Destabilizing times

These are seriously destabilizing times.  Brexit alone is bad enough. But now we have civil war in the Labour Party -- a reprise of Cavaliers v. Round Heads.  Meanwhile, the Tories are undergoing their own civil war, with blonde headed cavalier BoJo being promoted as leader against opposition from Anyone But Boris. That anyone may prove to be the Home Secretary, sponsor of the Snoopers' Charter and removal from the European Court of Human Rights.

Meanwhile, I'm trying for to understand what 'democracy'  means in the context of UK politics.  Example: around 250K grass roots Labour members helped get Corbyn elected as party leader, while around 9 million people voted the now former members of the Labour shadow cabinet to parliament.  Both claim democratic legitimacy.  For the time being, the party which should be HM loyal Opposition appears to have abdicated its role in favor of domestic civil war.

And now we have the slaughter at Istanbul airport.  Turkey has been much bad mouthed recently in the referendum campaign, and its president isn't exactly a leader who commends himself to democrats, but no country should suffer the outrages that have been committed last night, presumably in the name of a movement that has no time for democracy and employs destabilization as a means of achieving its own benighted aims.