Tension between Britain and Iran is self-inflicted wounds, Britain playing role of policing the world as if we have Empire to run, playing dangerous game when Royal Marines boarded Iranian super tanker Grace One, off Gibraltar, on the pretext that it was carrying out EU dictate of sanctions imposed by EU on Syria.
EU consist of 29 nations, with more powerful nations like Germany and France, economically if not militarily. In any event Britain is set to leave EU on 31st October. While EU encourages Britain to do its dirty work, especially France and Germany, they go on establishing close relations with Putin’s Russia, stealing our trade, financing pipeline from Russian Siberia to Germany, costing billions that would make Europe dependent on Russian gas and oil, thus Russia having an unhealthy hold on Europe.
Our relations with outside world, especially Russia and China are at its lowest, even close relations between Britain and India under premiership of David Cameron is going down-hill. Who could forget the event when PM Modi addressed packed Wembley crowd of seventy thousand cheering British Indians, with PM Cameron standing side by side with PM Modi, on a bitterly cold day in November, and PM Modi describing CB as a good friend to the cheering crowd!
As so often mentioned, Britain is the worse governed nation in EU. There is crisis on home-front with queues outside “Food Banks” lengthening, even those in work queuing for food hand-out to put food on the table for their children that include hard-working nurses, NHS technicians and many more.
Number of people sleeping rough on our streets are at its’ highest, in bitterly cold and damp winter months. No wonder their average age is just 43 when national average is touching 80! The homeless population is also a disgrace for the fifth biggest economy, over a million people living in temporary accommodation, so often whole family living in one room with shared facilities.
London is also knife-crime capital of EU, with drastic reduction in police numbers while Overseas Aid budget is swelling. It is time our politicians come out of slumber; look after their own, follow into the foot-steps of Germany before playing Robin Hood overseas!
Bhupendra M. Gandhi
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