Three weeks to go..........

“Are our lives just the aggregate of the lies we've told?
― William Boyd, Any Human Heart

Why do I write my blog each day?...am I suffering from a senses of existential political dread. Am I staring at the future in a Blair like Bambi stair uncomprehendingly look at a post June 23^rd paradigm shift. I would love to know/ I spent my twenties meeting students from all backgrounds. I travelled Europe widely and like what I saw. I saw Ian Paisley changed from the narrow culturally unaware individual broaden in his outlook as he experienced Europe. If even he could change I reasoned there was hope for us all as we experienced different cultures. But today I feel a sense of darkening all around me in these terms. I hear the bleating claims of those singing their belief in the holy creed of sovereignty. We need a devolved Europe, a Europe of the regions not the fantasies we are seduced by.

Never mind that many fail to understand that everywhere the nation state is in decline. There are regional and cultural fault lines throughout the many nation states of Europe. Even t in the USA they are movements for regional autonomy. The nation state and sovereignty are a myth and it is unforgivable to fool the poor, the oppressed and the marginalised. Ids , Boris Johnson have no real interest in raising wages, defending workers rights and building stable communities/

The issue of immigration must be sorted by building stable communities, by not selling arms to dictators and by dealing with the issue of climate change. We will soon experience the full of climate change refugees and the climate change deniers in UKIP have no analysis of the real reasons for migration and deny the reality of the economic system. Perhaps I am a dinosaur not liking what I see, perhaps I am growing older and am becoming a Victor Meldrew of the Left. I dont know but I dont like what I see. If we choose Bexit, then energy of the Brexiteers would then turn to those they had lulled into voting to leave. They would turn on the poor and the unemployed, they would turn on the first generation immigrants and turn their energies to the enemies within. You can see it on the Facebook pages, the unthinking racism and xenophobia used to divide us. I went to sleep thinking of these words by MARTIN NIEMÖLLER:

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“ First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

Whatever way you vote on June 23 beware of the subtext haunting us all. Sovereignty is a myth, a failed argument for the nation state It is at the mercy of things that are more powerful than any country or European institution These things are the multinational companies that drive globalisation there is no sovereignty there only naked power.

“Is it possible to live reasonably without lying? Do lies form the natural foundation of all human relationships, the thread that stitches our individual selves together?” ― William Boyd, Any Human Heart