Wednesday, January 16, 2019

British madness

What's at the heart of the British nuttiness at the moment?   Why is Jeremy Corbin so wishy washy on an alternative path forward?   Why aren't there more Remainers in Parliament openly pushing for another referendum?  I missed that Politico had an article late last year that listed 8 different "Brexit tribes" within the Tories!  How is that not a embarrassing shambles for the party as a whole?     Why did the pound go up after May's loss - surely the only explanation is finance and business hoping that it means that the whole idea might be abandoned?  And what about libertarians and Brexit?   I get the impression that ones like Helen Dale like the idea in principle, but aren't open enough to admit they didn't understand the complexity and that in retrospect it was a dud idea from the start.   (She apparently wrote about it in the Australian recently?   But she spends most of her time on Twitter just complaining that she's sick of the whole thing.)  I see that Nick Cohen took a stick to libertarian influence on the poll last November.

Despite debate over how the question would be structured, polling indicates that if you do it with multiple choices on a first past the post basis, as their politicians are elected,  the Remainers would win.

But then again, perhaps a good case can be made for it being the first past the post elections behind the whole problem with UK politics generally.   I certainly get the feeling Australians feel better represented for having preferential voting.

2 comments:

not trampis said...

I think the major reason is they are all nuts. the tories believe no matter how divided they are people wil not vote for the Labour party headed by Corbyn. Perhaps they are right. I certainly would not.

However was it certain it most tories or others who voted against the Brexit bill do not have a clue of how bad a Brexit would be without an agreement of any sort.

Anonymous said...

The first site is excellent on many levels and gives great insight into all sides of the Brexit debate in both parts of Ireland. The other is the Remain paper. As Slugger says, it's still Party before Country -

https://sluggerotoole.com/

https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/home