It’s a little frustrating that MPs who
(a) paid no attention to leave’s breaking the law
(b) ignored Cambridge Analytica
(c) ignored the DCMS report on misinformation; and
(d) voted to trigger Article 50 despite warnings
...are *now* worried about Johnson overriding parliament.
It’s only *now*, when it’s too late, that they start to care. There have been *plenty* of opportunities to intervene, and plenty of *reasons* to intervene, but it would have taken political bravery to rock the boat. Where was that bravery then?
It’s not just the Brexiters who’ve refused to listen to experts. Almost all MPs refused to listen to expert warnings about triggering Article 50. Almost all refused to listen to expert warnings about electoral interference. Etc etc.
It’s been a failure from start to finish. It’s not surprising the Boris Johnson thinks he can ride roughshod over parliament when parliament has been such an abject failure in the process so far.
Perhaps Cambridge Analytica was ‘too complicated’ for the electorate to understand. Perhaps Cambridge Analytica was too complicated for the MPs to understand - but it *shouldn’t* have been. MPs had (and have( a duty to understand this. It’s their job.
And yet they either don’t understand it - and it’s significance - or they’re too scared or too feeble to take on the consequences. I wouldn’t like to say which. Either way, it’s an abject failure by our politicians.
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