It has now been well over three years since the EU Referendum, since when we seem to have been stuck in a time warp as the UK Parliament has failed time and again to implement the decision - and it was a decision given to the British people to make - to leave the institution that is the European Union.   The vote was pretty close but clear with a majority well over a million votes.

Now I confess to have voted to leave - mainly for reasons that might be partly selfish,  based partly on family history but principally because I thought it best for the country to regain its independence, to be able to conduct its own affairs and to confirm its place as a leading nation in world affairs, trade and international relations.  I quite accept that those who voted to remain in the EU are more than entitled to their view but in the end a democratic decision was made by the people and needed to be respected and acted upon.

But the way that Parliament has behaved in all that time has been a national disgrace and continues to be so.   MPs have shown themselves to be incapable of applying reason to carrying out the will of the majority but instead we have had a litany of argument, manoeuvre and evasion all attempting to disguise the reality that the majority of MPs did not agree with the referendum result and so have used the three years to indulge in blatant political opportunism all leading to the farcical situation in which the nation now finds itself.  They shout, they argue, they rant, they bring the game into disrepute and wonder why most people outside of Westminster or even London are thoroughly tired of them and all their works.

Last night I watched the first ten minutes or so of the BBC Question Time programme which quickly descended into yet more shouting, arguing and ranting leaving the audience once again perplexed that these politicians can behave the way they do rather than concentrate on the mandate they should have honoured months, if not years, ago.  I switched the TV off as I could stand it no longer.

And all the sound and fury both within Parliament and outside reminded me of Joe South`s `Games People Play.`   His song goes back decades but is somehow still relevant to modern day British politicians.   The first few lines are:-

`Oh the games people play now

Every night and every day now

Never meaning what they say now

Never saying what they mean

And they wile away the hours

In their ivory towers

Till they're covered up with flowers

In the back of a black limousine.`

Once again it takes music to tell the truth but I wonder what lyrics will be able to describe the mayhem on the streets if the referendum result is ultimately denied and the majority are silent no more..............