Meanwhile business/private sector simply continues to get on with things. The politicians can posture as much as they like, they merely react. In contrast, business gets on with life proactively.
We are, others should do the same.
Is a fair point. I’ve been involved tangentially with Brexit preps for my place, albeit on a small scale, mostly working out where the costs of things we need to import and can never make in the UK are likely to go in the next few weeks/months. There’s been considerable volatility and suppliers are only happy to absorb changes so far, so we have to factor this in.
But adopting a pragmatic attitude to business and forecasting for future trading environments is only one small part of how Brexit affects us as a nation…what’s far, far more important is what- let’s call them ‘ordinary people’- need to do, or can actually do, to offset big unexpected change.
It’s simple, really- we have a system where politicians are elected to act in the best interests of the electorate in matters where an individual can’t directly effect an outcome. We influence them by informing them of our concerns and ask them to act on our behalf. We expect them to take a balanced view of the matter, and intercede for us.
Brexit should be one of those matters. But Brexit being what it is, it seems to me that there’s little that ordinary people can do to now to have their concerns addressed. If the contents of these reports are true, those who can’t handle the change will suffer. How can breadliners cope with a surge in retail pricing, for example?
As usual, those who can prepare and offset can and will do so, and those who can’t need help and interventions from their representatives. And they’re not getting that. They’re getting publicly-funded reports suppressed because they don’t fit the vision. It’s difficult to proactively plan for change when you need an elected representative to do that for you, and they in turn are attending to a different agenda.
