The Brexit Bog

It is representative of the continual disarray surrounding the Brexit fallout that, on the day after a parliamentary debate ended with broad agreement that there would be no vote in the Houses on triggering Article 50, a legal case began challenging this very notion.

In addition to the rather farcical nature of this turn of events, it also reflects badly on the British political elite's competence, especially vis-a-vis the generally consensual tone emanating from the members of the EU bloc: in the words of Donald Tusk, there is only one option - "hard Brexit or no Brexit".

But, ignoring this patent lack of direction (or, to put it in the less mild words of a friend of mine, "any bloody clue"), still on show almost 4 months after the referendum, the main source of my frustration is the very real risk that democracy is to be brazenly undermined by those whom we trust with upholding it. In baying for the necessity of parliamentary approval of Article 50, MPs claim the right to control and monitor the very general will from which their power and privileges derive.

I wrote an article spelling out my views on this threat, which was published in 'The London Economic'. I hope I am not the only one who feels alarmed as these state of affairs develop.