Passed our sell by date

Subject: Passed "our" sell by date.

Has Wally the Wombat finally got his comeuppance. Has Ming the Chinese Dragon finally slain the giant of mineral exploration, Rio Tinto by buying its coal division in Australia. As America discards its role as the leading economic player in Asia through its cancelling of the TPP negotiation, leaving the field open to the Chinese, do the governments of Australia and New Zealand not fear a new yellow peril as they used to fear the old one posed by Japan.

Wouldn't Australia be the perfect one way ticket destination for the Chinese as they expand not only their economy but their already huge population. Sydney already has its thriving China Town where the residents speak the lingo and could act as an information centre for Air China passengers as they step off the plane into the bewildering sunlight needing only a slight adaptation to their traditional hat to accommodate the corks. 

And don't think you New Zealander's will escape. Those hot springs and geysers would make an ideal laundry outlet, no need to fill the metre, the steam will take out all the creases, chop chop as they say Beijing.

It's hard to know where to settle these days. Immigrants dressed in sheets and driving Rolls Royce's, others lying prone on the ground at 2pm, thousands of orientals pointing cameras at us as if we were in the zoo where will it all end. Even Branson's escape project, a one way trip to Mars seems to have stumbled and we are caught in the gravity of Trump and Brexit.

There was a time when things were so so different and one could reach for ones Pith helmet to express ones superiority. People knew their place and the sun never set. The proud heritage we carried on our shoulders benignly issuing our orders with the experience of being special and having, according to the old passport, the Queens blessing. Little did we know we were a scourge, a menace, venal despots for who no apology is enough for the people they disgraced by setting up their damnable colonisation system with its straight jacket of laws and contracts not to mention modes of transport and buildings made to last. No glitz no Trump signage, just exquisite symmetry, no branding other than architectural common sense and the indefinable sense that you had seen its replica right across the world.