Look, I don’t know if what I write
has any worth or if it will have an impact on anyone or inspire you, but I do
know that it makes me feel good to try and make sense of the world and this is
the way in which I do it.
At the moment we have just gone
through one of the most life changing events in history, we have as a country
for better or worse voted to leave the EU, something we have been part of for
over forty years and, as such, we are now in unknown waters.
In the forty plus years since joining
the EU which has taken on many forms and names, the world has changed
significantly. Chances are that if you were alive you would have mixed emotions
at Great Britain entering into a partnership with other countries in Europe, at
least one of who wished for our demise only a few short years earlier. We didn’t
have the internet and quite possibly only two TV Channels. You were lucky to
have a phone in the house and superstores like Tesco and Asda had not even been
thought of. The world was still a very innocent place for many of us. WWll was
in the past Vietnam was something that Americans were involved in and not us, and Woodstock was something we wished we had all attended. Our leaders however
wanted more and with that notion took us into the Common Market.
In forty years the world has changed
beyond recognition. The internet is immediate and an intrusion at times, we
walk around with a phone stuck to our hand at all times and there are 100s of
TV channels (Still with little of value on them) There are at any given time a
dozen wars going on and we have seen the horror of September 11th and
July 7th There is not a day goes by when someone gets shot in
America at the hand of a maniac in a country more committed to being right than
successful about gun control. In one fell swoop we are no longer part of the EU, we no longer have a real leader of the country and most of the opposition party
are jumping ship. In a time when we need leadership the most it’s a scarce
commodity. We are being represented by leaders who look like buffoons and while
the world waits to see what happens to us, I suggest that the leadership we
desire might need to come from out of own sense of logic and our own moral compass.
Already we have seen the signs of bigotry and blame, as though immigrants who work as dishwashers and bus drivers are stealing our jobs? Be real, I do not see a line of white British people lining up to take their places.
While this may be a great opportunity for Great Britain it may also be a time of great challenge for many also. We must be thoughtful and patient, look, all this money, the £350 million we are supposed to get now that we don't need to pay it to the EU, I guarantee our Government will find a more creative way to use it. Once gone we will never get it back. I seem to remember that VAT was a stop gap solution andante in, well you know the rest.
