Global Britain, great and free

The nations, not so blest as thee,

Must in their turn, to tyrants fall,

While thou shalt flourish great and free,

The dread and envy of them all.

“Rule, Britannia! rule the waves:

“Britons never will be slaves.”

From ‘Rule Britannia!’ by James Thomson, 1740.

“Dread and envy” of other nations? Under Brexit? The first, maybe; the second, not so much….

P.S. China’s largest trading partner is…the EU