5 April

Politics as sport, an example. Brexit again. Divided into pro-Brexit and anti-Brexit forces, which is how politics should work. However outside politics, this is also how the public is tending to line up, backing their respective 'side'. What I don't see is the discussion that should come before all that taking of sides, it's mostly just like watching sport. For example, I think the idea of leaving the EU and being a 'sovereign Britain' is a fantasy. However I also see that there are actually very good reasons that the UK and Europe are not compatible. They have fundamentally different ideas about societies, as you can see in their legal systems. Common law versus civil law. On that issue, I'm on the side of the Brexiteers, common law society is far superior to civil law society.