Thread by @WildernessPeace

Seriously at the end of my tether.

The UK Parliament is working precisely as intended. All the people who want to change things are tied up in red tape & meaningless tangents, & the folk who want to change things for the worse are reclining on the benches like smug teens.

The vast majority leading the vanguard against the "coup" just want things to go back to the way they were, as if the way things were was somehow not an affront to democracy in itself.

I understand why the SNP are playing along, but it's getting to the point I just can't watch.

But I can't just tune out, because people are going to die if we all tune out. People are *already* dying because too many of us don't know what's going on. And I've only been doing this for 7 years or so - I can't imagine what others are thinking.

We cannot rely on the other parties, because the other parties are not willing to make the great sacrifices necessary to change the UK into a truly functioning democracy. If they were, they would've done it long before now.

Forget the UK. Forget their Parliament. We cannot change them from within: only from without. And the only people who can change it from without are the people of England. Until they make those changes, we're stuck in the boiling pot with them.

Sick of everyone acting surprised by entirely predictable events. Sick of politicians speaking of democracy one moment, yet denying the people of Scotland their democracy another. Sick of the weeping & mourning of the Mother of All Parliaments dying as if it was ever alive.

But most of all, sick of people presenting the status quo of 2014 as if it was some wonderful new deal, some apogee of democracy that's admired the world over.

I've been over it for a long time. I just wish others would realise it too.

Ayes: 328
Noes: 301

So what? What does it matter? It just means the UK Parliament - that wretched institution that I can't stand - has "taken control." I don't WANT Parliament to be sovereign. I want the PEOPLE to be sovereign.

The PM could call a GE, but Lab say they won't back it. The PM could ignore it, & let No Deal happen by default. The PM could bring back the May deal, but it'll fail again.

WHAT DOES IT MATTER.

THIS PLACE IS A MESS.

Even *if* another GE comes to pass, you think the people who stole the referendum & the last election won't do the exact same thing again - emboldened, in fact, because they got away with it last time with a piteous slap on the wrist?

And even *if* somehow they lose another GE, you think that'll be the end of it? You think Corbyn is going to fix this palaver? You think his party will allow him to do what he's promised? He's already backed down on nuclear weapons, why would he be any different on indy?

Meanwhile, the PM and his fellow robber barons will just maneuver themselves to profit as they always intended, wrecking the UK and devastating its people in the process.

To Hell with the lot of them.

Forgive me for not being ecstatic over the PM's inaugural defeat, but you're still treating this as if it's normal politics. You're acting as if this means anything to them.

This is not normal politics. This is an Outside Context Problem that hardly anyone seems to acknowledge.

Case in point: that Rees-Mogg reclining photo. Everyone's retweeting it, making memes of it, laughing at it, pushing it up the search rankings. You think this isn't EXACTLY what they want?

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The PM will be *delighted* to lose his first vote, the first time a PM has lost his first vote in over a century, because it mobilises his base. It makes them think Leaving is under threat. It makes it look like Parliament is acting against the interests of the UK.

Of course he looks furious. Of course he looks flustered. He's manufacturing outrage among the millions of people he's convinced. He wants them to be angry. "How DARE Parliament go against The Will Of The People!" He will say. And they will say "Yeah, how DARE they?"

People. Still. Aren't. GETTING. IT.

This man isn't a Prime Minister as we understand it: he's a conman. He's a thief. He isn't like Cameron or May or anyone before him. So stop treating him as if he was.

God. I'm off to bed.

I'd love to be proven wrong, if only because I'm getting sick of being proven right in all the ways I *don't* want to be.