Immediately after President Trump was elected, he ordered for Churchill’s bust to be restored in the Oval Office. As an Englishman, I was very happy for his gesture because the so-called “Special Relationship” (a phrase first coined by Churchill) between our nations went downhill during the Obama years. When the President and the Prime Minister were walking together “holding hands,” we thought this relationship will blossom, but it did not.

Now it is time to show this special relationship is for real and the time has come to sign a trade deal between the USA and the UK, the day after Brexit. It was Churchill who wrote the “History of the English Speaking Peoples” in 4 volumes. Taking a leaf from it, we may encourage other English speaking countries such as Canada, Australia and New Zealand to join us as well. If we can pull this off, it would be the biggest Trade Alliance on earth.

English speaking countries have more in common than the 27 nations in the European Union. We have a common language, English. We value our Anglo-Saxon culture, we have common Judeo-Christian traditions and most importantly we have laws based on Common Law and not Napoleonic Codes like in France. These 4 unique commonalities are worth making a song and dance about for our common values and freedoms.

In my view, the UK has always been close to the US, Australia and other Commonwealth countries than to the Europeans. I accept the fact that we are close to our European neighbours geographically and if this makes us a European nation, then I can report to you that it did not last long, it lasted 45 years which is a very short time in historical measurements.

We believe in our sovereignty and freedoms in the USA and the UK. When we realize that these values were diminishing in front of our own eyes in the UK, we had to put a stop to it. We are now leaving the European Union.

We have repeatedly rejected calls for a second referendum and now the Conservative party is delivering what people have voted for. This rejection of the second referendum will go down in history as a lesson in democracy for our European friends and some people in the UK. We stood resolutely against the wishes of the European Union to carry out a second referendum like they did when the European Union did not get their own way in Denmark and Ireland. Because of our resolute refusal of a second referendum by Britain, lessons have been learned and I cannot see that this will happen in the future in Europe.

We need this Trade Alliance that will equally be beneficial for businesses on both sides of the Atlantic for more prosperity, peace and democracy. If you agree, please write to your Congressmen and Senators to ask for their support for this new Trade Alliance between our nations.

Hal Turkmen

Moultrie