• I WAS only a child at that time but I do remember the run-up to World War II, how the disenfranchised working class rose up (as they are now in Germany, France and the United Kingdom, with the rise of the far-right) against the merchants and traders, and voted Hitler in.

Now, similarly, the rise of the American workers made “out-of-work” as factories closed because it paid the merchants and traders to send work abroad. What did they do? They voted in Donald Trump!

I don’t like power blocs; too many people are left out and different ideologies confronting each other in power blocs are much more of a danger in my opinion.

People are territorial, even as their parents become more idealistic and want to work together, the next generation of youth, are again territorial, as we see right down to our streets.

History is repeating itself. It didn’t work in that huge power block, the USSR. The many different countries it comprised have become again independent.

As an independent country, after a short-term muddle we will once again make trade and progress with the whole world – if a bit more slowly.

SI EVERITT
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