This Government's tied up in NOTs

 

As honesty steadily rots

I think if you join the dots

You’ll see them Complaining,

From future – Abstaining;

This Government’s tied up in “NOT”s

 

Negative motivation tends not to be productive.

Positive motivation inspires and rewards – and as you get closer to the goal the results of that journey become apparent and provide positive feedback. Negative motivation on the other hand can be unproductive – “I want to NOT do this” (e.g. eat that extra chocolate, have that further drink”.

We have seen over four years the biggest negative campaign in history. Leave united over what they did NOT want -  unelected  bureaucrats, laws imposed on the UK by “Brussels”. immigration from the EU. There was no unity over anything else, which is why those who supported Leave could never agree what Brexit was.

Over 4 years possible Brexits have been met with “We do NOT want that”. Single Market, Customs Union. The Chequers Deal. A border in the Irish Sea. The Theresa May Deal taken to Parliament. A Final say referendum to decide democratically what was evidently not decided in 2016.  Theresa May at all.

You would think that nothing would be achieved following this logic, and you would be correct. Boris Johnson achieved a Withdrawal Agreement by breaking the logic, and accepting the Border in the Irish Sea which he said no British PM could accept.  Some of us wrote that this was just a segue to a No deal – “Any Deal Will Do” because he did not intend to fulfil it. But amazingly 28% of the British electorate appeared to believed him. The argument I heard most often was that Tory supporters argued for “NOT Jeremy Corbyn”

This too -  the Border in the Irish Sea. now joins the list of what the hard Right Tories that are now in control of Government do NOT want. Hence the Internal Market Bill which contradicts that “Any Deal will do”, which as predicted turned out NOT to be something the UK was committed to.

Now, if you are a disaster capitalist seeking merry hell in the UK in order that the turbulence can create what Jacob Rees-Mogg calls “super-normal profit opportunities” then I understand your motivation.  I understand it and despise it.  If not then I do not understand support now for what the Boris Johnson government has turned out to be.

If you keep telling us what you do NOT want then there is an ever-decreasing level of positive future for the UK. This has reached its inevitable conclusion where we are way past the time at which business needed to know what to plan for in 2021, and our Government is still busy saying what they do NOT want, and blaming business for being not prepared – for a future which they do not know. That is ridiculous.

Where does that Leave the Prime Minister? It seems that he does NOT want to have the duties of the Prime Minister. I am not surprised.
Where does that leave the UK? NOT with any positive future.

The biggest peacetime crisis in our history calls for a Government of National Unity in which competence, expertise and integrity would be the criteria for participation.

 

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