The bar is set too low.

I spent hours on the doorstep yesterday.  Knocking on doors, chatting to people, finding out how they would vote in the referendum.  There were two recurring themes.  The first was. “I really don’t know how to vote.  I’m not happy with the EU, but could it be the safer option?”   Not so much a statement of endorsement, more a plea for people to offer an alternative to an EU that only one person out of my door stepping actually approved of.  And he was a Lib Dem voter.

But the altogether overwhelming, and more disturbing, view was that the Prime Minister and the Chancellor were, to use a more charitable word than that used by a good number, charlatans.  “They are saying things just to win the vote” said one.  “Funny, there wasn’t any mention of world war three in the renegotiations that happened a few weeks back” said another. 

But most damming of all, "if they thought people didn’t trust political leaders before, they certainly don’t now”.  And that last comment is so sad.  People in a position of power demeaning themselves.  Setting the bar so low that one person compared our leaders to those in a well-known “corrupt state” before finally musing “perhaps that’s why they like the EU so much……”