Public Liability?

All over Britain tonight, people will be arguing in pubs about how the vote should have gone. Whichever way you voted, none of this is your fault. The man in the street simply isn’t equipped to make such complex decisions. Both sides made dozens of superb points about remaining in the EU or leaving, and both sides destroyed those points with dozens of superb counter points. This happened again and again over the past months. The public aren’t political experts and, for many, this monumental decision eventually came down to who they liked (or disliked) most.Maybe leaving is the correct decision. Maybe it isn’t. if we’d studied European politics at university, become a politician and spent the past few years studying the EU situation and discussing it with other experts, we might have voted the right way. The problem is we didn’t do any of this and we pay people who ARE experts to decide these things for us. Don’t feel guilty, because it was never your job to negotiate this minefield. This was a supposedly critical decision, which could destroy Britain and has seemingly caused the British PM to resign, and yet it was left to the man in the street.We’re incapable of voting on the decimation of the NHS and the emergency services, the invasion of Muslim countries, and the spending of hundreds of billions on nuclear missiles to keep Britain a ‘nuclear power’. We were, however, allowed to decide on this, and now whatever happens, the man in the street is to blame. The super-rich elite wouldn’t be affected whichever way this vote went, but now they can raise oil prices, change bank and interest rates, and basically do whatever they like, while pointing at their public scapegoat and gleefully telling us we voted for it.