Procrastination is not the best cure
Is the UK on life support or is it in a medically induced coma?
Is it precision surgical removal from Europe we are seeing to allow Britain to flourish and grow, or just hacking off bits with a blunt Brexit axe and hoping for the best?
It’s academic how this decision-making limbo has been brought about, the result is the same for us — inertia.
There’s still a heartbeat and a pulse, but something mechanical is doing the breathing for us. We’ve opted out of controlling our own destiny as Brexit rolls on; we’re losing the will to carry on.
You may delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again.
— Benjamin Franklin
It’s what’s not happening — within and around us — that’s slowly killing our confidence.
Businesses’ gross profits are being negatively affected; that means the profitability of the country is ailing too. The £1’s health is dipping; sterling is about to be stretchered into the neighbouring bed. The ward is filling up.
It seems no one is walking into intensive care with ideas, energy and a fully-charged defibrillator to jolt the heart of the economy back to the here and now. Why not? It’s a fair question.
Sometimes it seems it’s easier to be distracted by BREXIT’s complexities than to act to an over-arching plan that puts the UK at the heart of the thinking. Of course, that’s easy to say, but it’s potentially easier to do too. Make the big gains quickly or risk further damage as the detail — important as it is — is sweated over. Make the big gains quickly, or they’re off the table.
“It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
Tratos is unusual. It’s birthplace and roots are in Europe, but it is heavily invested in the UK. I’m a UK citizen. There’s still a huge amount about this country to love and we remain committed — but that doesn’t mean we’re not keen to see a debilitating deadlock broken and progress — salvation in fact — begin.
Every company in the UK is suffering now and will likely suffer from Brexit’s backdraft.* When a decision is finally arrived at, whatever that is — deal, no deal, stay, go, go but keep one foot in — businesses need something to regroup around and plan their next steps beyond survival to success.
Doing nothing is as damaging as an act of violence; this can’t go on.
“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
-Abraham Lincoln
If Parliament’s members can’t make a decision then they can’t stay, they must go; it’s time to decide or depart.
The people of this country gave their decision to MPs and it is MPs’ job to do the work that they were elected to do.
Why should we pay them if they can’t make decisions? In the course of ‘not doing’ they’re ‘not listening’ either. Another referendum would be disastrous. It’s procrastination of the first order and it’s not true democracy. Leave was the decision, ‘how’ was down to the politicians.
“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
– Mark Twain
There is a very British revolution going on. I’m concerned that this revolution will cross the chasm between protest & freedom of speech to insurrection. Look again at those attacks on Anna Soubry, Jacob Reece Mogg and his children and Jo Cox.
Going back to the public with another referendum would be the worst decision. If we make only one decision I hope it is to rule out that one. Another referendum would be an admission that those who walk our corridors of power really can’t organise Britain’s release from Europe — and that’s a very dangerous admission.
“In delay there lies no plenty.”
– William Shakespeare
Our representatives on both sides of the House need to stop point-scoring and pulling each other down and instead work together to support what is best for this country. It’s why they were appointed. Put the interests of the country first. Why? Simple economics. Business is suffering and someone is going to have to pay for all the debt.
In short, we’ve had enough. The whole country has had enough. Make the best decision, support it, move on. We’ll deal with it.
* backdraft: a phenomenon in which a fire that has consumed all available oxygen suddenly explodes when more oxygen is made available, typically because a door or window has been opened.
