How does that follow even as a joke?
Their system has inherent flaws, however the crucial catalyst for what is now witnessed is the schism between mps now in parliament and actual views of the public. In my view there is nothing more disgusting than being voted to do one thing and doing the opposite. Usually it is done more subtly, but lately we have seen how odious politicians are when they are not checked by much and are power-hungry.
Whatever idiocy happens in Britain it won't change the fact that by now actual change is unlikely. In a sense, therefore, they already remained in the eu.
Maybe Germany will save things by doing what it does well, ie cause another inhuman war, so that maybe tptp will again be reluctantly forced to pretend they care about humanism; for a few more decades.
"Their system has inherent flaws"
I gave myself the time to follow many hours of debate... to get a feel for how it ticks. And filtering out the no-info, no-effect ballast...
IDK whether it is flawed... it is just less defined. Another approach. Much more relying on unwritten traditions than most continental systems (that are also relying on unwritten traditions !).
It enables indeed more chaos in certain situations, but also more manoevrability.... and more room and appearingly supported by more appetite... for more intrigues.
Whereas continental systems look more like the boards of big corporates, having more procedures and rules, also from the stock exchanges, to protect shareholders against executives going rogue... the UK system is more like a very big family owned business full of intrigues. More medieval nobility/Royal court so to say. Shakespeare.
"however the crucial catalyst for what is now witnessed is the schism between mps now in parliament and actual views of the public. In my view there is nothing more disgusting than being voted to do one thing and doing the opposite"
Yes... I prefer the non-talkative do-ers of the type:
"a man, a man... a word, a word"
Reality is that every governing layer will disconnect "peu a peu" with the ones that brought them into power. Whether that is the new young King, who started with listening well to his advicors, and changes slowly to someone doing everything on his own (his Royal gut feeling).... or a new generation of the political scene, grown from the latest wave from societal changes, and over time stiffening and disconnecting from their supporter base... enabling, encouraging a new wave of change.
Reality.
And not only at the governing layer.
The same again at company level: one of the biggest priorities any CEO has, is to fight the cancer of his people to entangle themselves more and more with "internal processes", and to direct their focus back to the "external processes". Disconnecting from your suppliers and particularly your customers is a creeping everyday reality of every company. And the more regulations, the more food for internal processes. Teachers, nurses, GPs, etc, here in NL are more busy filling out all kinds of forms, and having meetings all the time to discuss changes from politics (and disagree among each other, until finally some working stance/consensus is found again), that they are actually surpressed in staying focussed on their actual work and actual pupils, patients, customers.
And the point here for me is: the more the "customer" has wishes that are picked up by polticians using that for politics, the more the governmental wing starts to make changes into details of the implementation by overcooked detailing.... in other words: the more micro-management takes place... the more teachers, nurses, GPs have to cater internal processes, the worse the "customers", the people, are actually helped.
And "the people" are not helped at all when people in authority are going to give them expectations that are not possible !!!
The general phase our politicians are in for at least three decades in most countries is stiffling and disconnecting. Some politicians are more sincere in what they raise on expectations, and some politicians just enjoy the party of over-simplistic promises, like Farrage.
Cameron, with the authority of PM, more someone who freed the genius out of the bottle: his Bloomberg speech still nice to read in that angle: he raised expectations for the UK people, that he thought were both reflecting the UK character and good for the UK prosperity, that were completely unrealistic to achieve.... and the people believed him.. followed it up !
Here that speech written out:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/9820230/David-Camerons-EU-speech-in-full.html
In the past such a phase was always followed with a new generation of politicians, a new approach, mostly with a new period of a better connection. Some countries having bigger spikes up and down, some countries more moderate spikes.
EDIT:
Here a nice article to show that this "disconnect" is as human as it can be.
It is about a Vietnamese refugee who took over a small 6 employee company near (or in?) Seattle, supplying to Boeing, the big employer there and customer of thousands of small companies in the Seattle area.
The owner asked Mach to come back and run the company, but the owner got terminal cancer before that could happen. Instead, Mach said, the owner’s family took it over and nearly ran it into the ground.
So he bought it for almost nothing in 2008. There were six employees.
https://www.heraldnet.com/business/once-a-vietnam-refugee-he-now-runs-one-of-boeings-top-suppliers/
and then the quotes of him I like:
"They were late on deliveries. They were afraid to pick up the phone,” he said. “That first month, customers just yelled in my ear, ‘Where are my parts?!"
"A lot of people say to run a business, you have to be tricky. I don’t believe that,” Mach said.
Honesty and hard work have been critical to his success, he said"
"When you go big, you become out of touch,” he said. “When my employees leave, I’m often still here” working on the shop floor"
My old credo: small is beautiful. And applied here: Small companies can be out of touch... big companies are always out of touch.
