The UK is suffering a deep gasoline shortage, with panic buying, long lines and even violence at gas stations breaking out all over the country.  Oh, there’s plenty of gasoline, but it can’t get to gas stations.  Why, you ask?  No truck drivers.  No truck drivers? Where did they go?  The answer? Back to their homes in Eastern Europe.  When isolationist conservatives in the country managed to pull off the almost impossible task of pulling out of the European Union, all free immigration between member countries and the UK came to a screeching halt.  So, not only did EU trade agreements end with Brexit, so did immigration.  So, the jobs that Brits don’t want, wait staff, dishwashers, slaughterhouse workers, housekeepers, and yes, truck drivers, have gone unfilled because of the isolationist policies of conservatives who push the same policies pushed by Trumpist Republicans in the US.  Boris Johnson has just put the British army on standby to put them into trucks to move gasoline from the ports to gas stations.

If you’re looking for how Trump’s plan to stop immigration would work out, you only need to look at the UK. Trying to wall off the country doesn’t work, has never worked, and will never work.  Countries’ economic prosperity is dependent on being a member of a global society which includes global markets and the ability of people to move to where the jobs exist.  That’s not what we’re seeing the in the UK, and conservatives in the US are trying to run us over the same cliff.

80 years ago today Great Britain declared war on Germany for invading Poland.  At the same time, Winston Churchill was appointed Lord of the Admiralty to fight the Germans.  He was later elected Prime Minister.  Ironically, today, 80 years to the day, Nicholas Soames, Churchill’s grandson, was notified he was being ejected from the Conservative Party, along with 20 other conservatives, for daring to vote against Boris Johnson Trump who is trying to crash the UK out of the EU without an exit plan.

Republicans in Congress can take a lesson here.  Soames, who’s been in Parliament for 37 years, is not allowed to stand for re-election as a conservative.  He disregarded this threat from Johnson and put his country before his own career.  If only our own spineless Congress would do the same here.  I’m not holding my breath.