Parliament's Free Rider Problem

One of the few things that everyone now seems to agree on is that the record of our politicians in the Brexit process has been spectacularly useless.  They seem to have taken total insincerity as the acme of political wisdom, to an extent that I think has created a kind of free rider problem.  No one is now prepared to sign up to positions or be bound by their previous words.  Even the Tory ministers who negotiated the proposed Withdrawal Agreement refuse to accept any responsibility for it.  We still have MPs refusing to recognise that the UK is negotiating the EU, or that there are inherent choices that have to be made (e.g. an open Irish border vs a customs union).

I hope that whenever this disastrous episode is over there will be an enquiry as there was over some of our other foreign policy disasters such as the Iraq and Falkland wars.