My dogma ran over my Brexit

Over a third of a century ago, the Labour Party had what was then know as a party withing a party. Militant had infiltrated the Party, and infighting nearly ripped the party apart. We were treated to the unedifying scene of then then Labour leader, Neil Kinnock calling Militant out, with the mantra that you can't play politics with people's lives.

That has stayed with me. You may have dogma, but the rest of us have real lives, you dogma has to live in the real world too.

Fast forward to the 21st century, and the Conservative Party has it's Brexit headbangers thanks to the ERG, and Labour has Momentum. Both ERG and Momentum are dogma driven, and care nothing for how their different dreams affect Joe Bloggs and his job and family.

That JRM is the leader of ERG, is a member of the landed gentry, once went to the hustings WITH HIS NANNY, owns a house with hundreds of rooms and a moat, and yet claims the elite are trying to sabotage Brexit. If he is not the elite then who is? He speaks for no one without a moat, and certainly not for white van man, and yet the Sun and the rest says he does. Everyone is a useful idiot in Brexitlalaland, whose support is needed and cultivated as long as its useful, but be cast aside and told the promises made, well, just can't me met.

And their billionaire backers will get the tax breaks and able to evade taxes that the rest of us have no choice in paying.

And Labour has been taken over by a party within a party, Momentum have mass-joined the Labour Party, mass voted for their chosen leader, Corbyn. He promises this and that, as undeliverable as Brexit's sunlit uplands. Take the railways. Clearly the railway industry isn't working, but Corbyn's matra of nationalising it ignores the fact that the Department of Transport (DOT) micromanages railways that never happened under British Railways when it was underfunded but was able to make its own decisions. Saying nationalising it will not magically make things better as privatisation didn't make it better either. Nor will it save money, Train Operating Companies (ToCs) make less than 3% profit on running services, so privatisation would deliver a one off saving of no more than 3%.

Corbyns seems to believe that EU rules stop him from mass re-nationalisation of industries, thus stopping him creating some kind of socialist utopia. Even when confronted with facts to the contrary, his still sticks to his guns. Labour under Corbyn is a pro-Brexit party, and if you are looking to stop Brexit or mitigate its effects, then don't vote Labour. Or Conservative.

Meaning the first past the post system UK has will not result in a Lib Dem victory even if masses vote for them to stop Brexit. Turkeys don't vote for Christmas, and the Tories in the coalition did not vote for proportional representation.

Anyway you look at it we're screwed, but two parties that are stuck on a crash course with the Brexit cliff edge, supported by a press run by tax avoiding billionaires that want Brexit so not to be subject to new tax avoidance laws. And many people still think Brexit is about taking back control, and yet we know that because of the Withdrawal Bill, the first casualty of Brexit will be Parliamentary Sovereignty, thanks to endless Henry VIIIth clauses allowing ministers to strike off laws and rights with a stroke of a pen.