Now it is official - the result has come in and people have voted to leave the EU. You may have wondered what the fuss this is all about. What are the significances of the UK leaving the EU? Or more pressing or relevant - what does it mean to you, an ordinary person on this side of the Globe? The short answer is probably not very much. However, it may mean a lot to your children and their children.
Let us put things in proper perspective. Things have not, except for the worse, changed a bit since 2008. Those in power, or positions that could make a change, are too complacent or too obsessed with their own self interest to have initiated any meaningful change to this unjust and unbalanced system (read this as the bankers and property magnates). The rich have become richer and the poor the poorer. The haves are holding on to their excesses and surplus, whilst the have nots have nothing to put on their table.
This global imbalance started in the late 1980's or early 1990's when the rich and their political agents began touting the 'merits' of globalisation and its institutional incarnate - the WTO. Their eyes can see only the price but not the value. In the name of economic efficiency, they are able to exploit the poor more efficiently and on a global scale. Never has it been before in human history easier and to a much bigger extent than the past two decades or so for the poor to get poorer. And all this has happened in the name of globalisation.
Now, the people have awoken to this true reality. The UK referendum is not so much about leaving the EU than a vote of revolt by the have nots against the haves. Real change is demanded of the complacent and, now is the time - not tomorrow and not the day after. As with their ancesters 800 years ago, the English have again set in motion this new sea change. You will soon witness in country after country the poor start demanding fairness and justice from this unjust institution. Don't be surprised if Donald Trump is elected president of the United States in November this year.
Obviously, this is going to be a long drawn out process, for the rich will not yield up what they are wielding so easily. However, the fire has been set and, it will surely spread, because the poor are fed up with this injustice for too long. Do you still remember when the last person said 'yes, we can'? Yet there is nothing we can do.
Let this date 23 June 2016 go down in history as did such dates as 4 July and 14 July. When the events of the present have run their course, and dust settled, you will see the true significance of the moment and realise that you have been part of that history having been in the making. Even better, if you are lucky and live long enough, you could live to tell the tales to your grandchildren.
God bless the people. Amen.
