Brexit — You’re being Silly

It’s become fashionable to normalize madness these days. I’ve got four passports, all currently attached to caricature joke governments. Democracy has become a joke, but not a funny one.

Take, for example, this recent letter I got from my MP (Member of Parliament) regarding Brexit.

For those not familiar with the UK system, one of the things I quite like about it is that our elected representatives generally have to reply to letters from their constituents. The response you get might be formulaic, and is likely to be at least partly written by a member of the MP’s staff, but it has to at least vaguely address your concerns.

And even Parliament eventually has to move with the times (a little bit) so they started treating emails in the same way, at least if they’re sent via the official channels.

Through a fellow journalist, Mike Butcher, I found out about a great website called WriteToThem which lets you look up who your MP is and contact them in the appropriate way to ensure a response. Mike is a vocal campaigner against Brexit and for a #peoplesvote so when I saw his Tweet asking people to write to their representatives in Parliament if they were concerned about Brexit, I feverishly penned the following:

Tuesday 16 October 2018

Dear Rebecca Pow,

As one of your constituents, I would like…