Still reeling from the shock of the Brexit vote, I remain perplexed at the lack of any organised mechanism for the many leave voters who now claim to regret their 'choice' to say "err excuse me I didn't know what I was doing can you please not destroy the United Kingdom and wreck our economy on my account pleeeeeeeeeeeeease". Equal levels of perplexment are being induced by leavers posting about being proud to be British on fb - err wot? My dears your vote will help break up the United Kingdom of Britain and Northern Ireland - Scotland will now demand a second independence referendum so they have a chance of being part of the EU and there are calls for Northern Ireland to escape splendid isolation by having the chance to reunite with the Republic. Oh children what have you done? You silly banana-bottoms. If you make a horrible mistake for goodness sake at least try to put things right. Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty has yet to be invoked (as none of the Brexit lot have any idea what they would be trying to negotiate and the departing PM understandably didn't have a clue either). A few months grace then. We had an advisory referendum - it gave a silly result which many, many regret. If any of the 17 million have had a change of heart or clocked that this is not just a protest exercise - this actually affects our lives - you might want to think about writing to your MP to that effect urging them to deduct your vote from the final tally instead of saying 'oops, gosh stepping back from politics now having helped caused a right old mess'.
If Mumifesto was PM or had any say, she would NOT invoke Article 50 unless she absolutely had to. Her other half advises there would be rioting if the referendum result was not respected. Mumifesto accepts this argument (the extreme outters would love rioting, they'd all be out with their Nazi salutes and their calls for anyone who doesn't eat pork/drink beer/speak English to be machine gunned) but it seems a bit of a missed opportunity not to try and get regretful brexit voters to at least register their regret before we take the fateful step of invoking Article 50.
And as to the things regretful Brexiters were really sore about that aren't just about xenophobic hostility Mumifesto suggests the Remainers in their political parties join forces to tackle since there are blinking obvious solutions to them. Fed up of not having a say - give people votes that count (PR). Fed up of living in a hopeless town that's lost its manufacturing industry and jobs - let's have an interventionist industrial policy, let the ruddy politicians look at these communities one by one and develop a plan for them. Fed up of the shortage of affordable housing let councils and businesses like ours access bank loans to build them.
If we are looking for lessons to learn this whole atrocious debacle surely highlights the need for a written constitution with rules about referendums. If you are having a vote on things which have potentially staggering consequences for different nations of the UK (ok ok soon there may be only two left - Wales and England) you might want to think about that at the OUTSET rather than after the event. You might want to think about how, in a referendum campaign, you prevent voters from being fed lies and half-truths and supposition from either side.
As for myself I shall take me hound out for a walk and think of extremely practical things to do to promote love, unity, community and wotnot. Got a home educators fun Summer Olympics to organise and that's all about friendship, peace and unity so that's a good place to start. Somehow though it doesn't feel quite enough....
If Mumifesto was PM or had any say, she would NOT invoke Article 50 unless she absolutely had to. Her other half advises there would be rioting if the referendum result was not respected. Mumifesto accepts this argument (the extreme outters would love rioting, they'd all be out with their Nazi salutes and their calls for anyone who doesn't eat pork/drink beer/speak English to be machine gunned) but it seems a bit of a missed opportunity not to try and get regretful brexit voters to at least register their regret before we take the fateful step of invoking Article 50.
And as to the things regretful Brexiters were really sore about that aren't just about xenophobic hostility Mumifesto suggests the Remainers in their political parties join forces to tackle since there are blinking obvious solutions to them. Fed up of not having a say - give people votes that count (PR). Fed up of living in a hopeless town that's lost its manufacturing industry and jobs - let's have an interventionist industrial policy, let the ruddy politicians look at these communities one by one and develop a plan for them. Fed up of the shortage of affordable housing let councils and businesses like ours access bank loans to build them.
If we are looking for lessons to learn this whole atrocious debacle surely highlights the need for a written constitution with rules about referendums. If you are having a vote on things which have potentially staggering consequences for different nations of the UK (ok ok soon there may be only two left - Wales and England) you might want to think about that at the OUTSET rather than after the event. You might want to think about how, in a referendum campaign, you prevent voters from being fed lies and half-truths and supposition from either side.
As for myself I shall take me hound out for a walk and think of extremely practical things to do to promote love, unity, community and wotnot. Got a home educators fun Summer Olympics to organise and that's all about friendship, peace and unity so that's a good place to start. Somehow though it doesn't feel quite enough....
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