Britons learned today from news sources around the country that more migrants landed in Great Britain by crossing the English Channel, usually in rafts and small boats, during 2019, than in any previous year on record. In fact, the news media now says the estimates is that the number increased by six times the amount from 2018.  According to British media reports, more than nineteen-hundred migrants arrived on rafts and small vessels that braved the English Channel during 2019. The English Channel is known as one of the stormiest passages in European waters. Some news media are speculating that fully half of those who attempted the crossing from Spain, Germany, and France, perished in their attempt. The British Royal Navy has not responded to questions about how many vessels adrift…

According to news sources in Europe, the EU (European Union) is at last reconciled to the loss of Britain as an equal trading partner and member of the ‘Club.’ Britons first voted on Brexit four years ago, but only this past year was Prime Minister Boris Johnson able to force a country-wide referendum with a specific time table for easing Great Britain out of the EU. Despite the many gloomy prognostications that this will mean the end of British business abroad, there are indications that some other countries in the EU are also considering a divorce. In Greece one of the top ruling parties, the Law and Justice League, has thumbed its nose at the EU authorities in Brussels by proposing a set of draconian laws that would radically change…