Avoiding an Undesirable Axis.

I see Trump and Johnson are being all very chummy at G7. Trump is trying to push the view that the EU is a ball and chain around the legs of the British, presumably because he knows that if Britain leaves the EU it will slip further under the influence of America and be driven further in the direction of American interests as he perceives them. And Johnson is manically pro-Brexit.

It’s all nonsense, of course. Britain is a significant player in Europe, and Europe is generally a saner place than America. If Britain is to align itself with any bigger body, better the lateral alignment with Europe than the subservient one with America. And I’m not being anti-American in saying that, just privileged to look at the place from a distance.

So the big question for me at the moment is whether the Americans and British will be able to rid themselves of these two impostors – neither of whom was given their elevated position by public consensus – before they do too much more damage. The next elections will be interesting.