Bolton UK Visit: Is This A Pivotal Moment?

Yes it is. And it may not be a bad thing. First we have to look at the Brexit situation, now polarised between only two realistic options. A No Deal Brexit, or recalling Article 50. The quagmire in the middle, with all its threads, nuances and grandstanders, has been trampled out of realistic existence. Negotiating a sensible Brexit that protects jobs and the economy and a global independent Britain freewheeling across the world as an independent trading and political power, are concepts realistic in a country where wise consensus prevails, but for the birds in the polarised UK in the here and now.  Article 50 Recall will trigger the destruction of the Tory party for ever and make the country bitter and polarised. A hard Brexit will cause unpredictable damage at every level of national life and break up the Union.

But now there is a third option and it is where we are headed. It is where we always end up after national trauma. The United States. In other words if we detach from Europe it it now clear that we will re-connect with the US. Another post will explain how, but the principle is that we will be pivot back to our other family at a time when a nationalist and transactional US government, which has managed to upset almost all its allies and is fast running out of respectable friends, suddenly sees an opportunity to embrace its old and very dear cousin.

Together upon the world economic, political, scientific and military stage, the sum of the whole is greater than the individual parts. There is nothing else in the world to match it. Not even close.

Yes it will be Brexit. But it will not be swashbuckling freedom.