Rather than insert this topic into one of the existing threads I thought it more appropriate to start a new one. The existing threads have now descended into orgies of recrimination and nastiness, anyway, so let's hope that will can have a little rational discussion before the inevitable happens.
Did anyone else watch the BBC2 programme on the EU referendum campaign last night?
My overwhelming impression was that it presented the United Kingdom as a country with politicians - on both sides - as being shallow, self-serving, barely competent, lacking strategic vision and venal. A country not at ease with itself and not at ease with the world in the 21st century.
It was conceived by a prime minister for purely party management purposes who lacked the perception that it might not give the result he desired. The remain campaign was run by people who largely ignored the noises coming from the electorate.
The exit campaign tapped into fears expressed by elements of the electorate which they then magnified and distorted, dismissing any rational objection as a lie.
It certainly asked questions about the nature of government in the United Kingdom. My conclusion was that the whole process was flawed, poorly managed and a travesty of "democracy".
