Who's really in control here?

TAKING BACK CONTROL?

It was one of the big slogans of the Leave campaign.  It was one of the vaguest, most meaningless slogans of the Leave campaign, but it had a simple appeal to people who didn't really understand why their lives were being hit so hard.  They wanted to take back 'control' from the EU - which in reality controls very little of our day to day lives.  But who would this mythical 'control' be given to?

Since this was all about the UK, supposedly gaining powers it had lost, the implication was greater control for the UK constitutional set up.  For the major components of a representative democracy - executive, legislature and judiciary.  In very simple terms the legislature creates the law, the executive administers it, and the judiciary ensures compliance.

So why are the Leave fanatics getting so upset when this happens in practice?  First off it was the judges, who ruled that the law required parliament to approve the activation of Article 50.  A 'newspaper' (rag) headline declared they were "Enemies of the People".  For doing their constitutional job.  For daring to ensure that the law was in control.  Instead of accepting the judgement, the government wasted a considerable amount of taxpayers' money in trying to get a different decision.  What's so hard about accepting the rule of law?

Then it was the MPs who 'dared' to vote against the frankly pathetic bill that May hopes will give her unlimited power to batter through major constitutional changes that weren't even approved by the slender majority in an advisory referendum.  Now it's the House of Lords, over whom she tried to loom threateningly, because they have tried to minimise some of the damage being caused to a large group of people.  How dare they actually think of putting people first....?

But if this Brexit farce is consistently damaging and suggestive of a bleak future, it still manages to throw up plenty of comedy.  Who couldn't laugh at some of the over the top reactions of the fanatics?  So now we have the far right, who wanted to take back control, deciding that they don't like the control being shown because it doesn't exactly match the control they want it to be.  Or something like that.

So they're pushing a petition to abolish the House of Lords.  You couldn't, to use a phrase so beloved of these people, make this shit up.  Not only are the EU institutions unfit to meet their demands, so are the UK's.  The irony is that many of us on the left have for decades wanted the Lords replaced with something more in line with a democratic state.  Now the numpties are pushing for the right decision for all the wrong reasons.  What a shower.