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Brexit

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Here we go again. Another step backwards regarding our position about staying or leaving the EU. As someone who voted out for reasons that I considered important to me and hopefully for my children and grandchildren, I had hoped by now that a solid foundation for leaving had been laid out and that the rest of the population would have come round to the idea that brexit meant exactly that. Now from nowhere comes a small group of people who seem to me to be pontificating about how they are doing this because they believe that parliament should have a say in what happens. I have no proof of their actual intentions as to why they have thrown this spanner in the works but my gut instinct is to assume that somewhere down the line their bank balances and business dealings are what is actually driving their fervour. There has been talk of Theresa May calling a snap election if the Supreme Court agrees with the latest ruling and personally I think that may be the best way to go and get it sorted once and for all. Our standing in the world regarding our attempt to get back our freedom has no doubt become something of a joke in many parts of the world. As one of the oldest democracies in the world it saddens me to see what a mess this and previous governments have created. Hopefully it will all come to a satisfactory conclusion in the end and we as a country can get back to some normality but I fear there will be a bit of blood letting before that happens.

The Red, the White(s) and the Blue…

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Just recently my attention, after the distraction of our own Brexit, turned to the Presidential elections in the US – now I’ve shown interest in the past but this time around it’s become an obsession in comparison.
Perhaps  the presence of Donald Trump and then even more the possible eventuality of him getting the Republican candidate ticket (which has now become a reality) prompted me to observe the political circus for far longer and deeper than ever previously.

I had to educate myself a little initially to familiarise my self with the different system and jargon and electoral process, the biggest difference being the protracted nature of the whole shebang and then the almost unnatural and chromatic shock of red signifying right of centre and blue signifying left of centre politics.

From my not fully informed UK perspective Hillary Clinton appeared (to moi) to be the natural and only option for President especially after observing the antics and listening to the rhetoric of Donald Trump.. but apparently to the US electorate it wasn’t and isn’t as clear cut as my cursory appraisal

So started my in depth look at the whole situation and as to why Hillary Clinton as a career and cabinet politician seemed so unpopular (even hated) and as to why Donald Trump as a billionaire playboy boom and bust business man was even on the electoral radar.

I came to the conclusion that the generic USA populace must be suffering (but much worse) from the similar disenfranchised feeling that the generic UK populace were experiencing and expressing protest to in the UK June Brexit referendum.

I’m not comparing the two cases directly of course as being in a different state of the USA can and must feel for some like being in a different nation altogether given the geographical scale and the socio-religious, industrial and gun-toting cultural diversities involved.

I still arrived at the same outcome that Hillary Clinton is the ‘no brainer’ choice of presidential candidate but I can also see why Trump garners blind support from those same resolutely disenfranchised if sadly deluded citizens despite his sexist bigotry and his simplistic ‘we’ll just  make it happen’ declarations.

Roll on Nov 8th so it’ll all be over or it’ll be the start of it all being over for the planet.

 

Gone to the dogs

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For what seems months and months I have read and listened to the all the claims and counter claims regarding what I now believe is the totally unnecessary referendum over whether or not we should leave the EU.
The whole issue I feel has dragged this once proud and independent country to a low point in its history.
The issue has I feel been rushed and in their haste to get it resolved I feel that the government has created a lethargic population many of whom are so fed up with the half truths and unsubstantiated facts that they will probably not bother to vote.
This I feel will result in a very close result one way or the other and it is entirely possible that it will set one side against the other.
It is a fact that the whole structure of the EU is under severe strain with behind the scenes power struggles and the ever present failure of the Euro .
If I am to be honest I really do not care whether or not we leave this fractured organisation because I am of an age when life is lived by the day – but having said that I do care about my children and grandchildren who sadly are the people who will have to clear up the mess we are intent on leaving.
When I think of all those brave souls who put their lives on the line to give this country it’s freedom from tyranny, I am convinced that had they a voice they would say “what a waste of time that was, the bloody country’s going to the dogs”.
Rant over. Have a nice day. 😊