Picking up on recent events

This isn’t the second post I was intending but I have been away for a couple of days. The Sunday papers have carried stories of how the Brexit Party would now get the third most number of votes with Nigel Farage once more enjoying a surge in popularity. At the same time talks between Labour and the Conservatives seem to be somewhat stalled with a call for red lines to be relaxed to allow for progress. But will a new party cure the effects of division and polarisation by offering more of the same? And the arrangements for discussion between the different Ministers and their Shadows are commendable in many ways but we are still looking to binary ‘in/out’ or two party approaches to solve the problems these approaches gave rise to in the first place. So when will we realise the need to look at things afresh and in a way that allows movement from fixed positions as the evidence and the argument allows? We need something more like a consensus forged from bringing together a multiplicity of views; views which can be appreciated for their own merits . How this is to be achieved in this situation will be the subject of future blogs.