Since the 23rd June 2016 BrExit has dominated the headlines in the United Kingdom and I blinked uncomfortably because the real priorities are as much national as international. Artificial measures to cure the natural flow of trade and money are risky.
Economic cycles were seriously unsettled in the aftermath of the 2007/8 financial crises and may have been prolonged by quantative easing and a long spell of low interest rates.
During the 20th century there were moments, when European legislators and law officers fell short of the mark, bearing in mind:
- The Polly Peck scandal
- Recurring finance/pension management scandals
- The Hillsborough incident compared with Heisel stadium
- A decline in Keynesian economic management principles
- Trouble at mill - the mining industry
- The Grenfell Tower
