| AS for exit plan or plan B the Government should of planned for that and given that the plan A was stay in the EU and do nothing, then for the government to not do any planning is somewhat poor. But the whole campaign from both sides skewed the reality in many ways and one of the unsetteling ones is that they have somewhat installed a percetion omngst people that if you voteed out your xenophobic and racist! Which is crazy and case of picking out the few cases in which so and projecting them upon a collective using another qualifier. Same thing happens by people seeing few religious terrorists and presuming all people of that religion upon those few worst cases. The other issue in politics is you end up with picking from two choices, and either pick a hammer or a saw to handle all problems current and future. The latter being a real issue with the current democratic input from the people as you may pick one party to rule as you need a hammer for the problems of the time mostly and a saw problem arises. The upshot is that the spread of people who vote one way and then years later in hindsight would of voted differently is always going to happen. Though does appear to be happening more and whilst in the past you had a two party system with people loyal to a party, the growth in floating voters has grown. Which is a good thing as you can not treat all problems with a hammer or a saw and sometimes you just need some duct-tape. But with a democratic system designed for people who can just write and X for a time of communication speed akin to snails in our current times. Times of more awareness and intelligence and literacy, along with access to knowledge and speed of communications. The whole party/democratic system needs reform. But in party that is why we end up with a more mixed second level, and in the case of the UK we have the house of Lords. Though not democratically elected they do add balance and with that common sense when a hammer is being used when a saw is needed. But far from ideal and yet it has allowed us to move forward, albeit slowly. But then the aspect that people adjust to change at carious rates, may be a good thing, maybe not and allows a changephobia mentality to be fed. Still one can look at the financial markets, they all bet on remain and the outfall and panic has been most clear. After all nothing actually changed overnight and won't for at least two years. People just like to presume the worst when it comes to change or stay as is in general more than not I feel, yet at the same time. Just as equally less inclined to plan for such cases with a penchant to prefer panic. Either way much to be learned from this whole referendum and hopefully lessons globally learned. But a case of the Western world distancing itself from the people more and more and being out of touch with the rest of the World, getting more in touch with the people. Both have a way to go but certainly an something that seems apparent these days. All reminds me of the saying "no such thing as a stupid question, only a stupid answer" and when the people ask the questions and see how stupid the response is, they remember. |
In terms of lesson learned, I found a new one today... Previously I saw that a lot of the problems with the public debate stemmed from the divisive media coverage, and I still believe they played a crucial role in promoting negativity on both sides, but now I see there's a crucial capacity that is needed to develop a deeper understanding of the issues, and that is the capacity for doubt.
Without the willingness to open ourselves up to conflicting views, we rob ourselves of the power to move past demagoguery, to move past personality politics, and see issues for what they really are. Whilst I recognise that it's possible to be too flexible and stand for nothing, I'd suggest that scoring points in debates by making others look foolish may only stop when we recognise we benefit from conflicting opinions (voiced respectfully).