RE: The lies and hypocrisy of Boris Johnson
OK, lets get it over with: You are a remoaner! (moaning is a perfectly reasonable reaction to this sad, sad circus). Johnson is just the latest in a long row of lying, egomaniac authoritarians in international politics. Erdogan, Modi, Trump, Putin. Among that bunch he's actually a bit of a charmer, but we are all shocked by this latest trick of his. I am writing grants to hopefully suplement my Kickstarter, but as soon as I am back making Phill, I know who will have to feature heavily on a couple of pages.
One thing I would hope for Britain was that the voting system could be changed to a proportional representation system instead of the winner takes it all system. That way your Green vote might actually make it to Parliament. None of the big parties really want it, so it is maybe not that realistic, but it would be much better for you. The referendum showed how unaccustomed the UK system is to actually listen to the people.
The big parties like the system as it is and it benefits them. We have just one Green MP and they have little chance of gaining more as it stands. People are out demonstrating against this latest action today, but I could not make it there.
Yes, it might work with the voting system if just not people were so aggressively divided. It scares me that both UK and the US are in such a poor cultural state right now. I talked to a British violin builder a couple of month ago and he couldn't talk to his father anymore because of Brexit. That is really, terribly sad.
I don't know too many people who are in favour of Brexit, but in some contexts it may be best not to mention it to avoid unnecessary conflict.