No plan? No surprise

Politics

Jean-Claude Juncker has expressed surprise that Brexiting Britain doesn’t know what to do next.

‘What I don’t understand is that those who want to leave are totally unable to tell us what they want … I thought that if you wanted to leave you had a plan … they don’t have it.’ 1

There should be no surprise at all. The vote was the whole thing – one big destructive blast for the disaffected to enjoy. Now the fun’s over.

J.-C.J. has been reminded that in Britain, people like to vote against things rather than for things. For many people, that’s all politics is – giving some politician or party or policy a good kicking. After they’ve done that? Well, that’s just boring detail.

British politics must be the most negative of its kind anywhere in Europe. No wonder we have a crude all-or-nothing electoral system and a museum of a parliament that presupposes there are only two sides to every issue. Anything else would be too subtle for the British.

 

  1. ‘John Kerry: Brexit could be walked back’, Guardian 29 June 2016.