Good heavens!
British politicians are generally better than American because the Parliamentary system sorts and sieves them far more effectively and speedily than our non-functional non-system.

The current situation should have been an easy opportunity for competent leaders to show their competence. Instead, they're pointlessly squabbling and bitching like Americans.

Situation: All three main parties were caught on the wrong side of Brexit. Nobody had been listening to the actual people of England.

Opportunity: Now that the majority opinion of the actual people has been expressed, at least one party should take the side of the actual people.

Ideally this one party should be Labour, since EU damages Labour-type people, and Labour-type people were the deciding majority for Leave.

Squabbling: Labour is stuck with Corbyn, an American-level subidiot who may have halfway favored Brexit but spoke for Remain. The rest of the party opposes Corbyn because they want EVEN MORE EU TYRANNY, but Corbyn won't step down.

The Conservatives aren't stuck because Cameron, showing proper English competence and sense for once, stepped down. The other likely candidates for PM are acting even crazier than Americans. Gove has consistently favored Leave, but he's an inadequate leader. As I've noted before he often does the right thing for weird reasons. Boris had stepped in at the last minute to push for Leave, but until that last minute he had been bashing all nationalists and offering to kill Trump. Now Boris has pulled out of the leadership contest but his sister is making openly libelous accusations against Gove. It's probably down to May, who was firmly and consistently for Remain. The quasi-aptronymic Leadsom is with the people but doesn't seem to have a chance.

Result: England will be left AGAIN with all parties opposing the people. Not a good result.


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Relevant sidenote: Columnist Janet Daley, who is often brilliantly perceptive and sometimes annoyingly partisan, hits the perceptive side today with a nearly complete understanding of Graybill's Law.

Labels: Aptronym Alert, skill-estate

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