
Good outcomes and bad outcomes, if they are reached as part of a democratic process, then we have to swallow the result whether we like it or not, as the only alternative is rioting and blood on the streets and dictatorships. So yes the UK might well have chosen to flush itself down the toilet, but at least it chose to do it in a democratic way and yes Scotland might get dragged down with it, but at least it chose to stick to the rest of the UK in a democratic way and yes Trump might be the single most annoying man on the planet to a vast swathe of people across America and possibly the world, but at least he was put there as the result of a democratic process.
To disagree with any of the above, is simply sour grapes.
Oh and I might also add, that democratic countries that dare not ask for the democratic will of the people, because they know they wouldn't like the answer and so would have to think up a way to ignore it, is not really a democracy either!
Dave
