Will Britain go down the drain now?

The vote in favour of Brexit by the UK came as a rude shock not only to the European Union, but to most politicians in the UK as well. It seems even those who had been campaigning for it are dumbstruck now by their success. The referendum was a promise of UK Prime Minister David Cameron from his election campaign and, making good on his promise will now cost him his post.

Why did this happen? Was it the loss of national sovereignty? Or, was it the rejection of former Prime Minister Tony Blair’s and Cameron’s autocratic rule and their policy of joining the war against terror that turned the imperial Great Britain into a banana republic of the US that people have rejected? Or, was it due to scaremongering headlines of the migrant crises and job losses? In that case, just wait and see when Germany and France steal a bunch of companies in manufacturing from the UK, and in turn add more to the job losses.

Tourism, visa and education are perhaps the major sources of earning, but on Sunday June 26, when I arrived from Frankfurt, Germany at 8.30am, it took three hours to get out of the airport on a normal, everyday kind of Sunday and the employees at Heathrow Airport in London, UK blamed the slow process down to the lack of funds.

I think the UK is losing its edge and is unable to lead the EU anymore. It seems that Britain needs to focus more on home policy issues than on the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) warfare.

- The reader is a businessman based in Earley, UK.