Thar Brexit deal is cr*p
Mar. 23rd, 2019 08:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
qatsiWe set off early for the Put it to the People march. For once the trains were not sabotaged by Failing Grayling, and we found uitlander successfully at the meeting point. Unfortunately my path failed to coincide with a couple of other friends I was hoping to meet, but I understand they both were on sections of the march.
We assembled onto Park Lane at 11:30. Predictably, there was a lot of standing around; we could do little but fight with the mobile networks and admire the placards. Like last time, it was gone 2pm before we passed the official starting point of the march. The pace seemed about the same as last time, though the march did not thin out the way previous events have. We parted company withuitlander, who wanted to stick with the group for the return coach. Despite a strong contender from some bagpipes playing Beethoven's Ode to Joy, the surreal high point was probably passing alongside a Yorkshire party belting out "Thar Brexit deal is crap" to the tune of Ilkley Moor. In fact, it did take us longer to reach the end; it was about quarter to five when we reached Trafalgar Square and dispersed. Sadly we saw no speeches. Such is the price for being part of the 1,000,000.
For me, the mood felt darker than previous marches. Some of that may have been down to anxiety, either generally, or specifically about not being able to fulfil meeting arrangements with other friends, but for the most part I think the reason is the more obvious reality. The petition, to revoke Article 50, seems to exemplify the radicalisation of Remainers: despite the stated objective of the march, which reflects the logic that the 2016 referendum decision is best amended by a further referendum on the actual deal, the sense that these people want Article 50 revoked was strong. Whilst she made some bad errors of judgement on Wednesday evening, Theresa May was right to say we have all had enough. It's just that she hasn't, so far, allowed MPs to say what they are in favour of, though they have had ample opportunities to vote things down.
Where do we go from here? It's difficult to guess, though I think we can guess that MV3 will fail, if it is put at all. It feels as though the indicative votes should either lock the current deal into a referendum, or dispatch Article 50 altogether, with the men in white coats, or John Bercow, taking May away for her own good and everyone else's; but Parliament has, so far, excluded the overtly sensible options. Longer term, we need some inquiry to hold those who peddled lies and fantasies to account, and we also need something like a Royal Commission to consider parameters and rules for whether - if ever - we are to have referendums in this country in future.
uitlander successfully at the meeting point. Unfortunately my path failed to coincide with a couple of other friends I was hoping to meet, but I understand they both were on sections of the march.We assembled onto Park Lane at 11:30. Predictably, there was a lot of standing around; we could do little but fight with the mobile networks and admire the placards. Like last time, it was gone 2pm before we passed the official starting point of the march. The pace seemed about the same as last time, though the march did not thin out the way previous events have. We parted company with
uitlander, who wanted to stick with the group for the return coach. Despite a strong contender from some bagpipes playing Beethoven's Ode to Joy, the surreal high point was probably passing alongside a Yorkshire party belting out "Thar Brexit deal is crap" to the tune of Ilkley Moor. In fact, it did take us longer to reach the end; it was about quarter to five when we reached Trafalgar Square and dispersed. Sadly we saw no speeches. Such is the price for being part of the 1,000,000.For me, the mood felt darker than previous marches. Some of that may have been down to anxiety, either generally, or specifically about not being able to fulfil meeting arrangements with other friends, but for the most part I think the reason is the more obvious reality. The petition, to revoke Article 50, seems to exemplify the radicalisation of Remainers: despite the stated objective of the march, which reflects the logic that the 2016 referendum decision is best amended by a further referendum on the actual deal, the sense that these people want Article 50 revoked was strong. Whilst she made some bad errors of judgement on Wednesday evening, Theresa May was right to say we have all had enough. It's just that she hasn't, so far, allowed MPs to say what they are in favour of, though they have had ample opportunities to vote things down.
Where do we go from here? It's difficult to guess, though I think we can guess that MV3 will fail, if it is put at all. It feels as though the indicative votes should either lock the current deal into a referendum, or dispatch Article 50 altogether, with the men in white coats, or John Bercow, taking May away for her own good and everyone else's; but Parliament has, so far, excluded the overtly sensible options. Longer term, we need some inquiry to hold those who peddled lies and fantasies to account, and we also need something like a Royal Commission to consider parameters and rules for whether - if ever - we are to have referendums in this country in future.