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our current political class are experienced professionals, and look what a terrifying shit-show they’ve made of things.
Can't disagree with this on the whole. But maybe it's not their qualifications that are the problem. I'm thinking "baby" and "bathwater" here.
A slightly more serious answer:
We have a system level issue here, I think - DAG has pointed out on Twitter that the EU are issuing comprehensively researched, reviewed and worded documents on Brexit - what it means, in detail, in a legally binding format. We're issuing speeches that feature jokes about carrots.
Why is this? Why are our ruling class playing to the gallery whilst doing absolutely nothing of any substance? It's because this is how politics is done, in the modern day, here in the UK.
The level of basic competence on display is essentially zero - yet there is no nationwide call for the government to be replaced as we consider this normal, and indeed it is normal.
We have not elected these people on the basis of competence, we've elected them because of partisan reasons and (in my experience of right-wing voters) an existential terror of higher income tax making anything other than a Tory vote totally unthinkable.
Until such a time as the needle swings the other way then selecting members of the public who are driven by a desire to serve the country for four years isn't, I suspect, going to actually find people less competent at the whole governing lark - the bar being set to a negative height does help here I admit.
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Dammit
Everything Tom said, plus- our current political class are experienced professionals, and look what a terrifying shit-show they’ve made of things.