Parliament’s handling of Brexit has descended beyond farce into tragedy. It’s just embarrassing. And mystifying to the public, since all we hear from them are soundbite slogans, most of which don’t make much sense if you consider them for more than a few seconds.

News coverage doesn’t offer much help. It feels like it’s all surface, with any in-depth investigations considered too confusing for the public. Does anyone even know what’s in the deal they’re bickering over? To the best of my understanding, it’s establishing the separation and the foundation of how they’ll go on to negotiate new terms. It’s nowhere near the end of the process. And we can’t even agree whether to get on at this junction or circle the roundabout a few more times, before driving off the road and crashing into a ditch.

It’s embarrassing, showing parliament up even more obviously as an anachronistic institution. While there may be some good MPs, they seem to have trouble achieving anything over the mob that bay and jeer at each other in what passes for debate. I won’t say that they’re acting like schoolchildren, because any school whose kids acting like that would be suffering sanctions.

Why is Politics?

MPs seem to embrace, or be constricted by, the archaic culture of parliament, as though it offers a sense of stability. They stick to the ritual of way things have been done for centuries, even when updating them could make things more efficient. And they’re generally (lower case) conservative, preferring to stick to the way things always have been, and yearning for the glory days of empire.

That’s not what government is for. That’s not what politics is for. They’re there to make and change the laws that govern how individuals within the nation interact with one another. They’re there to guide society as it adapts to changes.

Society is not a static system, and there’ll always be change, so laws cannot remain static. Changes comes far faster these days than it did a century ago, yet how much has Parliament changed in that time?

Politics, and political systems, just don’t seem capable of keeping up with the rate of change in the modern world. Attempts to modernise are piecemeal, slapping technology on top of the existing way of doing things, rather than re-evaluating the existing systems.

What’s needed is a complete rethink of how politics works. But that’s unlikely to benefit those in power, so why would they want to do it? I hate the idea of revolution, which feels like a failure of reason, but I’ve started to wonder how far these idiots will go before it becomes the only reasonable course of action.