The world needs to be saved from the decisions of irrational people

Mark Carney, the bank’s governor, has said this morning that the Bank of England (Britain’s central bank) will spend 250 BILLION pounds to save the pound in the fall-out following Brexit.

The English, not the British, voted for Britain to pull out to stop Johnny Foreigner popping in to claim benefits, and now they’re going to have to spend hundreds of billions to save themselves from the consequences of their own stupid and irrational decisions.

There is no respite from ignorance, wherever you look.

I think I am beginning to get the glimmering of insight into what sane and rational people felt like in the late 1920s and 1930s as they watched the rise of fascism around them.

I am reminded of something said by one of the characters in the book Beautiful Antonio, by Sicilian writer Vitaliano Brancati, set in 1930s Catania, as he navigates his way among friends and colleagues who are currying favour with fascists to gain political and social advantage. Referring to Hitler and Mussolini, who casts a dark shadow over the island, he says: “Those two barnyard fowl are going to start a war they are going to lose.”