Open letter to UK Members of Parliament





Dear Member of Parliament (MP)



Many 'interested' individuals and organisations are busy running interference on Brexit, deploying smoke and mirrors to try to ensure they get what they want, apparently at any cost, resulting in a divided and confused population.



But the basic facts are very clear; we already know what history will say about Brexit:



A country that was benefitting significantly from EU membership, in which long term trends show 90% of the population had no problem being a member, voted by an unworkably small majority (for such a big change) to leave, after having been bombarded with sustained mis-information, lies and manipulations by politicians and newspapers.



And what of those UK politicians? What will history make of their contribution?



When the referendum result came in, sensible, inclusive, responsible leadership would have calmed the country and given time to cost and explore options. Instead:



Labour and Tory combined to dismiss the views of half the population ("Brexit means Brexit").



They unilaterally decided their own political ideologies would be best served

By a complete break, with all EU bodies, as soon as possible

Thereby disenfranchising the remaining half of the population .

Whilst repeatedly attempting to shut down any further public debate.

Leading to a negligent and reckless launch of article 50

Thereby multiplying and magnifying the already severe risks





The UK is in crisis, so there's no point beating about the bush: these actions by left and right wing politicians are manipulative, incompetent, and are causing unnecessary damage to the UK and her population. In the real world, leaders behaving like this would be sacked.





Westminster is clearly an odd and highly pressured place though, and it would be difficult to believe any of the politicians actually intended harm.

But, despite some honourable exceptions (those MPs who have been consistently striving to communicate the reality of Brexit and those that have risked approbation and worse by putting the well being of the UK's people before the inane demands of their own party), it seems inevitable that posterity will be deeply dismayed by the actions of UK politicians through 2016 and 2017.

