RULE BRITANNIA, BRITANNIA RULES THE WAVES

Remember that? Remember when “the sun never set on the British Empire”? The Fall of Rome came after half a millennium. The heyday of the British Empire spanned the period between the Industrial Revolution and the Great Depression, that is to say, at most two centuries.

Now, as the great Caribbean bard, the Mighty Sparrow, sang: “London Bridge is falling down.” Brexit appears to be the final nail in the coffin.

The British Empire was an enterprise of global proportions that created incredible wealth for the island nation. People from the plundered nations have come to the center of the fallen Empire to reclaim some of what was stolen from them.

What goes around comes around.