You must be joking about having someone like Putin in control of the UK!

Not really, am actually deadly serious. For about five years, we need someone who can sort out the Heathrow mess, get the crime under control and stuff like that. But then the UK is too kind, and that kindness is taken as weakness.When China dictates to the UK over Hong Kong, we just say OK, there is nothing we can do, trade links with China, and roll over like a dog and lick the PRC governments balls. When in Mali there was a coup d'etat by islamist militants, the french sent in paratroopers and restored the authority of the president there, without any messing about or worrying about hurt feelings, why was that? Because, a former colony, they are responsible for it and have interests there.

We need realpolitik, not pandering to others all the time. Much like when you lend a friend money, they will ask for more and expect it.Another example is India having all our call centre work, while our own youth are attending the jobcentre on stupid schemes to get benefits, get them trained to work in call centres and off the dole. Why we export so much of our own work outside the UK, and show such cowardice and weakness to other countries like China, like India, like the OPEC nations I will never understand.

Where is the spirit of churchill and the british bulldog, we shall fight them on the beaches.....seems that is long gone.