Re: <nettime> It goes beyond the Meat Loaf Problem

[Roman Seidl <rot@granul.at>]

> Partisanism makes the world easier but does not get it right.

It does not get less strange here. To me your position could not be more 
paradox. Argue for a non-partisan view in favour of a much worse option: 
blaming persons who may just be pawns in a game which is beyond their 
control.

Labour is torn. The move to support a referendum is something that is a 
risk and will make them lose parts of their base and some MPs. It may be 
late, even too late but it is still a risk. The withdrawal agreement 
never had any serious backing within the base or the MPs, it was never 
an option.

Not backing Corbyn is partly just an approach to divide labour once 
again. It is clear this is not an option the leader of a party can back, 
this is not a personal matter. You can't have your party divided as the 
leader, it is your job to avoid that.

The only may out would be someone out of the involved factions. But I am 
not sure if this would be even possible with the crazy limitation that 
the UK system imposes on parliament.

Meanwhile the whole Brexit mess seems a minor problem for the UK to me. 
It just revealed, that the whole political system is broken. A 
parliament that can be held hostage by government combined with first 
past the post mixed with modern political marketing (i.e. Facebook, 
Cambridge Analytica, etc.) seems to be the perfect recipe for complete 
disaster.

The UK is way worse off than the US, it will just take some time for 
this to become obvious.

cheers,
roman
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