A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin (Proverbs 26:28, KJV).
After leaving the EU, the UK has joined Albania among the very few European countries not members of the EU. The Independent reported on 27 January 2019 about Albania as the ‘Colombia of Europe’: How tiny Albania became the continent’s drug trafficking headquarters – emphasis added:
“They are very good at managing networks throughout the world – from Latin America to Western Europe. And it’s quite clear that all these gangs operate with a certain level of political and police protection and support.”
In just a few years, say diplomats and officials, Albania has become the narcotics trafficking headquarters of the continent, and many fear the money has thoroughly infected the political elite, making it harder to shake off even with the lure of EU membership.
“It’s the Colombia of Europe,” said one Western diplomat. “It’s the drug producer and distributor of Europe.
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“Albania is no longer a hub of cultivation,” said one EU official. “It’s become a centre of investment, distribution, and recruitment.
A far cry or crime from the times when William of Wied was the Prince of Albania about a century earlier. From the reign of the House of Wied, Albanian has been demoted not even to a banana republic but the Republic of Weed.
That maybe gives an idea of the future prosperity for the UK promised by leaving the biggest and nearest market that the EU is to Britain at a time when countries depend heavily on trade with other countries for their prosperity – the Tories and Brexiteers making the once Land of Hope and Glory into The Land of Dope and Tory. Britannia waives the Rules, as Brian Reade has written in The Mirror, and Fool Britannia, the ITV television program that became reality in 2016 and 2019. There are a couple of possibilities for the new lyrics of The Land of Hope and Glory and Rule Britannia.
Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody could also be adapted as a celebratory Brexitian Rhapsody:
Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide,
No escape from reality
Open your eyes,
Look up to the skies and see,
I'm just a poor voter, I need no sympathy,
Because I'm easy come, easy go,
Little high, little low,
Any way the wind blows doesn't really matter to
Me, to me
Mamaaa,
Just killed a land...
Not to mention Another One Bites the Dust... Incidentally Bohemia (which they now call Czechia) decided to part with what is now Slovakia but both remain in the EU.
Apart from the lucrative drug trade, money laundering and creation of a tax haven for all the biggest criminals to bring their money, a nouveau Switzerland of banking, seem to be opportunities from Brexit. Maybe it will no longer be necessary to avoid taxes by hiding fortunes in Panama, one can soon do it in the UK. Albania is however the poorest country in Europe, even despite its lucrative drug trade. That maybe gives an indication of who will be benefiting from the politically promised prosperity from Brexit in the UK. The sovereignty from Brexit is solely about a maximum amount of sovereigns going into the pockets of the politicians and their friends who promoted Brexit.
According to the Crédit Suisse Global Wealth Report, the world's richest 1 percent, those with more than $1 million, own 44 percent of the world's wealth. This is doubtless the one remaining area where the Conservative Party remains conservative – the Tory motto is Mieux Mon Droit (better my right) – bob rule which does not provide sterling, barely a shilling to most Brits. In any event, intelligence is being outsourced offshore overseas.
Brexit per se is an act of minority rule. It is only 37 percent of the British people who voted for Brexit (with 72.2 percent turnout in the referendum, 51.9 percent voted to leave the EU, 48.1 per cent voted to stay in the EU). The remaining 63 percent of the British people did not vote for Brexit. Brexit does not have democratic legitimacy. Brexit is populist high treason, the principal traitors being the politicians who decided to hold an unnecessary and damaging referendum, playing games or gambling with the nation's future, a faux pas flattening the British national interest, pounding the British economy, a hung-drawn-and-quartered country by a nearly hung referendum result - downright high treason.
The bluish monkey producing something brownish... The referendum year 2016 was the Year of the Monkey in the Chinese Zodiac, making the once pragmatic and moderate party of business a party of monkey business; 2016 was also the year of US Presidential Elections - the UK and the US aping each other in a race of outdoing each other in bigotry.This monkey business seems to have historical roots in the Napoleonic wars. The early example of outsourcing, in this case of intelligence services, resulted in a monkey being hanged in Hartlepool as a suspected French spy. This account of history has in recent years become increasingly plausible with the people in Hartlepool voting for Brexit and the contemporary Tories. If you vote monkeys, you get peanut (no offence meant to real monkeys) - monkeypox, monkey vox populi.
The 2016 UK referendum on Brexit was like Pontius Pilate asking the crowd if Jesus should be released with the mob calling for the crucifixion of Jesus, pioneers of democracy and referendum, not to mention washing their hands!
