Just about eight thousand years ago there were no humans on the land now we call British Isles. The present isles were still connected by land bridge to the main land Europe. Then successive waves of initial humans colonized the land from Isle of Wight to Shetlands Isles and waning of ice age created the present British Isles.
In the historical period, the isles were invaded by Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Jutes, Vikings and Normans. After the Medieval period, the homogenized islanders’ brilliance shined which invented steam engine, electricity, etc. and colonized many lands all over the world and created countries of the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and other smaller ones.
After the Second World War, British Islanders’ fortune started to wane and their influence also diminished in the world. In the early 1970s they joined the European Common Market to strengthen their economy and hence their influence. However, the ECM became EU and started to constitute USE (United States of Europe) by creating single currency and advancing a notion of a single army. This made alarm bells ringing for the loss of identity of once mighty empire builders which ended in a referendum in 2016 and resulted in the exit vote from the EU.
The main proponents of the Brexit, viz. Farage, Johnson, Davies and others abrogated their responsibility and jumped the unsteady ship which left mainly the opponents to negotiate the terms of exit from the EU. Mrs May has done a great job under the circumstances and pretty soon there will be a vote in our Parliament on the terms. Now, it is up to us to show our MPs which way to vote. Let us do a good job of it.
Narsibhai Patel
New Malden
