The way Europe works is really quite complicated. It isn’t just the single market – there is a lot more to it. At the moment I am trying to get some international business and managed to get shortlisted. Normally there would be 28 countries supporting you getting the work, that’s supporting all Europeans trying to get the work. As of today I have one country supporting me getting the work, and other European competitors have 27.
So I’ll still try to get that contract, but in reality the chances are now very, very slim. That’s before Brexit takes effect – it’s just the effect of the vote. It may have cost me a big contract.
Tonight I went to a concert and met a doctor from Uganda. His cancer therapy equipment had failed two months ago and he couldn’t get a replacement. Patients couldn’t be treated. And then reality came back. It wasn’t important. It was only money. The market problems, the exchange rate, in or out, it’s not real, it’s not the value system I choose to live my life by.
A friend posted on their timeline “so what’s the plan”. But to be honest the plan of Boris and Nigel isn’t my plan. Whatever they have in mind it isn’t my value system, it isn’t my plan. Tonight Martyn sang:
And the purpose of power is to give it away;
This is my truth, tell me yours.
And freedom won’t be freedom until poverty has gone;
So Jo your dream’s alive and strong.
And there is the challenge, working to create a society that has different values; there is a plan for the future, not to get caught by a value system that breeds greed, fear and hate, but to change our society into something amazing, a place where Boris and Nigel will feel like foreigners.