Great Britain has gone mad

Politico reported several days earlier that French Interior Minister Natalia Loisau had called her cat “Brexit”. She had told Journal du Dimanche that she had chosen this name because “woke up in the morning with the honey to get out, and then when she opened the door to the cat was standing on the threshold, indecisive, and watched it violently when she grabbed it out. ”

If you can't accept a joke, you shouldn't have come to London by now because there's a political farce everywhere. Actually, it's not funny. It's tragic. What we're seeing is the determination of a country to commit economic suicide and that it can't even agree on how to kill itself. It's an epic failure of political leadership.

I say we return the monarchy. Where you went, Queen Elizabeth II, when an entire nation is looking at you.

Seriously, the United Kingdom, the fifth largest world economy, a country whose elite established modern parliamentary democracy, modern banking and finances, the Industrial Revolution and the whole concept of globalisation seem determined to leave the European Union, the world's largest market for freedom of movement of consumption, capital, labour services without a well-planned plan, or perhaps, without any plans.

Both lab members and conservatives of Parliament continue to reject plans after the plan, seeking a perfect solution, a painless departure from the EU. But there is no one because there cannot be a solution to stupidity.

The entire choice of Brex was presented to the public in 2016 with deceptive simplicity. It was sold with a string of roots for the large number of benefits, but also for the ease of implementation, and continues to be backed by radical conservatives who once worried about business but are already obsessed with the recovery of Britain's “subsurgent” on any economic consideration.

They don't seem to be listening at all to people like Tom Anders, executive director of the Airbus Aerospace giant, who holds 14,000 employees in the UK, and 110 thousand in total. Ersey has warned the political leadership here that if the UK simply leaves the EU in the coming weeks, Airbus could be forced to take over a super large, harmful <x0th) decisions for its operations in Britain.

Please don't listen to the madness of people who support Brexit who say that “because we have big factories here we're not leaving... But make no mistake, there are many places that would like to build the wings of an Airbus plane. ”

I understand the complaints of many who voted to leave the EU. For starters, they felt overwhelmed by EU immigrants. [ The EU should have protected the UK from that huge wave; it was the folly of Germany and France. There are reportedly about 300 thousand French citizens living in London who would make it one of the largest French cities in the world. I stopped for a drink with a member of parliament at a House of Representatives bar yesterday, and while we were sitting, he whispered that no one who worked in this building was British. ”

I also understand Britain's pain of limitations imposed by the EU's faceless bureaucratics in Brussels. And I also understand their disappointment with the globalized urban elites, who the residents of rural areas here believe they are looked down on. And I understand the squeeze of middle-class salaries that blame the EU and immigrants unjustly the same way that President Trump blames the Mexicans. I understand all that.

But I also know what it means to be a leader in the 21st century. And of course it doesn't mean putting your sovereignty above everything, or leaving the giant EU market, where the UK sends over 40 percent of exports, without serious national discussions about cost and benefits.

What do most effective leaders today have in common? They wake up every morning and ask the same question: “In what world am I living? What are the world's largest trends? And how do I educate my citizens about this world and how to connect my policies so that more people can take advantage of these trends and avoid harm?

In what world are we living? For starters, we're living in a world that's getting so interconnected by digitalization, the internet, broadband, mobile equipment, and wireless transmissions that will soon become 5G ] that are becoming interdependent in an unprecedented measure. In this world, development increasingly depends on the ability of yourself, your community, your city, your factory, your school and your country to become more and more connected with the flow of knowledge and investment and not just to rely on reserves.

Over the centuries, notes John Hagel, who eventually co-ordinates the Deloitte Centre, business is “organised about the stocks of knowledge as the basis for creating value. The key to developing economic value was to achieve proper recognition stocks and aggressively defend and then to fragment economic values from them and distribute them to the market. The challenge in a rapidly changing world is that these stocks of knowledge are accelerated as well. In this world, the key element of economic value is changed from stock to flow.

“Companies that will create the highest value in the future will be the ones that will find ways to participate more effectively in the wide range of divers knowledge that can refresh learning stocks to an accelerated extent. ”

Yet, Britain is being led today by a party seeking to bring it together from the connected world. The notion the UK will suddenly receive a free market agreement from Trump once it leaves the EU is absurd. Trump believes in competitive nationalism, and the only reason he is promoting UK departure from the EU is the belief that America can dominate individual EU economies better than when negotiating together as a single major market in the world.

The second thing that the best leaders understand is that in a world of single-time imbalances in technology and globalisation, keeping the country open for as much flow as possible is an advantage for two reasons: Take all signals for first change and you have to respond to them and attract high-level IQ-makers who tend to be the people who start or advance new companies.

In the United States, who is Microsoft executive director? Sayia Nadella. Who's the executive director of Google? Sundar Picchai. Who is the executive director of Adobe? Chantanu Naray. Who's the executive director of Workdays? Aneel Bhutri. Hello London? The best talent wants to go into more open systems and open to emissions and trade because that's where it is. Britain will give a big sign: Go away.

The wisest leaders also realize that all of today's major problems are global problems, and they must have only global solutions. I'm talking about climate change, market rules, technological standards and preventing efficiency and deterioration in financial markets. If you want your country to have something to say about how to solve these problems, and the name of this country is not America, Russia, China or India, it should be part of a broader coalition like the European Union. The membership of the United Kingdom in the EU has given a very small voice in world affairs.

And there's one thing the best leaders know: few stories. Trump is in order with the world of competitive European nationalism, not a strong European Union. So does Vladimir Putin. So it seems that there are Brex supporters. As soon as they forgot that the EU and NATO were built to prevent the competitive nationalism that destroyed Europe in the 20th century and brought two world wars.

I like Britain. But this is not a reasonable British government that I grew up with.

It is being led by a ship of fools, the bloc of the conservative party that is now radical in its obsession with leaving Europe and with the Marxist party that has become Marxist. If people here cannot force their politicians to compromise with each other and compromise reality, there will be a breach of the British political system and serious economic pain. And that's scary. /Periscope, New York Times