I rather think that what people are fed up of is popularism and political short cuts.
Blair got in and promised a lot of stuff. And in stead of doing things properly and sorting out problems, he took short cuts and made fudges - PFI being the best example but not the only one. Shiny happy looking policies that people liked, because they did well of them. But he also kicked difficult decisions down the road because they were unpopular and didn't win votes.
Remember here, that Blair had the biggest majority for years - he COULD (and should) have made unpopular decisions domestically, and got away with it.
Instead he made one REALLY big unpopular decision, which did a lot to destablise global politics in the long term. And thats the one he's remembered for.
And he made one HUGE mistake that no one really noticed and blamed on his successor. He didn't show due dilegence over the banking system in the UK - and let the banking sector expose itself to, to much high risk debt.
So 2008 comes along and Brown is stiffed with the financial crash - which of course played a significant role. He tries make some tough decisions, some of which were right others of which, were a lot more dubious. But tough decisions are generally not popular decisions.
So along comes Cameron and Clegg and he offers some nice sweeties to the public, who lap them up without question. Cameron offers a solution to the problem by heaping the burden of sorting out the mess, on the poorest - because they didn't vote for him. And instead of making the difficult decisions that needed to be made, he found two nice little scapegoats. One called Nick and one called the EU.
So the can was kicked down the line.
And come the next election, Nick pays the price and David has the referendum on his hands.
Cameron continues with this austerity, which isn't terribly popular with some, but is very popular with all the people who voted for him. Great, they'll vote for him again. And any problems we got we can just blame on the EU. Or we can actively ignore, cos they don't win us vote. We can just pretend we don't need to build any houses because the NIMBYs who already own houses don't like it. We can ignore problems with the rental market because renters don't vote Conservative and Conservatives are all landlords.
And we kicked the can down the line.
So by now, we have a bunch of people who are pretty pissed off. Cos they have been shat on by austerity or they don't have houses and they've been told its all the EU's fault.
And look some shiny sweeties. The NHS.
So they kick the shit out of the popularists and demand that they get their sweeties.
Along comes Theresa May with a right wing government, not a centrist one.
And she decides to go along with the popularist backlash. Does all the things she thinks they want to hear. Except she's not listening properly. She isn't giving the NHS sweeties out. And she's not ending austerity. And she's certainly not sorting out the housing issue.
She's left with a problem in parliament. She hasn't got the numbers to do what she wants. So she makes a massive miscalucation and goes to the public, thinking she'll get a huge majority because she's offering them what they want in Brexit.
Except of course, she's not. And she's not accounted for party loyalty. And she dropped a clanger in an ill thought out plan for a deeply unpopular policy in the dementia tax.
So instead of looking like she was handing out sweeties, she looked like she was handing out cod liver oil pills.
And she got punished for it.
May didn't realise just how hooked on sweeties the public are. The public don't understand policy and that difficult decisions need to be made. And she isn't smart enough to understand the issues that need to be made anyway, because she so disconnected to the reality of the problems that people are facing day to day. And neither are any of her cabinet. They can't fix problems that they don't understand. They can't understand the problems because they are all millionaires who are incredibly insulated from problems relating to the basics of housing and putting food on the table.
She also doesn't really get popularism.
And she's squashed between Corbyn with his unreality sweeties and supporters who live in la la land and also don't really get a lot of the problems they say they do because they are so ridiculosy middle class its untrue. You have the bizarre specticle of him accusing the BBC and its journalists of being too privileged yet his own inner circle is every bit as bad and stuffed with middle class Oxford and Cambridge grads. Tellingly Corbyn's 2017 manifesto offered very little to those at the bottom of the income centiles and just was all about 'punishing the elite'. It wasn't about solving a problem - it was about using scapegoats as an easy solution to appear as if you are solving the problem.
And on the other hand, she has Johnson and Mogg offering sweeties to hard line leavers over the EU. They too are totally disconnected with the real problems underlying it all, but they don't care cos they see power and £££££ at the end of it. But they get to shout about immigration, British values and two world wars.
The problem is NOT that people are fed up with centre politics. It that they are so addicted to quick solutions and sweeties, that they aren't interested considering how you solve the problems. So popularists on the left and right have taken over from popularists in the centre.
So the idea of a popularist movement from the centre, just boggles my mind.
And the irony remains that if you want to sort out difficult problems you have to abandon idelogical beliefs and sit down and find actual solutions which take in considerations from both the left and the right. And look at who is going to suffer, and work to minimise that effect. And this by its very nature HAS to come from the centre.
Instead now, we have got to the point where the population, is looking for 'strong leaders' to effectively tell the opposition side saying things they don't want to hear, because its rather incapable with their own popularist agenda. They now want to 'silence' or 'get rid' of the people saying what problems are. Because if they do, they seem to think the problem will also magically disappear.
The desire to scapegoat, punish or blame is therefore getting stronger. And the ability to effectively resolve the underlying problems is getting work, because there is a reduction in transparency and discussion because everyone is too fucking scare to tell the truth to power.
The bottom line in all this, is whilst the public is so smacked up on political sweeties they'll chance them, because the politicians have failed to be adults and do whats best for the kids over a long period of time. The kids are now smack tramps, who will do anything for a fix.
Reality hasn't gone away. And we will hit an enormous crisis point. And that crisis point is coming at us fast, even though May is still trying to kick the can down the road.
The crisis point is about the total collaspe of local government. Its about Brexit, and all the system failures there. Its about the total failure of safeguarding protocols. Its about generational inequality. Its about a housing system that is geared up to investors not for people to have homes. Its about increasing wealth inequality and inequality of opportunity. Its about a massive shift in demographics and the consequences of this.
And no one is really addressing ANY of these issues. Because sweeties. Because, lets blame left and right. And some jews. And the Islamics. And the EU.
NO ITS YOUR FUCKING POLITICIANS OFFERING YOU CRACK RATHER THAN BEING GROWN UP AND DEALING WITH ISSUES THATS YOUR PROBLEM.
I am getting to the point of thinking that the picture that is emerging is once that leads to anarchy, regardless of Brexit and regardless of who wins the next election.
Why? Because the lack of political will to solve problems isn't there.
We've fallen into the trap of looking for heroes to save us. When reality we need saving from ourselves. If I look left or right, I see the potential for riots and food shortages and mass unemployment. I see the desire to use the law to now stop opportunites to find solutions, in favour of ideological purity. I see a loss of faith in media which is so catatrophic the truth has no meaning anymore, indeed the truth is a problem which must be hidden from sight and to speak it, is a crime. I see democracy which has died and all we are left with is a power struggle through intimidation and bullying. I see a country so divided it no longer has any sense of common interest, only interests of fragmated groups of like minded individuals who only talk to people who mirror them, and demonise those who do not conform to their group.
This all leads only to two things; a bloody revolution or a civil war of some description. Together with a large amount of very serious food shortages or medical shortages in the process.
And I'm having a really bloody hard time thinking of an alternative outcome.
There might well be one, but the direction of travel at the moment, isn't giving me much cause for hope, because no one - and I mean no one - has this idea of 'national interest above political self interest'.