I live in a small country….nobody bothers much about it on the international scene with the exception of the U.S.A. when it wants a springboard for overthrowing other regimes in Central America, China when it wants non recognition of Taiwan and the exploitative Greens with their carbon exchange scam.
Its government is content to exploit its own people without bothering about those of other countries, doesn’t have an arms industry or even an army, runs an appalling fiscal deficit and bumps along from month to month and hand to mouth.
After life in two European countries trying to pretend that they are still world powers it is quite relaxing.
Had I still been living in the U.K. I would have voted to leave the E.U.: I hadn’t wanted to enter the original free trade area either and nothing since – not even the vestigial aid of European legislation to the protection of workers in the U.K. under Thatcher – has made me change my mind.
Twenty years in France reinforced my views…
The British system in which I had grown up had little in common with that of France.
We might have had a common heritage in the Western Church, but that was about all…
Napoleon had taken his authoritarian regime all over the continent and there its legacy stayed…keep your mouth shut, keep your head down and do as you are told.
Unless you are rich.
And this is the regime which has come to the U.K. with its accession to the pan European regime.
The possession of money – by whatever means – gives immunity not only from the law,but from moral responsibility.
When I consider that we used to think Reginald Maudling and John Poulson as the epitome of corruption the mind boggles: today we have E.U. accounts that can never be signed off…commissioners paying their dentists with E.U. jobs…and the Common Agricultural Policy siphoning money to the big producers to the detriment of the family farms in order to subsidise the agroalimentary industry.
Next time you buy a pot of Danone yogurt seek the taste of corruption within.
The U.K.has, to the shock of its masters, voted to leave the E.U.
This is represented as a disaster.
To me, it seems like an opportunity.
A chance for the U.K. to become a small country.
The imperial dream is long gone: could not the U.K. do without being an obedient satellite of the U.S.A., throwing the children of its young into wars which assist only foreign corporations?
Could not the U.K. revive the values of the post war settlement in order to found a future in which young people do not have to bankrupt themselves while obtaining an inferior education?
Could the U.K.not rediscover its talents without the limitation of an exterior straitjacket of rules and regulations?
And, most of all, could the U.K.not become a force for peace in the world?
The Venomous Bead 