Thank you for a painfully honest article. I love the English - I hate the winner-take-all system that has divided them and the world for centuries.
The English will overcome their own problems, but what I am afraid of is that the top wants to keep on living as it always has, and that the bottom will end up paying the price. At worst, the English can have a revolution and overthrow themselves.
This is what I do not understand from the perspective of the pathetic two-party system: While in the EU, the English had to vote proportionally for the EU. It enables other parties to come to the fore like never before, including the UKIP that was very anti-EU.
The freedom to vote in freedom was used to go back to the voting system that does not deliver freedom. It is a joke wrapped up in a pun delivered as a double entendre. How can the English be so hilariously mistaken?
And now, you bet that the political diversity will shrivel back to what it once was. Not that it mattered much because it is/was/and always will be the two parties that will keep you locked in place.
Are there ways to liberate yourselves? It depends. If the British economy goes back to what it was before the UK joined the EU, then the economy will diminish. As a result, the Brits will likely become meaner players on the world stage and compete with the world in ways that fall below the standards of the rest of the world. Then, the internal system will hold steadfast to that meaner source of income, like it were the goose with the golden eggs. In that scenario, there is no way to liberate yourselves.
But if you act swiftly, before future necessary steps are put in place, and vote for those that want voter reform, then you stand a chance.
Learn from the mistakes made ten years ago.
https://medium.com/the-national-discussion/how-to-succeed-as-a-third-party-fbf355b58b26
Succeeding as a third party requires the third party to split itself in two factions of equal power during the negotiations with the enemy. Once that once-in-a-blue-moon moment arrives, the negotiations must be done smarter. The Libertarian Party was a dumb-ass party (no, truly, not kidding) when they negotiated. Wet behind the ears like the Niagara Waterfalls. Dumb-asses. They missed the single once-in-a-blue-moon chance and they didn't even realize it.
Enough said. The English will survive, but instead of having liberated themselves from the EU, they will likely become even more of a thorn in the side of the world. I hope the Brits will revolt at the voting booth. The UK is not a real democracy, but you have the voting power to become one. Change that dumb-ass winner-take-all system where the collective decides and the individuals are subjects, truly like slaves.
The chance is real small, though, because no one ever educated the English about all the different forms of democracy, and the two parties made sure not to tell anyone, except in manners that kept the water troubled so no one could see what lies are laying at the bottom of British society.
Good luck with it all.
P.S. Umair Haque knows nothing about political systems. I suspect he is from a winner-take-all nation himself, never having looked into that specific mirror, blind in one eye. But, yes, passion he has. Not capable, though, of seeing the larger picture, only the small picture.
