Whatever the price of the Johnson Brexit, it’s a price worth paying. Because, as Lord Frost revealed to Anand Menon, there’s one super-convincing benefit … 👇
A young sporting genius of Chinese & Romanian immigrant background is about to become the first British citizen in over 40 years to play in a women’s tennis Grand Slam final. /1.
Meanwhile, back in Britain, due to an insane policy no one wants any longer to admit being responsible for, all the Romanian and other truck drivers from the 500 million population continent which used to be the UK’s domestic market, … /2.
… for goods, services, people and capital, have quite understandably decided they’d rather stay as far away as possible from the 67 million population mess which badly needs them. Permanent food shortages now predicted.
The politics & geopolitics of Mary Jane - a tweeted treatise
A.A. Milne knew a thing or two about children & adult failings. And was the creator of political metaphors. Here, Mary Jane & her dinner.
If you have ten minutes & a hot brew (or rice pudding), settle in.
A 🧵. /1.
Mary Jane was throwing a tantrum. The grown-ups couldn’t understand why. She’d been given lovely rice pudding. Children always adore rice pudding. How could Mary Jane be unhappy? So (far more wittily & lyrically) goes A.A. Milne’s whole poem. /2.
The solution stares the reader in the face. How we laugh at the adults, so uncomprehending of their failure to understand their own, obvious error.
How uncomfortable we (or some of us, at least) feel, recognising the description of inadequacies we share. /3.
You’ve heard of the Irish Trilemma. Solution? Ditch the Johnson Brexit.
Now it’s the Great British Trilemma:
A Johnson Brexit
B Spending
C Low inflation
A+B = rocketing inflation
A+C = austerity & recession
B+C = ditch the Johnson Brexit /1.
The Johnson Brexit (A), dislocates the UK from a major portion of its supply chains, labour force, goods & services market, research collaboration & more, shredding UK productive resources & capacity. /2.
As a result, scope for the government spending (B) required for the country to prosper & recover, without inflation running out of control, is constrained. Potentially severely. /3.
.@TomTugendhat’s concerns are easy to understand & widely shared
But, President Biden & his team have the unenviable, existentially vital task (for the US, all its allies & the world at large) of leading a global order confronted by unprecedented challenges: /2.
▪️world environmental & health crisis;
▪️political, economic & security destabilisation, arising from systemic geopolitical rivalry with Xi’s CCP-led China, & serious disruptive potential from Putin’s KGB-captured Russia; /3.