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Born 1944 the post-war Labour govt. provided every school child with cod-liver oil and one third of a pint of milk.We were inoculated against measles,smallpox and dipthaeria. They were determined to avoid the weedy growth of children after WW1 who were plagued by malnutrition, stunted growth, rickets and polio. Financially the Americans screwed us for the last Bank of England gold which went by ship from Liverpool to New York in 1947. Financially we were at rock bottom. Again we make the romantic mistake of dreaming the Americans are our best friends. They think of themselves, always. America FIRST. Wake up, UK.

If we could identify the fascinating reason why so many Chinese repeatedly risk their own lives to travel half way around the world to make the highly dangerous, illegal Channel crossing it would help us understand it better. Why always UK when other countries are so much easier to reach?

Should the UK tax imports, the cost of living for Brits will rise. Correspondingly the standard of living for Brits will sink. Also house prices will slow as demand drops. That is pure economic fact. Sadly, after Brexit economically the situation will  be one long downhill slide, folks. Britain is becoming poorer by the day.

I read somewhere that the theoretical maximum attainable speed of a displacement vessel is the square root of the waterline length times one point five. On a shallow canal of course many other factors mostly negative must be considered.