2016 – a mark on a historical timeline
Today is election day for the US Presidential Elections. A worrying time for us all. If Donald Trump gets in it would probably be regarded as a milestone in history. We, the world, could be facing instability and disaster. Even more than is already going on.
For readers in the future 2016 has been a turbulent year. A (small) majority of people who voted in the EU Remain/Leave referendum voted to leave. The leave campaign was driven by lies about the financial benefits of leaving (eg NHS £350m a month better off) and played to people’s prejudices about immigration. The remain campaign was run by an ineffective Prime Minister called David cameron who history will record as one of the worst leaders we have ever had.
The Middle East is full of instability and war, a situation that has created millions of refugees who have in turn fuelled the anti-immigration fire. Russia is once more becoming expansionist escalating East West tensions and creating concerns that we might be facing another cold war situation.
Why do we do this to ourselves?
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Trump was elected…