Too complex for public to vote on

MANY believe that the Brexit vote was more of a knee-jerk reaction, made without real thought or knowledge, and I suspect they intentionally water down their criticism to avoid the derisive response that follows anything said that is unpalatable but nevertheless true! (Shades of the Trump’s suicidal comments in the US).

I don’t believe for one moment that the vast majority of those who voted to leave did so after careful consideration of multiple pros and cons. To be brutally honest, in today’s Britain, anyone who simply promised that our wage packets would rise by 5% if we voted a particular way, would have a landslide victory.

This was far too complex and important an issue to be left to Joe Public. Isn’t that why we have evolved a political system: to put in power those who are most qualified and best suited to run our affairs? However well-meaning and passionate they may be, I don’t want this nation to be run by the blind and benighted.

I wish there had been a long and searching debate leading to the vote, but the truth I fear is that most believed Cameron & Co knew what they were doing and would not have left themselves open to defeat, or that it would suffice to show genuine concern about the current and relatively unimportant immigration issue by putting in a “protest vote”. How wrong they were and we shall be watching the debris of that fateful vote lapping on our shores for decades to come.

Unless of course some brave and eminently capable soul emerges from the present chaos to acknowledge that “we got it wrong”, so let’s work together to put Humpty Dumpty together again!

There of course we face another obstacle because Cameron, May and other leaders have been quick to say after expressing doubts about Brexit that the British public have spoken and “we will do as they say”.

What absolute rubbish! If the calculations of thousands of experts show that in the lifespan of anyone reading this we British are going to be less well-off, suffer a poorer quality of life and become a minor nation with little say in the world, then someone please grasp the nettle and sort it all out in a brief battle rather than a long drawn out process that seems sure to fail.

In engaging that way, we could also surely cure old domestic ills and have a truly united England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

“The man who never alters his opinions is like stagnant water, breeding reptiles of the mind.”

Perhaps we could change Brexit to Bropportunity? JK Palmer Mountain Ash