Blog 2023 Malcolm Blair-Robinson

It was a massive act of poor judgment for Trump to retweet the fake videos of the far right group Britain First. First and foremost this organisation is one of which no country in its right mind could be proud. So much has been said of it that this blog has nothing more to add. But most of all because this organisation is British, not American, and this kind of comment is fine if the President wants to encourage hate and division in his own country, but bang out of order by every diplomatic rule in the book, for him to encourage it in ours. There is universal outrage and condemnation all across the country and from all political parties.

Trump is supposed to be Britain’s closest ally. Yet his vanity is so pricked by May’s restrained criticism of him for his blunder that he compounds it with an impertinent follow up Tweet offering her gratuitous advice of how to lead her country. May has again repeated her criticism, whilst reminding everyone that there is more to America than Trump. This is the problem.

After a refreshingly different beginning his presidency is turning out to be plain awful. Most Americans agree. His approval ratings are lower than ever. This is not because of his tweets, although they do not help. It is because he looks like a windbag and self publicist in love with himself who cannot deliver. Time will tell us whether that harsh assessment is right or not. Time, with this type of person, never fails to deliver its verdict.

We watch and wait.

As readers know this Blog predicted a Trump win and has refrained from the wholesale condemnation of this presidency by commentators from the liberal left, with which it usually identifies. When I think he is on the right track I support him. But this time he has entirely left the rails of acceptability. Of course it is deeply shocking that he admires the extremist propaganda of a political organisation widely regarded as repugnant by the vast majority of our country.

But what is wholly absurd is the idea that he should engage overtly in the domestic politics of an ally. Or put another way if Theresa May, in her capacity of UK Prime Minister, were to re-tweet inflammatory messages from leftist organisations in the US opposed to Trump, the White House, with justification, would be outraged.

It is these sort of impetuous blunders that do more to undermine the Trump presidency than any issues of policy. Which makes them all the more inexplicable.

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Lise Bauer is born in Africa in 1906, brought to England by her parents from where she is expelled with them in 1914, because her father is an East Prussian. They settle in America and become Americans, but return to Europe in the 1920’s. Here Lise is involved in the rise of the Nazi party, marries one of Hitler’s closest associates and later has a relationship with Hitler himself, before divorcing her husband and marrying an English friend of Hitler’s deputy, Rudolf Hess. She settles again in England with the consent of the security services and she and her husband establish a cell to act as a secret communication channel between Hitler and Churchill at the critical period of WWII. 
The novel offers a new view of Hitler’s sexual relationships, a plot to overthrow Churchill and the flight to Scotland by Rudolf Hess. Using historical characters often portrayed in a new light, this fictional account challenges the accepted view of recorded history. It leaves readers wondering why they were they never told about the double lives and events shrouded in secrecy.

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There is a big row going on between the government and parliament about the proper disclosure of apparently embarrassing information revealed in a process of assessing the impact of Brexit on 50 sectors of the economy. Embarrassing because it reveals just how damaging this foolhardy adventure will prove to be to the lives of ordinary people. There is another interpretation for the lack of output; there is none because no proper survey was carried out.

Everywhere outside Whitehall it is becoming quite clear that the promoters of Brexit had little idea of the detailed consequences of their ambition nor the vast legal and administrative headache which would result. That in turn leads to costs they had never imagined. What this proves is that we are caught in a national emergency in which it is no longer a matter of in or out, but of survival without having to go through an economic trauma greater than that suffered through cost of fighting WWII. That poses the question, asked with increasing frequency both here and in the EU, do we have to do this?

Defenders of this folly claim there is a mandate from the British people which must be fulfilled. That is nonsense. Had the facts been fairly put to the electorate by both sides, but in particular by Leave with its wild claims and promises, there is absolutely no doubt that while a sizable minority would have stayed with Brexit, the majority would have gone for Remain. The mandate is entirely blown. What is required now is common sense upholding the national interest. That means asking for the infamous Article 50 letter to be returned. Then all of the EU, including the UK, can relax and get on with its collective day.

My father was a staunch supporter of King Edward VIII and Mrs. Simpson. He believed an American Queen would be the best thing that could happen to GB in the troubled 1930s. But it was not to be because she was divorced. So had my father been alive today (he would be 124) he would have rejoiced at today’s news that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are to marry. All those prejudices of the past are cast aside and the happy couple will be the cutting edge of the Royal modernisation, which is constantly in force, but which under the influence of Princes William and Harry is gathering greater momentum. This Blog joins the whole country in wishing them every happiness. Even famous republicans are joining in.

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The government will today publish its much trumpeted Industrial Strategy. It is desperately needed because of Brexit, whatever the outcome. Just as any country opting to go to war with a clapped out military is heading for defeat, so one about to embark on the biggest legal, administrative and economic re-positioning in its history, without the foundation of a vibrant and growing economy, is heading into at best decline and at worst disaster.

Having heard a bit of chitchat on the media about what is coming from those who know and some who clearly don’t, it seems a good idea to restate this Blog’s view of what is required. This is a massive reboot of the economy, transforming it from asset inflation to new wealth creation. That will require dynamic quantitative easing by the Treasury to fund a huge investment programme in leading edge technology, R& D, infrastructure, energy and communications, new industrial development and a massive skills upgrade of the workforce. The amount of government investment over five years of this new money, must equal the sum pumped into the financial sector by the Bank of England. That is £435 billion. Anything less will not be enough to do the job properly.

If it is done properly it will indeed achieve the great economic leap forward about which politicians have talked for so long, but proved unable to deliver. If the new strategy is no more than a bit of this and that, lofty rhetoric and scarce money, then it is backwards all the way for keeps. Because the failure of the original Osborne blueprint to balance the books by 2015 and set the economy growing on a foundation of new wealth creation (remember the March of the makers?) rather than asset inflation, has trapped the economy in a spiral of rising debt and falling living standards with austerity as a way of life.  We are on the very threshold of  a condition of economic decline which is chronic.

Chronic conditions are incurable. The last time we took ourselves to the brink, we recovered by joining the Common Market. Brexiteers believe this time we will recover by reversing the process and leaving the EU. The snag is that they are unable to tell us, specifically, how.

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