Something odd is happening to our politics. Whilst I was away I watched in total fascination a news program called Fox News. I had seen it before on previous trips and it is always riveting.
Two separate news themes dominated the air waves for days. Whether to impeach Trump took centre stage in all of them and the case for this drastic action was discussed most evenings.
At the same time he set off for Britain with a great deal of noise.
How he got the idea that he was entitled to tell Mrs May and her Parliament how best to govern our country is hard to say but it has now become almost surreal.
Whilst they are calling for his blood in his own country he is advising us on the NHS and our next Prime minister and Mrs May appears to be listening...
Why?
She is going soon anyway and I’m sure Trump would like his friend Boris to take over...but would the country? Would we?
He is having tea with the Queen and introducing his family into the conversations...
It is all very strange indeed. My advice to both Mrs May and Boris is to try to contain him...
He is an elected politician. But he can surely not think he can actually influence the monarch and the politicians of Great Britain against his desperately flagging stature in his own country.
I’m sure Farage and Boris must be delighted by all of this but what about our PM? Or our Queen?
I imagine if your popularity has plunged as badly as his has in his own country then it’s tempting to try a different electorate.... but what’s happening at present is quite surreal as well as both amusing and worrying...
Can we have a general election sooner rather than later....please?
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Mr Trump is a spent force. All of his great rhetoric of being a deal maker has foundered on the rock of his stupidity and failure to listen to advisers, who could have made hims a force for good. He has self interest at heart and this state visit with all of its pomp and circumstance, is grist to his publicity mill.
But his pronouncements about the UK and now Ireland, comparing the border between the North and South to his own Border with Mexico is crass in the worst sense. I am pleased that their PM put him straight. Perhaps Mrs May did the same, but given that she is a spent force, would he really listen?
We need a general election certainly, to shift the blockage that is currently in parliament, but we risk letting the Farage machine into power, or at least opposition.
We should act to ban all of the right wing popularism that surrounds the Brexit votes and listen carefully for those who wanted to leave or to remain to find out what the underlying issues are and address them, not a futile attempt to convince the EU that we are ready to remain or leave without a deal.
We need to have good relations with our European neighbours as well as the USA, but not at the cost of our national unity, which is dangerously divided at the moment.
Not national self interest, but an international partnership for peace and prosperity, working alongside and with all nations to defeat the negativity and selfishness which deprives so many places of a future due to climate change.
In other worlds, we need to rebuild God's Kingdom and Creation now and ongoing for the future of our children, grandchildren and future generations.
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