G'Day there,
A major miscalculation by the Conservative PM James Cameron may actually help the UK to clean house. Cameron sought to quell the Euro-sceptics in his party by obtaining a manadate from the public on EU participation. But instead of overwhelming public support that silenced the critics, he discovered that the pollys from both sides and Brussels are hopelessly out of touch with the people they are supposed to represent.
A swift kick up the bum, or rather in the goolies, has highlighted the huge gulf between London and the man in the street. Well, the older, whiter, less educated and less tolerant man and woman in the street anyway.
The older generation had it hard initially but were given free education, a new, effective and efficient social safety net and steady well-paid long term employment.
The youth feel justifiably betrayed by their Mums, Dads, Aunts, Uncles and Grandparents. Born in a world of declining affordability, increased competition with the net coming apart, they look to Europe for their future. More tolerant of diversity, more entrepreneurial, creative in outlook and with finely honed social networking skills the under 40's generations demand and need globablization. It no longer takes a village to raise a family. It doesn't even take a country, it takes the whole globe.
The sooner the UK pollys understand this then the sooner it can be fixed. But it won't be this old and outdated set of white males who bring revolution and change to UK. They've had their day. Yes Cameron is hardly an old man but his thinking is staid and outmoded and he has flung himself on the rubbish heap of Victorian ideas, bleeding from his self-inflicted bullet hole in his foot.
It will take a decade or more to turn around the the ship of Victorian dogma and Etonian elitism but it has to be done. The UK stands on the bleeding edge of change, looking down into the chasm of protectionism and recession. America watches looking for clues. Its intolerant hard-right wing in turmoil and the Democrats undecided on moving left and risking another 8 years of stonewalling by the Republicans. Will anti-globalization, racial hatred and protectionism become the New Order or it be just a hand pulled back hastily from the fire?
The UK has made its mistake. All it can do now is start the salvage operation. Keep Scotland from breaking away. Forge new trading ties and attempt to lower British unemployment and mollify the masses.
America is a time bomb. Will Hillary cut the live wire or will Trump strap a nuke to it?
We live in interesting times indeed.
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