A Brave New World

Subject: A Brave New World.

As we witness the arcane system of government which we have in this country, MPs bouncing up and down from a sedentary position,  leaping to their feet to catch the Speakers eye and then sitting down again. It's a strange almost childish feature of our Parliament and contrasts with the sober procedure in the American Congress.
This is heightened by the sound of the Speaker barking out the names of the MP he wishes to speak next in his polished, effected ultra posh accent, admonishing anyone in the chamber who upsets him. Of course the baying of the parliamentarian wishing to show their support for what the person at the dispatch box has just said is far less belligerent to what one sometimes sees in the parliaments of countries in the East European block where it is not uncommon to see a fist fight break out on the floor of the chamber.
Whilst I am a faithful student of historical tradition we must seem anachronistic to most of the world and pretty much out of touch with our own local people who simple want answers, not performance. It's all very  Shakespearian, dated, and out of touch with the modern world.
The procedure are Machiavellian in their complexity. White papers. Green papers. Whips
Adjournment motions. Adjournment debates. The aye and no lobbies. Masters at Arms
and The Keeper of Keys the list goes on and of course for the people who live amongst all this "tom foolery" it distracts them from the real world outside. They begin to think that this is the real world and what goes on outside is frankly suspect.
This dichotomy is strangely at the basis of much of the discontent shown in the vote for Brexit since on the one hand, the ills of the country, particularly in the unemployed poorly educated parts was conveniently palmed off on Europe and the bureaucrats in Brussels and in its place, the jingoistic call to place their future in the British, House of Commons and our home grown bureaucracy here.
There has been little or no reference to the right wing  composition of the government in Whitehall even though it's recent history has seen an almost brutal willingness to inflict extra hardship on the poor whilst rewarding the rich. It seem that the unemployed in Wakefield have swallowed hook line and sinker the stories emanating from the right wing newspapers of Murdock and Desmond and, like startled lambs led to the slaughter, will become the grist in the mill of the new, super efficient, contract driven business model which will have to be severely competitive, irrespective of the cost, matching wage efficiencies with regulation ditching so we can work all hours 'god sends' to stay afloat. Oh the "Brave New World" which awaits us.
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