Subject: Making up our mind.
It's a bit like having a fever. One minute the temperature is up and the next down, one moment we are quite sickly the next we are confident to come out of the gloom.
I'm talking once again of Brexit and the ramifications of our leaving instead of staying.
President Trumps pronouncement that everything is on the table when we come to seeking a deal with America, painted in stark relief, what the ramifications of leaving the EU and joining the likes of America as a trading partner clearly are.
Our gripe with the EU is their over riding incursion into national decision making and the power of the EU Commission to make decisions on our behalf was echoed by President Trumps firm belief that, not only was everything on the table but we must understand he only has our best interests at heart. Goldilocks and the big bad wolf springs to mind. We often think that our beliefs and interest are mirrored by the Yanks, simple because of a common language. In fact we are further away from their concepts of so many things.
Health Care, their judicial system of incarceration, gun control, racial intolerance, the list goes on. In Europe even allowing for the disparity in culture and nationhood the norms in European society are much more like ours than ours is to the Americans.
We talk about the lack of accountability in the EU political system but the system of patronage and lobbying which goes on in Congress, even allowing for the Constitution, twists the political system in a way to make it unrecognisable to us living in Europe.
The tragedy which unfettered capitalism brings to the people who are less than successful is mirrored in their president who's bully boy tactics seen across the globe must make us fear becoming reliant on the crumbs which might fall from his table.
It's a bit like having a fever. One minute the temperature is up and the next down, one moment we are quite sickly the next we are confident to come out of the gloom.
I'm talking once again of Brexit and the ramifications of our leaving instead of staying.
President Trumps pronouncement that everything is on the table when we come to seeking a deal with America, painted in stark relief, what the ramifications of leaving the EU and joining the likes of America as a trading partner clearly are.
Our gripe with the EU is their over riding incursion into national decision making and the power of the EU Commission to make decisions on our behalf was echoed by President Trumps firm belief that, not only was everything on the table but we must understand he only has our best interests at heart. Goldilocks and the big bad wolf springs to mind. We often think that our beliefs and interest are mirrored by the Yanks, simple because of a common language. In fact we are further away from their concepts of so many things.
Health Care, their judicial system of incarceration, gun control, racial intolerance, the list goes on. In Europe even allowing for the disparity in culture and nationhood the norms in European society are much more like ours than ours is to the Americans.
We talk about the lack of accountability in the EU political system but the system of patronage and lobbying which goes on in Congress, even allowing for the Constitution, twists the political system in a way to make it unrecognisable to us living in Europe.
The tragedy which unfettered capitalism brings to the people who are less than successful is mirrored in their president who's bully boy tactics seen across the globe must make us fear becoming reliant on the crumbs which might fall from his table.
Chlorinated chicken, Monsanto agriculture, higher prices for our drugs to keep the American pharmaceutical industry happy, the privatisation of the NHS, all these objectionable aspects to his trade deal will make our worries about the links with Europe seem inconsequential. Our press never reveal the down side of the neoliberal capitalistic
laissez-faire economy which controls the USA. They prefer to ridicule the rules which insist on standards across the EU, opting rather for the no standard, market orientated decision making which represents the pork belly lobbying for government contracts in America.
Give me Europe any time. We are too small economically or numerically to be a force worth listening to, so we better chose well when we finally do.
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