Cronus wrote:
She's not wrong though. Throughout, MPs from all parties have put their own individual agendas ahead of reaching a reasonable agreement with the EU. Strings of ridiculous amendments and blocking mechanisms have done nothing but weaken our position.
Even now, when agreement is urgently needed, they cannot help but waffle on more about general elections and other irrelevant rubbish than solving the issue at hand.
Cross party would never have worked, as proven by Corbyn's childish reaction yesterday.
So tough titties to any poor offended MPs I'm afraid. Play your games and pray you have a job next time round, because the anger is palpable and frankly they deserve all the scorn being poured their way.
Corbyn’s behaviour yesterday was pathetic. But attempts at cross party would have probably been scuppered anyway by a mutiny in the Tory ranks. I’m frustrated that May has tailored a deal to try to meet the demands of group that don’t want a realistic deal, but the problem is systemic - she couldn’t really do anything very different.
With a few dishonourable exceptions, this isn’t about politicians being abnormally horrible or incompetent. It is more a systems failure.
The anger may be palpable, but not all indignation is righteous or well-directed. That doesn’t make it any less dangerous, but it makes it pretty much impossible to address in a sensible or constructive way.
A series of decisions, which each individually could be seen as rational from the decision-maker’s perspective, have together brought to the brink of national calamity. And it is easier to make sense of things if there is a villain, and we can blame somebody else. So people probably will. I think we all ought to take ownership of this mess - we won’t, but we should.
The heads of the CBI and TUC were on the news together urging the Govt to take a new direction. Maybe that’s the green shoots. We’ve shafted ourselves, but perhaps we’ll learn from it. Catastrophes have led to positive changes at times in the past... and further catastrophes at others, admittedly.
I’m glad I bought all that bog-roll, I tell you!
