Minding our own business has its attractions

Subject: Minding our own business has its attractions.

I am currently struck by the massive, inter-connective web of business and national affairs over which we have little or no control, control relinquished as we reclined for 40 years in a comfortable club in which the committee ran the clubs affairs whilst we, the members sat at the bar dreaming of our past achievements, willing to allow the processing of all future affairs to go on behind closed doors.
If it were acceptable for 40 years, why now the need for change. Put simply, "Because the people wish it".
That phrase "the people" is a misnomer since the voter has become, in the 40 years of European tutelage, a benign repository of media misinformation. Where from the torrid headlines of the leader writers blurb and the editorial commentary, (these purveyors of self interest) have fed the electorate a steady gruel of an anti EU information. Given the chance to vote is it any wonder that the Sun, Daily Mail, Daily Express readership, by far the greatest in number of newspapers bought, placed their cross to pull out of the Union. 

As did I, you no doubt hasten to remind me but for different reasons. My reasons were mainly reasons of unaccountably especially as regards the German handling of Greek debt crisis.

It seemed to me that the jackboot of the Fourth Reich, under the leadership of the Finance Minister Herr Schauble,  deliberately squashed and ran riot over the people of Greece punishing them en mass for accepting the titivating financial prospect Goldman Sachs contrived to offer the German Banks, a false prospectus of the Greek financial position on applying to join the EU. This dreadful, deceitful financially corrupt bank who's place-men sit at the helm of so many national institutions in the West, including our own, The Governor of the Bank of England, have blood on their hands. 

The Germans, once out foxed were in no mood to consider the population as a whole but have relentlessly  punished, not the instigators of the financial charade, (they have shifted their money out long ago) but the innocent ordinary man and women in the street, people for whom the German financial machine had no mercy. Perhaps it goes too far to equate the German banks and their financial governance with the inhuman acts of the Third Reich but the lack of any sort of empathy seemed to me to be  contingent with a 'totalitarian force' and for that reason I wanted out.
It seems as if my faint hearted tolerance for fair play towards the Greeks has sown a more impoverished future for my own people as we unravel the complexities of living all this time with grandma. 

The world is no longer a nationally based free trade area but a collection of powerful financial units which dictate, through the global market what the nation state does. 

Having relinquished much of our individual industrial know how, having modified our population to be consumers rather than producers. Having signaled to the world we back the grocer above the industrialist, we are bound to take a thrashing when we start to compete at the margins. 

Our politicians are as usual mendacious prevaricators when it comes to telling the truth. They shift and happily lie about anything and everything if it politically suites them and sadly we are in their hands when it comes to negotiating the deal and the truth of the matter is lost under the bluster of political cant.

Our future will not, I fear resemble our past but whether this is a bad thing, only time will tell. Influence comes at a cost, even the Americans are beginning to balk at the expense of being a world leader. Small nations such as the Scandinavian group, the antipodeans, Australia and New Zealand in fact most nations who stay and mind their own business seem happily prosperous. Minding our own business has its attractions.