Every time I hear politicians insinuate betrayal of the vote to leave or assert that the deal proposed is not what the people voted for my heart sinks and anger grows.
Lets get one thing straight here.
Is there a single person in this country (politician or not) who can definitively give the main reason as to why the people who voted leave cast their decision.
Can anyone say with ABSOLUTE 100% certainty what the majority main reason for voting LEAVE either was or is?
I would venture to suggest the answer to these questions is a resounding No.
The ballot paper asked the question to leave or remain. It did not ask the reason or reasons why. It didn't ask 'Do you want a hard brexit' or 'Do you want a soft brexit' or 'Do you want a medium brexit?.
Nobody knew what the priority concern of LEAVE voters was or is which makes negotiating public Brexit priorities on the publics behalf virtually impossible.
Both the Conservative and Labour parties seem divided on the issue and what sort of Brexit they want. The Lib Dems never wanted it at all and neither it seems do the SNP.
Theresa May seems to have gone down the compromise Brexit road and in so doing has upset both wings of her own party. Sat on the fence only to find somebody keeps rattling it in the hope she falls off.
The question is what sort of Brexit has a realistic chance of getting through a Commons vote? My concern at the moment is that the answer to that is NONE.
If the proposed response is that it should go to a peoples vote then it gets very difficult. Those in favour will say it is necessary to ask the people again either because of parliamentary rejection of the proposed deal or because nobody really knows what the priority public reason was for voting LEAVE in the first place.
Those against will say a peoples vote is a betrayal of the initial vote to LEAVE and defeats the whole point of the first referendum.
Valid arguments on both sides.
My own view is that the initial referendum was a farce.
The referendum should have been an educational tool.
In the end it turned into a game of remorseless speculation, bogus statistic trading, scaremongering and deceit on BOTH sides.
To be frank when I went to the ballot box that fateful day I had no idea what to do.
I felt utterly incapable of making a qualified, well informed, constructive, sensible decision on which way to vote.
I will be absolutely honest.
I did not and still do not really know what the EU really does.
I don't know what it's processes are or indeed why the processes are the way they are. I don't know specifically what it has control over and what it doesn't.
I don't know how it spends it's money and why it spends it how it does.
I have no idea how efficient, effective, bureaucratic, trustworthy or not the EU is.
How could I know? I was not taught these things at school.
I have my suspicions of course but suspicion is mere suspicion and not fact.
I like to think I keep up to date with current affairs but I simply do not have time to go researching the EU. I would be there forever doing it.
The whole sorry saga depresses me and with a hung parliament chaos will continue to ensue. It will be sods law there ends up being a general election and we end up with another hung parliament and more mayhem.
I fear the two main political parties at Westminster will remain as divided as the public seem to be
. I am totally lost
