The UK is approaching a crisis. Deal or no deal – or no Brexit at all. May’s deal is dead in the water, and no deal is unpalatable to all but the headbangers. No Brexit is unacceptable to the screaming troublemakers who must be appeased no matter what. So what is to happen, and who is to be betrayed?
For betrayal it is. No Brexit betrays the mythical 52% of the country who voted Leave. May’s deal betrays the equally mythical 48% wishing to Remain. And no deal betrays us all and tosses the UK to the vultures.
In such volatile times, one turns naturally to social media. Here, all schools of thought engage in restating their position dogmatically, while bots spew ungrammatical bile whenever anybody types Remain or EU or People’s Vote. Or healthy debate, as it is commonly known.
In this Bot’s Brexit, the weakness of an argument is determined by the volume of bots deployed to support it. This relationship is commonly called Zuckerberg’s Law.
So, which of our representatives will stand up and make a decision? The language of Brexit has painted almost everyone into a corner. Nobody dares not to respect the overwhelmingly narrow margin of victory upon which this farce has been built.
For this is what it boils down to. One referendum, one corrupt campaign. One wilful misinterpretation of the outcome. The opportunity to debate the issue was lost in the craven desire to forfeit decision making to those least informed – The People. The People voted, and The People spoke. And The People said, well, we don’t know.
As politics focussed upon this one issue, and became massively bogged down in the realities of Brexit, the Language of Brexit has been ramped up. We no longer have two factions who disagree, instead we have two raging mobs who threaten devastation and human sacrifice if they don’t get their way.
And so the UK heads, like a lamb to the slaughter, to the crisis of 29 March 2019. Will it all end in tears?