UK politicians abducting Brexit for own benefit

WITH THE EUROPEAN UNION agreeing to grant the United Kingdom another Brexit delay, more operations of politicians are believed to be brewing in London. Xiang Changhe, a researcher of international relations, comments in a column of Beijing Youth Daily:

Throughout the more than three years of Brexit, uncertainty has been the only certainty, which provides many with the chance to update their knowledge of British politics, allegedly a model of Western democracy.

Using a referendum to decide Brexit was in itself a risky political gamble from the very beginning. The prime minister at the time David Cameron set the stage for the confusion that followed out of his own need for his government to win more support. He was unprepared for the government being abducted by public opinion through the referendum. Which, thanks to the characteristics of the British political system, means the government has not only lost its dominance and control over the incident, but also its own fate, so that the whole nation was put on a train heading for derailment without a brake.