FAR TOO MUCH POLITICS

GIVE or take a month or two, almost six of the last 18 months have been spent in national political campaigning.

There was the preparatory process for the General Election of last year, then the four-month preliminary period for the EU Referendum earlier this year.

The thought of a possible election this autumn – with its preceding campaigning and canvassing – is too much to contemplate.

I say that as someone possessing a penchant for politics and parliamentary procedures and practices. bility from the Middle East to Pakistan.

And that’s just part of it. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 NATO expanded bringing 12 more countries in, making Russia feel bullied and isolated.

Then unilaterally America pulled out of the 1972 Anti Ballistic Missile Treaty with Russia and started a new Cold War with Russia and China.

But what goes around comes around and recently the Chinese President Xi Jinping made an extraordinary offer to President Putin when he visited Beijing.

He said: “The world is on the verge of radical change. We see the European Union is falling apart, how the US economy is crashing, and that all this will end with a new rearrangement of the world. In 10 years we can expect a new world order in which the key factor will be the alliance between China and Russia.”

He then said: “We are currently observing the USA’s aggressive actions, both in regards of Russia and China. I believe that Russia and China can create an alliance before which NATO would be weak, and this would put an end to the Imperialist ambitions of the West.”

In other words because of the new Cold War we’ve started China and Russia will form a military alliance that will be far stronger than the Warsaw Pact armed with nuclear weapons pointed at our cities.