All along I\u00a0felt a Trump victory was on the cards because I\u00a0saw the connection to Brexit and Corbyn. People across the western capitalist system are angry because it has favoured the minority at the expense of the majority. Given a chance to vote against the political, ruling and financial establishments they will do so. But I\u00a0lacked the courage and although regular visitors to this blog will know that I\u00a0dropped hints, I did not commit. Perhaps I\u00a0should have had the courage of my instinct; conviction would be too strong a word.<\/p>\n
The Trump victory is a signal that real and profound change is coming. Exactly what that will be is not yet defined, but \u00a0Globalization is in for, at the very least, a significant tweak.\u00a0It is too early to say more than that. There is good news.\u00a0As we in the UK flounder ever deeper in a Brexit quagmire, we may discover to our surprise, an unlikely \u00a0friend who offers from the New World an unexpected helping hand. The \u00a0‘go to the back of the queue<\/em>‘ \u00a0days are well and truly over. That must bring\u00a0some cheer to Downing Street, now under siege from almost every quarter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" All along I\u00a0felt a Trump victory was on the cards because I\u00a0saw the connection to Brexit and Corbyn. People across the western capitalist system are angry because it has favoured the minority at the expense of the majority. Given a chance to vote against the political, ruling and financial establishments they will do so. But […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malcolm-blair-robinson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11142"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11145,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11142\/revisions\/11145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}