I want clever experts with lots of time to work out what works best and everyone else to just shut up unless they know something about it. — unenlightened

Yes. And sublime hypocrisy that the rejection of a second referendum (in favour of repeated attempts to get this through) is based on the idea that you shouldn't get to keep asking the same question until you get the answer you want. — Baden

and his enablers — Wayfarer

The political powers that be need to get their act together and put a candidate forward that isn't a complete disaster. — Judaka

All of the above? — darthbarracuda

And she will be replaced by [Pattern-chaser] — Pattern-chaser

which at the moment find that their interests lie in fomenting division and conflict, which serves to secure their position by dividing the opposition. — unenlightened

To put it bluntly, the nation is no longer a fundamental unit of politics, and has become a trope of nostalgia. What is replacing national government and international relations are global corporations, and it is there that the democratic deficit need to be addressed; it is there that 'The Establishment' already resides. — unenlightened