JFDI (a rant about democracy)

My wife is not a political animal. But for me she would have remained blissfully uninvolved (if not uninterested). Kathryn is cleverer than me - she got to be acquisitions director for a big international publisher which is a tad bigger achievement-wise than my political career - indeed anyone's political career is less valuable than helping create a multi-million pound business with over 250 employees.

Anyway, the Brexit thing. Kathryn voted to leave because the EU is, for all its talk about trade, essentially anti-trade. And she is cross. Not mildly irritated but really cross, almost to the point of incoherence. As she put it "so angry I don't want to talk about it".

Kathryn is not alone. There are thousands of decent people who, in good faith, voted in a referendum and now see the machinations of people - MPs, media, celebrities, rich businessmen - who lost that vote moving us towards not leaving the European Union. This isn't about who is right and wrong - there isn't an objective, evidenced answer to that question especially in a debate so utterly riddled with lies, scare stories and misinformation. No it's about the very essence of why we vote.

If you say to people "this is your decision, the government will implement what you decide" and then spend three years trying not to do what people decided then is it really a surprise that people are angry? There is a lot of nonsense - endless sociological dribble - talked about why people *really* voted to leave but one thing we have discovered...

...most of our members of parliament are duplicitous, self-serving, dissembling, two-faced, preening popinjays with no real interest, despite the smarmy speeches and Twitter feeds written by Uriah Heep, in the people who gave them that well-paid career opportunity down in London.

Why hell should ordinary people vote if, as they now know, most of the MPs they vote for aren't remotely interested in why they cast that vote? Those MPs are interested in that front bench position, in the foreign trips, in the media appearances and, above all, in the goings on within that cosy little club we elected them to.

What to people want? I'll tell you. They want JFDI - JUST. FUCKING. DO. IT.

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