RE: Boris21 Dec 2019 01:01
Chris Meyers seems positively euphoric at the prospect of a Britain freed from the constraints imposed by Europe and the discipline of the single market.
Our modern day Ivanhoe like Moses is promising to lead the nation to the sunny uplands that is "The Promised Land" of milk and honey (Universal Credit) that is so attractive to migrants from all over the Middle East.
Europe is dying indeed, due to Nil birthrates making the economy so weak that they maintain 0% interest rates - where are the UK's interest rates ? when were they last increased ? and as for growth the UK considers 3% a boom when the normal rate is less than 2% for the last ten years and set to fall.
I have to say though that I am in awe of Boris's ambition as expressed over the last while and today in Parliament. He is going to do so much - no doubt he has already pencilled in the bonus that he can achieve by pushing Northern Ireland into the arms of a reluctant Irish Republic, now that he can blame on the DUP.
I give him two years before he crashes the economy and calls an election - the Brexit party spoof certainly worked - attacking Labour from two sides was a brilliant strategy, which so far does not seem to have dawned on the electorate and certainly not all those Labour voters who lent him their votes, because they voted for Brexit anyway.
I am old enough to remember when there were four Dollars to the Pound, now it's just over one. When there really was full employment all over the UK practically - when Harlesden, Cricklewood, Kentish Town, Shepherds Bush, Camden Town - well most of north and south London had large Irish populations.
Not to mention many large cities all over the UK like Birmingham,Manchester, Nottingham and Liverpool - who has replaced them especially in north and south London?
I remember the I M F being called in to bail out the country, and since an accelerating rate of businesses being sold off together with much London property, no doubt to balance the books. I hope nobody thinks that I am the harbinger of doom, because that is not what I wish for old Britannia, but it troubles me that so much employment is now in the hands of overseas investors whose manufacturing plants were created or bought over in order to access the european market.
I am afraid that it is a mistake to assume that because so many people buy EU cars, somehow the EU will buckle at the thought that imports will cease for BMW's and Merc's etc. It is equally of concern that the likes of Honda,Toyota, Nissan and the other car makers like Jaguar, Rolls, Bentley and the dear old mini will fall from the enfeebled hands of their German owners.
We will see what happens over the next year or two - as the situation both here and in Scotland takes shape - the Colleen and I may yet have to move south of the border - good job we can do so, great golf courses.
Good luck all.
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