Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Brexit Looms Over the Continent

      So, Prime Minister May of the UK is making a desperate attempt to avert disaster for her fellow Brits.  As Parliament continues to promote discord and ineptitude, the EU delegates in Brussels indulge PM May by listening to her pleadings.  She begs for more time, which she might attain.  Chances of changes are dim, if at all.  The EU cannot go back whereas the Brits can do whatever they want: vote, no vote, crash out, slither out, or absolutely implode.  Then there's the Irish border question: will a "wall" be installed again across the UK/Northern Ireland border?
      The poor woman PM is probably hoping to wake up soon from this nightmare which punctuates the disturbing turns in modern politics not only in the UK, but also across the EU.  Yes, immigration is at the forefront of many arguments; yes, mixed opinions have continued to be discussed without any consensus excepting that too many refugees came into the belly of Europe without a cooordinated plan to accept and distribute the millions of asylum seekers from the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa.   The net result is rebellion against the EU's lack of policy and a lack of uniformly accepting equal numbers, placing undue burdens on Mediteranean coastal nations of Italy, Greece, and Spain.  Turkey also played a role, albeit an unseemly one fostered on the EU by the scoundrel in Ankara Recep Erdogan, a completely incompetent dictator hiding in the guise of a leader.   mr. Erdogan has arrested upwards of 75,000 Turks who somehow were thought to have been involved in the coup attempt in 2017.   Life in Turkey has suffered as a result.
     The crystal ball gazers have not been able to detect the end results of Brexit.  Who needs them?  The rest of the world knows that it does not bode well for either the UK or the EU.  It will extinguish most of the benefits of a union, even as the EU commits to carrying on.  Perhaps allowing the British pound to coexist with the Euro was not the best idea during the creation period.  At best the pound will be sharply devalued, as it should be as bankers in Europe try to balance their books with even more uncertainty.
     Good Luck, Theresa May; you need all you can get.

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