Brexit is already ongoing

 I visited London from March 5-8 in 2019, to see the situation of the UK, just before the Brexit day of March 29.
 I flew from Paris to London, and already the borders were established within the EU, between France and the UK. I passed the control to enter Paris and to go out, it means I went through two gates at the airport of CDG in Paris. Then, arriving in London, at the Gatwick airport, I had to write down the embarkment card to pass the passport control.

In front of the Parlement, some people demonstrated their wish to remain in the EU, and to ask the another referendum.
 Some are concerned very much of the future of the UK economy ; the Honda decided to close its factory in UK and other companies try to move their European headquarters from UK to other European countries.

 However, still many British people support the idea of the Brexit; there are some reasons : some say they don't want to be controlled by the non-democratic political system, the EU commission or its huge bureaucracy. Some say that immigrants from poor countries in EU take over their jobs in UK.
 As you know, a famous UK Premier Churchill said in 1947:
'it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…'
 Even now, in the Parliament, members put the importance of debate, discussions and votes. That's maybe why there is much difficulty to have a consensus on the agreement with EU.

 I prayed for the victimes of the terrorism occurred in front of the Parliament a few years ago. Even today, on the day of my arrival in London, there were bombings alert  in 3 different places in London, including the Heathrow airport. While I was walking around inside the city of London, a station of the underground (subway or tube) was closed because of the security reason. The alarm did not stop all over the station.

 I was astonished to know the influence of China in UK ; for example, at a hotel where I was staying, most of guests and hotel staff were European people, however, a Chinese news paper 'China Daily' was exposed on the lobby desk, next to UK news papers including 'The Times' and 'The Daily Telegraph' etc. 

Comparing to Paris, I felt the city of London is quite clean and safe, and you can use and read English, but, this time, I don't know why, I met less Japanese in London than in Paris.

 During my one-week stay in Europe, the weather forecast was every day rains ; however, wishing with a Teruteru boy, a fine day, we had a sunshine! Thanks Gods.

以下は、チャンネル桜の番組「2019年3月18日放映）でロンドン報告等を語ったものです。