Let the Britons burn

The leading party of  the UK ruling coalition, the Conservatives, definitely are burning with a mission: to reduce governmental part of contemporary society using dirty politics based mostly on wishful thinking and bold lies. For that they introduced austerity during the contemporary Great Recession against everything what we learned from similarly terrifying Great Depression. How did that work out for you guys? Worse than you expected? I thought so.

Now they are turning their attention to the rest of Europe. The idea is that against the functioning of the famous integrated governmental/business machines in economies of Japan, the USA and China we will put up tinkering in our small backyards of each separate European country. The creative juices will magically grow up in our cute little gardens, and beat the heavy industrialized shiny competition in wooing the markets.

Be strong Britain! If your economy will not implode soon in your hardheaded austerity experiment, you will be able to make hostages out of other Europeans who are trading with you. A huge elephant of EU economy will be scared of an UK mouse.

That is an example of quite aggressive thinking, I would say.

Good luck with that. I love the jokes of my friends Britons. I have no illusions though. The era of the steam engine ended long time ago (starting in the UK the global warming headache for the whole world, by the way). Today's innovation is expensive, is difficult to do, and to protect. Let the Britons burn  if they wish. Let them leave the EU if this is their decision. In a surgery you remove the rotten flesh so the whole continent can survive and prosper.

(These remarks are also published in one more place with a small discussion: http://www.economist.com/node/21570691/comments#comments).