To little to late

Subject: Too little, too late.

Our Achilles heel is our public school system. Time and again history has taught us that the stultified method of providing leaderships through a small gene pool of families who send their children to the same school or group of schools, expecting that in doing so promotion to power, a sort of nodding dog recognition that it's Charles turn next. Any chance of bringing in new blood is frowned upon since the determinate's  are class, not talent.

Reading historical accounts of events which greatly magnified the result one finds the people called upon to perform the duty are often woefully under equipped either in their ability to make decisions or in the knowledge of the underplaying plan, which too be fair seems to often be 'planning made up on the hoof'.

In business as in war we have trailed nations who have no barriers to power other than talent. One sees it time and again in the satire we project at the Establishment. 'Just Minister' was a classic self parody of incompetence guided by self serving bureaucratswith muddle and incompetence the end result. As a nation of cap doffing individuals who's admiration for the governing class allows them to flagellate at each general election by voting for people who clearly have no interest in them and would rather assume they were, to use that modern term, "collateral damage" in terms of the business of running the State.

And so Admiral  Sir Reginald Plunkett-Ernie-Earle-Drax is sent to negotiate with the Comintern about a Soviet alliance with Poland. How weirdly quaint to imagine a man with such a moniker could have the historical nose to see which way the wind is blowing,

Our commitment to self harm is being played out at this moment in the Brexit negotiations with a conciliatory miss mash of of hope and bravado which makes up Mrs Mays Chequers proposal. It seems we will concede on many points, some of which were the veryreasons people voted to leave in the first place, particularly the rules and limitations imposed on EU member countries in terms of trade. The convoluted hoops we are expected to crawl through to gain access to their market make leaving a farce. Not only will we be tied to provisions set by the EU but we loose any opportunity to shape or modify the provisions. 

Our realisation that the EU is prepared to play hardball with us and treat us as if we had  swept in from the Outer Mongolia  rather than a nation 20 miles offshore a fully paid up contributory member of the club for over 40 years, a member who's history has been a valued part of Europe when the barbarity of some parts of Europe threatened its existence.

Plans for this and that are now hurriedly being drawn up as contingency for failure to secure a deal but too little, too late.

Perhaps this is the epitaph which should appear on our tomb stone "Too little too late".