The United Kingdom has a problem: the extreme racist vote of Brexit is still holding its trade back at a time when trade is seen as the only way to dig itself out of the hole privatisation has placed it in. Investment has not been as big as it needed to be from the private…
Tag: Brexit
Broken
The general public as evinced by the news reports here in the UK are of a mind that the country is broken. I heard one man say even in Thatcher’s day when the country was riven with discontent the fabric of society itself was not as broken. Another said we are treating pensioners very badly…
What To Do with the 30%
After Brexit and Trump last time round my friend told me he thought there were about 30% of people in the UK and US that were, to put it mildly, susceptible to these nationalistic, tub-thumping men on the make. Well, ok he called them ‘;thick’ but what they actually are is hurt and / or…
Figures are Interesting
The Office of National Statistics looked at the GDP of the UK the year before Brexit and surmised that the actual GDP of the country afterwards was 5% lower of £31 thousand million (31 billion for those who count like the Americans) in lost investment and growth within the economy. The fiscal black hole Hunt…
Rejoin
Today I was in London on the first protest march since I was in my 20s. It was the rejoin the EU march to Parliament Square. For some reason my right leg hurt like hell and I was almost limping but I did the march. I didn’t stay for the speeches – I have my…
A Little Light Relief
Sitting at work today – it was a slow day – I scanned the news sections at around 1pm and there I was delighted to see the resignation of the shortest span of Priministerial leadership in British history. Since when I have heard Conservatives talk about grown-up. mature government and even whispering bring Boris back….
Dash to the Bottom
The markets are treating the UK as she wanted to be treated in 2016 under the Conservative party. A lone country unleashed from the European Union, standing on her own two nineteenth century feet and she has found she cannot hack-it. There is also something else more profound than the financial outcome of Brexit. They…
My Country is Broken
Most are but in 2016 every racist in the UK voted to leave the European Union. Enough people joined with them to give them a slim majority of those who voted. They assisted in the country doing what every racist in its borders wanted it to do. In the lead up to this hideous fact…