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I Feel Let Down By the UK Government, and Not (Just) About Brexit
The Internet is crowded with people lamenting the state of world politics generally. Britain is far from immune to criticism right now, and rightly so.
I’ve shared my thoughts on Brexit previously, but so much time has passed since I wrote it (and yet, so little has changed) that it may or may not still be relevant. We’re still part of the EU right now, anyway.
There’s a sense in this country right now that things are messed-up. Nothing feels stable or certain, and few seem to have any confidence in the government doing what they’re supposed to. It’s hard to take them seriously too when the UK has succumbed to the examples of the USA, North Korea and others in selecting a buffoonish-caricature as its leader.
The recent (potentially illegal) proroguing of our parliament by Boris Johnson, effectively closing the doors for 6-weeks and sending all our nominated representatives’ home, suggests that everything is going swimmingly in Britain, and our politicians don’t really need to do anything to sort the country out.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
