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They grab Ugarte and she walks in – One in One out

With apologies to Richard Blane and Viktor Laszlo

So there you have it, as a key advisor of Tony Blair, Sir David Manning claimed leaving the EU would condemn Britain to irrelevance on the world stage.

  Sir David Geoffrey Manning, GCMG CVO (born 5th December 1949) is a former British diplomat, who was the British Ambassador to the United States from 2003 to 2007. He authored the so-called ‘Manning Memo’ summarising the details of a January 2003 meeting between American president George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair during the run-up to the invasion of Iraq. He has since been appointed to the Household of TRH The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry of Wales.

If that’s the best reason all these so called Men of Straw can come up with to keep the entire population of the UK in bondage to the dreaded EU Commission, there’s not much hope for us anyway. Possibly people like Sir David are alarmed by the prospect that when they choose to open their mouth, on this mythical World Stage no one will be listening.

But what they choose to avoid mentioning is the one incontrovertible fact above all else, that the EU cannot work without becoming a Federal Superstate with policy, treasury and political matters dictated by a European Parliament.

This would make what Sir David now relies on for his bread and butter an ‘irrelevance’.  For what point would there be in Queen and Country and three male heirs? If we were subsumed into a United States of Europe, as a satellite state ruled by an EU president and a political system that cannot even get its accounts approved in 14yrs.

With the advent of a referendum and the approval of Brexit it is surely now a matter of course that we will soon be able to breathe freely without the intervention of unelected commissars plaguing our everyday lives But they have to be watched every step of the way. However  with Germany anxious to qualify the terms of any on-going relationship with the EU. Maybe the wheels will turn more swiftly as we embrace the whole wide world with special relationships that have endured the test of time.

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UK/China Relations

 Over the Centuries

Relations with Great Britain have been subject to great confusion and misunderstanding 

as all aspects of previous are laid bare in wikipedia - 

But regrettably: people with vested interest are attempting to muddy the waters for Therese our new PM in reviewing the Hinkley Point decision.  This is disingenuous to the extent that any incoming PM with reservations should be able to express concerns and review decisions to which they may have taken exception when agreements were originally signed-off.

However enshrined in the English Parliamentary system is the understanding that any new government is not bound by decisions of a previous incumbent and in that spirit it may be that certain aspects of a controversial deal should be re-examined in the light of this principal. How far this concept goes as regards a general rule of thumb may be open to consideration, but it should be inviolable amongst the rights of any new PM without let or hindrance.

Admittedly Opium Wars were a feature of centuries past and the world has moved-on, though whether this moving-on is completely agreed by all as Edward 1st's Maxim 'That which concerns all should be agreed by all'  applies specifically in this case is an open question. But one cannot disagree with this concept if parliamentary approval has been given.

However as the political world veers towards government by referendum, the idea that the end result should await a General Election transfer of power would in a way be self-defeating and so long as the majority voting system 51%/49% prevails that should be sufficient after due consideration.    

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