The connection is simple, people are told their voice is not being heard and so demagogues step in with false promises and lies and play to the fears of folk in both cases focussing immigration and "making America great again" or "taking back control"; in the UK this was basically the will of a few expat media moguls and an establishment that wishes to ensure full control of all the home nations is kept securely within the corridors of Whitehall, in the US within Trump Tower.

Here int he UK immigration isn't going down any time soon and the delusion that England is ever going to regain the glories of it's imperial past are rather pathetic and sad, based on a vision of a era that doesn't and never did exist. The real issues that have left people feeling marginalised are not going to be addressed by Brexit or Trump, these problems are the fault of previous and successive governments and nothing to do with Europe; the tories imposed austerity and actively encouraged wage stagnation and pay inequality and are not addressing it now, and I'll bet a penny to a pound the workers of the rustbelt see zero improvement in their quality of life any time soon.

Trump and Brexit remove any hope for the future of our countries, their future is a bleak, semi-authoritarian world of divisiveness and hate. The US has lost it's credibility abroad, everyone thinks Trump is a dangerous, ignorant and unpleasant ape, the UK is going to go from being world leaders in science and tech working closely with our European allies to becoming a obsequious poodle of the sort of states no-one with an ounce of moral integrity wants to deal with at all; I guess if johnny foreigner is suffering and we can make a few bob who gives a shit? Not 52% of the UK it appears, who seem happy to settle for a devalued Poundland society.

You think our fishing communities are suddenly going to start hauling in record catches? Our farmers are going to replace the migrant workers that pick our food with the old white people that voted to keep them out? Will the steel workers of Pennsylvania suddenly be firing up the furnaces again?

Watch in five years time as the Brexiteers and Trumpers moan that their lot hasn't improved, that our countries are diminished in the eyes the world due to their idiotic xenophobia and mistake belief in their inherent superiority over everyone else.

Brexit and Trump are two side of the same coin, and neither are the way forward. They are lies and liars have convinced the people their won suffering is in their best interest. Amazing.