Gales are imminent

Subject: Gales are imminent 

Today is the day that Britain leaves the European Union.
In the EU Parliament, UK based MEPs from all persuasions stood up to comment on the withdrawal, many of them were emotional as their final day in the European Parliament played out. Their European colleagues were largely full of regret although some of them congratulated the UK from having escaped the clutches of this economic and now political monolith.

Earlier we witnessed the dreadful and boorish display from the Brexit Party, especially Nigel Farage with their churlish comments and jingoistic flag waving. It represented all that is unhealthy in the English character, a self centred, narcissistic view, engendered in part by an ethos of superiority which is generated in our leaders and spokes persons by our public school system which also filters down to the masses by the almost daily propaganda put out by the news papers of which they own.
Looking and listening to the MEPs from across the political spectrum each representing the variations  in historical experience which the individual nations have experienced since the turn of the 20th century one was struck, as I always am by the ability to debate issues that divide them instead of taking up arms and as in the past, killing each other. The members are the representatives of very different societies from our own, people who have born the brunt of occupation and who mainly, for political reasons don’t always see eye to eye, not even with each other, never mind their neighbours and yet each MEP stands up and behaves in a civilised manner but not us.
In every class of school children there are the ones who sit at the back and snigger the worst get excluded. It's usually to put their behaviour down to conditions at home, poor parenting and the environment they grow up in. We tend these days to give them some slack although there is another school of thought that doing two years national service where discipline is rigorously enforced, would be a better plan.
The fools on the Brexit benches displayed an uncouth lack of respect for everyone.
I was embarrassed to be English at that moment and equally saddened to hear the comments from people interviewed in the streets, people who have been turned inside out by the drip drip of anti EU propaganda which has continue from certain powerful quarters since the moment we joined.
On the stroke of 11 o’clock last night we officially left and the crowds in the streets cheered and waved flags as if we had been victorious at war.
Little do they realise the war is only just starting !