Even without possessing much intellectual or other ability the Tories and Republicans manage to attract many votes from the poorest. In the UK and the USA it does not even seem necessary to fix elections in the Soviet style with a willing electorate of turkeys voting for Christmas. The American Republicans have rightly been long known as 'the dumb party' and the Tories have now more than qualified for the same by obliterating British national interest through Brexit despite even considerable imperfections of the EU. The ancient Roman concept of 'bread and circuses' for the people has been replaced by dope and Tories, the toxic fantasies of nationalism from the farcical Tories.
Harold Wilson was once upon a time in East London campaigning. The crowds were shouting "send them home", meaning immigrants. Harold Wilson shouted back asking "who shall we send off first? The nurses, the bus drivers...?" No politician nowadays seems to have the courage to say anything of the kind, the opportunist cowards. Even the patron saints seem to have abandoned England.
England was the country with maybe the longest tradition of moderation and maturity in politics, with ‘the mother of all parliaments’, and common sense, broad tolerance and respect amongst the English people, not to mention fantastic eccentricity. It is frightening how some of the world's most progressive countries in liberty and human rights can sink into such deep lows of hysterical insanity and parochial backwater mentality. Indeed Germany already was one of the most advanced countries in the world before the Nazis took power in the 1930s. Sic transit gloria mundi.
In Brexitland one can find surprisingly interesting to read what Giuseppe Principe di Lampedusa wrote about his native Sicily. In Lighea, Sicily is described as 'a lovely land, though inhabited by donkeys' which is a little unfair on donkeys. The old prince from Sicily which had just become part of the newly unified Italy under the 19th century unification Risorgimento told an envoy of the new unified country's government (emphasis added):
In Sicily it does not matter about doing things well or badly; the sin which we Sicilians never forgive is simply that of 'doing' at all... Sleep, my dear Chevalley, sleep, that is what Sicilians want, and they will always hate anyone who tries to wake them, even in order to bring them the most wonderful of gifts... your only mistake was saying 'the Sicilians must want to improve...' the Sicilians never want to improve for the simple reason that they think themselves perfect; their vanity is stronger than their misery (as quoted in The Last Leopard by David Gilmour, 2007, p. 192).
It is further explained that ''two and a half thousand years as a colonised people had made them incapable of even wishing to improve, so that they had turned inwards on themselves and acquired 'a terrifying insularity of mind'' (ibid. p. 194) and 'no place had been so much corrupted by its people and its rulers' (ibid. p. 196). Giuseppe di Lampedusa did not write only about Sicily of course. What he wrote can apply to any country. Take Lincolnshire, apart from sinking into increasing flooding by grace of governments and big business polluting the environment, many locals sink even lower by voting the very politicians who bring the flooding.
Once upon a time, traitors had their heads chopped off on Tower Hill. The voters of contemporary nationalist traitors arguably have so little in their heads that it is barely worth taking the trouble to chop them off.
Grand Duke Alexander of Russia described how even the least gifted of his relatives ‘would have made much better executives of the imperial administration than those treacherous robots who succeeded in getting hold of portfolios during the second part of the reign of Nicholas II (emphasis added).’
Brexit is somewhat the equivalent of the first world war in this century. It almost coincides at the same time of the century 2016 as opposed to 1914, bringing to an end a relative cosmopolitan Belle Époque. Both tragedies lasted several years with immense destruction leaving a shadow in time long after. If 2016 was like 1914, 2019 was like 1939. Sir Harold Acton wrote, "[t]wo wars have obliterated... that era of passportless security which appears, to those who have known it, as the swan-song of a golden age (Memoires of an Aesthete, p. 9).
One is left to wait for the time when lessons are hopefully learned even if that now seems to have to be the hard way. Hopefully the country can eventually resume focusing on real issues like running hospitals rather than ideological nonsense. The political left has been criticised of being ideological rather than pragmatic but the right wing has now taken that flaw to new extremes. With all the huge amounts of feces that Brexiteers have thrown around Britain and which is beginning to hit the fan, fans off the wall, turning the once fine and moderate country into a turd world country, the Turd Reich, one can now only wait and hope that something good will grow from it eventually, like produce to eat or beautiful flowers.
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall (Provers 16:18, KJV).
Psalm 1 (KJV) as partly also impressively and dramatically sung in Georg Friederich Händel’s Messiah (emphasis added):
1. Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
2. The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying,
3. Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
4. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
5. Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.
6. Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
7. I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.
8. Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
9. Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.
10. Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth.
11. Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
12. Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
"As long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people, greedy, barbarous and cruel." (T. E. Lawrence).
