I agree with Michael Moor but regardless of whether Trump finds a way to slough off the
responsibility he never contemplated, the damage is done.
The Leave campaigners spewed out acid hyperbole, deliberate
lies, vitriol, bigotry and xenophobia during the UK referendum campaign. Trump
made the kinds of outrageous statements a psychotic toddler with developmental
problems tripping on diesel fumes might make. Like the Leave campaigners, Trump
didn’t think he’d have to follow up. He thought he could stir the shit and walk
away. But if Brexit means Brexit thenTrump means Trump.
Unfortunately, even if he were to step away, that doesn’t
mean the toxic Trump smog will clear. Like nuclear fallout, sometimes the after
effects can be as problematic as the immediate disaster.
Here in the UK, the political establishment
– and a proportion of the public – believe they are in control of the Brexit process. They
think that we are in a period of decision and sorting out strategy – albeit one
that should have taken place BEFORE the referendum. What they don’t seem to
understand is that the boat has sailed, the horse has bolted, the tide has gone
out, yada yada yada. And it happened the day after the referendum when the
results hit with the devastation of a fractured nuclear facility.
The government continue selling Britain off to the highest
bidder while the Leave campaign crow about reclaiming borders! The NHS creaks
and groans under the weight of overpriced drugs, depressed citizens and the
lack of foreign doctors and nurses on which it has always relied. Meanwhile, the
bickering and arguing over minute detail (see last week’s blog) is so much
chicken squawking after the fox has cleared the hen house. (Yes – you know how
my analogies get tangled when I am upset).
In the last few days Trump did a rush job to try to save an air conditioning factory because he’d forgotten he’d promised that
several times during his campaign. But a. most of the jobs were lost b. the
government is now in hock for huge tax breaks for this firm which will have
every other greedy corporation in America claiming they too are leaving so they
can suck upTrump tax treats.
Here in the UK it is the same. Tata steel has been ‘saved’.
(NB the remnants of the steel industry in Britain were screwed by the Tory
government when it vetoed EU attempted protection against Chinese
overproduction. Oh, the irony). But now the skeletal industry is ‘saved’ partly by
ditching pension security for the remaining workforce. Recently a car firm in
Sunderland was ‘reassured’ by May’s government that they would be ok if they
stayed in the UK!!! I’d hazard a guess that this just means more unsustainable
public funding diverted to private companies.
But the main damage to Britain and the United States of
America, is in world standing. The wounds that won’t be healed any time soon
are kudos and credibility. It’s like that guy at school who everyone grudgingly
admired – albeit that they may not have liked him. Then he was photographed in
a gutter covered in his own vomit with his ironed jeans round his ankles and his beer
gut hanging over his stained women's panties.
Self-destruct personified did play out slightly
differently on each side of the pond.
Think of Trump as the brain tumour – the single malignant
growth that will nevertheless cause irreparable damage to the body of America.
Britain suffered the sporadic reoccurring, sometimes hidden, malignant growths
in multiple organs.
It will be a long long time before anyone takes Britain or
America seriously again. And many countries around the globe that have been
held in check by the idea of the
greatness of the UK and the impenetrability of the US will have seen that the bloated
stupid spiteful old Emperor is not wearing any clothes…
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