Things seem to be getting much worse across Western Europe. The EU and the UK appear to be wedged into terminal decline. I have said this before, but things have gotten much worse over the past week.
For the future of the world, of course, things are getting better, but Western Europe is facing in the wrong direction. And this is not a matter of preferring one outlook to another; it is a matter of common sense.
Let me start by reminding you of what governments are supposed to do.
On a simplistic level they exist to act for and on behalf of the people they purport to represent. One has to take on board that most people aren’t very bright and dont know or understand what is going on in the world, so even if they were super smart they wouldn’t be in a position to guide things along.
But let us set that aside for the moment and look at absolute certainties.
A government is there to make certain that a country is in the best position to survive. That can be divided into three or four basic categories. Let’s have a look at all of them and work out how well certain governments are achieving what they are in power precisely to achieve.
First, a government is there to try and secure the safety and wellbeing of its inhabitants. The best way to do that is clearly to be on friendly relations with one’s neighbours. Good grief, the UK has a navy, once the best in the world. These days it cant even protect Southern England from unarmed invaders in rowing boats in the Channel. In other words, Britain is wide open to invasion, and that invasion is currently taking place with no response at all. The UK is, quite frankly, a walkover, and in terms of a safe place is a laughing stock.
On the other hand the government threatens Russia, the mightiest military country on the planet. Just sit down and think for a minute how ridiculous that must seem in Moscow. Once upon a time the UK was known as Great Britain, it is known these days as Little England, and militarily is a laughing stock. Even its nuclear weapons are under US control.
Some would say a more important issue for a government is to ensure some form of prosperity. That means security of food, and in a modern world, security of energy. The UK has neither, nor has Western Europe. The UK relies for 80% of its agricultural products, both food stuff and machinery and fertilisers from abroad, formerly mainly Russia. It also used to rely on the vast majority of its energy from Russia and France.
Would a sane government therefore pick a fight with a formerly friendly neighbour that was formerly in this position?
I can only assume the UK is already run by enemies, or lunatics.
So where are we now?
Every year this century EU trade with the rest of the world has decreased. BRICS countries in a similar period have increased their economic clout by 85%. Those figures are somewhat stark. Ignoring the consequences of those figures is a mistake.
The obvious conclusion is that Western Europe is heading down while other parts of the world are heading up. If you live anywhere is Europe, you’re heading in the wrong direction. That does’t feel good to me.
The UK is in an even worse position than the rest of Europe. The financial centre of the world used to be London. That is no longer the case. The London bullion centre is rapidly fading as the gold centre of the world moves east. The UK’s gold reserves are close to pointless, while the real gold is in the East. Not only that but the London Metals Exchange has moved to China. And the insurance system is in a precarious state with Lloyds of London being sidelined.
I dont know what the current figures are, but at the turn of the century the UK was supported by the fact that London was the financial centre of the world. 70% of the UK’s foreign earnings came from that one source. I have to ask what will the UK look like financially speaking in a few years time when that source of income has vanished. The most important question will be, how does the country pay for the food its burgeoning population requires? It wont have the foreign currency reserves to do so.
Remember those earlier figures? 80% of the country is dependent upon imports for its daily food, and its energy. In short, the country is going to collapse, unable to even feed itself.
With all of the above in mind I have to ask if there is anyone minding the shop these days?
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