Election Summary: Spin and Lies All Round

On the Remain camp: finances and pensions will crash. 

On the Leave camp: Migration is too high and there are world markets to explore.

Unsurprisingly, the evidence on both sides is very thin. Taking one of many examples: both camps have polar views on how much Eu law there is in the UK. Leave say 75% and remain about 8%. They have chosen figures from the same report. They chose a figure to suit their argument, not one that actually helps the debate. 

There is so much spin that I am surprised my neck hasn't snapped. What politicians refer to as spin I think most people would say are lies.

So why? Who benefits? The PM is being pressured by the US to remain and that's a powerful pressure. It is clear that reform failed and was a damp squib so that argument doesn't really hold water, hence back to the US pressure.

Boris wants to be PM and this is a route to this. 

Corbyn remains quiet and secretly wants to become Russian I think. 

In my view, it is a great shame that the British public are hoodwinked by spin/lies. This is not what we should expect from people supposedly leading us. Shame there isn't a vote to state our displeasure.

A Key Government Failure in the Referendum -- Lack of Planning

If the Vote Leave is such a disaster why has the Prime Minister allowed a referendum?

Answer

Government has once again failed to think ahead. Look at the Scottish referendum and how MPs on both sides behaved like headless chickens just before the voting. They hadn't thought ahead, that Scotland might vote to leave the UK. 

I am absolutely amazed that the very same thing is happening in the lifetime of one parliament. Surely the government considered that the public might vote to leave the Eu ...and yet once again the politicians are behaving like headless chickens trying to make us vote Remain. 

Perhaps there should be a vote of no confidence in how we run politics. It seems politicians are only keen on winning votes rather than what is good for the country. How many U-turns have there been and mainly due to vote winning? Cameron's first act in his last government was to close grammar schools until he famously faced a backlash.

The premise of this website is that government fails to think, whether it is Labour, Conservative or others. Allowing a referendum on Europe and then trying to shoehorn the UK public demonstrates a lack of ability to plan and think. Is this the type of politician we want?

What we should strive for:

1. We should have politicians with an experience of life, industry, business. Career politicians have proven to be a failure.

2. We need a body to control parliament and to direct them to important and difficult issues such as energy and the NHS. Throwing money at the latter is not the answer and we should find out where the money is spent. 


3. The House of Lords does not work and is full of cronyism. This should be replaced with something that does work and soilves teh issues mentioned in 2.