DeGlobalised - Leaving the EU, Brexit

It's been a while since I blogged on this site - and this time it is not going to be a travel post. Surprisingly its been about a month since my last travels and for the past few weeks I have based myself at home in Cambridge. Is it a coincidence that within this time, the UK officially left the EU? Ok, yes it is - I am heading out into the EU next week anyway.

However, I felt like I had to comment on something vaguely related to my travels - the trade deal that is trying to be negotiated. Ok, I put my hands up, there is nothing we can do anymore with the movement of people but at least there is something that could still be done with the movement of goods and services. And, in my opinion I think the EU should take the higher ground. Scroll after the pictures for my “letter" to the EU.

Barrier into the UK?

Cambridge - British but very outward looking

From the Backs - but not backward looking

EU, I know that this is a game but let Boris take the easy way out and stand on higher ground. This may seem like a concession, but on the contrary, it will allow you to show the world that this world do not have to be one that is dictated by greedy capitalism but one of sustainable and responsible capitalism.

Hear me out here : you started as a socio political experiment which had economic repercussions - positive ones on the whole. You are today also developing an image of a progressively liberal society, where the majority of your citizens are working towards a greater order not a zero sum one cross generation. Isn't it time for you to prove that your people, through a revolutionary experiment, are ready for a world where output growth may be slower but human development is higher? You might as well give UK the chance to grow economically but socially digress while you continue on a more sustainable growth and development path.

I say this in response to Boris's view that he doesn't think that he needs to follow EU regulatory standards on goods and services. Prove to the world that the technical standards imposed by the EU is not an instrument of economic protectionism but instead an actual standard to ensure a high quality of European life. I think you can afford it! Let Boris bring British standards down in the race to the bottom with other economies still stuck in a socio economic ideology not fit for 21st century challenges. Resources which is not so tainted with blood will still stay and it will free the economy up for the creation of a less inequitable structure.

I write this from across the channel, already green with envy on what future generations of Europeans will enjoy. Or am I too blue eyed for you?