Independence Day in the United Kingdom? Will Britain Become Great Again? Putting in a word for the value of independents and independent-thinking

As a mini-post sandwiched within my main brexit blogposts, on both this blogsite and my other, original one, i.e. http://nuffsaid:consideryourself-frombothsidesnow.blogspot.co.nz/ (or .com/), how about this for a novel idea? True, genuine independence of thought/attitude, conviction, expression and action is ever a sign of strength, never of weakness. Except perhaps in toddlers still going through potty training and the like. Or maybe in newly-minted adolescents being oppositional towards their parents for the sheer sake of it.

And so this is simply to place upon the record my unavoidable disdain and utter contempt for those so-called political pundits and their media fellow-travellers especially who have heartily enjoyed the recent spectacle of Boris Johnson and David Cameron et al (especially in the British Conservative Party) battling it out tooth and nail, hammer and tongs, in the public domain over the long-running Brexit debate and finally arrived referendum. Petty partisanship aside - which such commentators evince so easily it's much like kiddies drooling over anticipated ice-cream cones and chocolate chippies - but if such really believe, as they invariably profess in the very next breath, in the value of participatory democracy and the need to have intelligent, informed public debate upon important matters, then they should surely applaud such a spectacle. Yes, they may secretly hate and despise 'the Tories' and find the sight of them 'tearing each other to shreds' not only less than edifying but moreover a bit of a hoot to boot, but have they ever stopped to consider the following?

Isn't it really rather a refreshing contrast, especially compared to New Zealand in particular, to see the ruling government isn't simply crammed and stuffed full of yes-men and yes-women, who ever and always take their cues from the man (or less frequently, woman) at the top? Who actually display real independence of mind and outlook and are not so highly insecure that to defend the holy grail of 'unity at all costs' they constantly paper over any real or simply perceived differences? Or does God's Own by contrast have a bunch of John Key clones and/or robots rather than real men and women in our corridors of power?

If such had their way we and our world never would have seen the likes of Sir Winston Churchill bestride the corridors and ultimately annals of history, and I for one believe we'd have a far poorer world as a result. No, not materially poorer - and Mr Cameron (and Mr Key), there really are some things money cannot buy, and that matter a heckuva lot more than healthy finances, such as a healthy and noble independence of spirit and life - but I wager to guess the once great and glorious nation of Britain (and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland) might have suffered a whole lot more from Hitler and his Nazis had Mr Churchill not been there at the time. Yep, true independence is a virtue and not a vice.