Brilliant article by William Hague on Trump+ the implausibility of Brexit

"Donald Trump does not have the encumbrance of policies, with details attached, costs identified and implications analysed. He only has general statements, which he modifies or abandons as necessary: a recipe for an easy campaign and a catastrophic government. Similarly, the Leave campaign does not have an agreed alternative to put into action following a victory on June 23; the consequences will somehow be sorted out later. Any plan has been quickly abandoned when criticised: first we were going to be like Canada, then like Albania. Now we are just going to have “access to the single market”, which means: be like all the countries whose goods have to clear EU customs, have EU tariffs added to them, and are subjected to EU standards, without having any influence over what they might be. The Leave campaign is really the Trump campaign with better hair."
The full article so you an make your own judgement is here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/16/the-leave-campaign-is-really-the-donald-trump-campaign-with-bett/

I do not want Trump as leader of the free world - time to get behind Hillary Clinton

So Cruz is toast and all moderate and normal politicians have been blown away. The hitherto unthinkable has happened. As the commentator Iain Martin has put it:
"The Republican party is lumbered with a candidate who has made the most appalling remarks about women, the disabled, Muslims and Mexicans. He is a trainee demagogue who burbles on like a pillock at the bar about his pet hates. And he will be the GOP’s candidate against Hillary Clinton. For America, this is a shameful day. For the rest of us it is terrifying.
I’m not remotely religious, but I must admit I could – right now – take up praying."
I agree. I hope America gets behind Mrs Clinton. I shall help in any way I can

The Republicans and Trump deserve each other. I support Hillary Clinton for the USA President

The presidential election may sadly feature Donald Trump on the ticket, unless strange things happen at the Republican convention. The present republican alternative is not much better as Cruz is a pea in the same pod. The moderate and very capable candidates have not cut through. This is a shame. I like the look of John Kasich, who has actually run a state successfully in Ohio - see here: https://www.johnkasich.com/meet-john/
Or Rubio, who has failed to translate a ground up back story into a viable candidacy.

But the truth is that they have been drowned out by a Republican Party that is behaving like UKIP on steroids. Cruz and Trump are tapping into American fears, anger and popular nationalism in a way that will solve little. There are few easy choices as any MP, county councillor, or parish councillor will tell you, but this is not the way ahead.
But there is no question that across the world there is an anti everything campaign that is gaining traction - whether this is far right in the USA or France or far left in Greece and Spain. In my experience, the majority of the population are in the middle ground. For that reason I do not believe trump will win the presidency. He is also up against a formidable lady in the form of Hilary Clinton. She is well qualified for the job, having been an American lawyer, senator and foreign secretary.
She will have my support. She will do what she can to unite her country. Trump would divide it. I also think - as a former chairman of Women2Win - it will be a seminal moment for a woman to have the top job in the USA
The guardian take on her is here:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/28/hillary-clinton-honest-transparency-jill-abramson