What is a job worth?

Perhaps a slightly oversimplified question, but in the end isn’t that what it comes down to?

What, as a country, as a nation, as a widely diverse population, are we prepared to accept, tolerate, turn a blind eye to?

To ensure we maintain, or improve, our living standards, exactly how much are we prepared to allow to pass, because the alternative is a threat to our way of life?

We are well aware that, because of their regional strategic value, and their oil reserves, we are happy to provide weaponry to Saudi Arabia. Weaponry used to kill innocent people.

We know that, in the past, we have been more than happy to have mutually beneficial relationships with all forms and levels of despots, extremists and genocidal leaders, in the name of profit and domestic financial security.

So, let us add Trump to the list. One more won’t make that much difference.

And whether or not it is posturing to placate his electorate, or the reality of a new isolationist fanaticism, the ripples, the results are the same.

So we need to decide how much we value what we have, and what we want to have in the future.

Is my job, or your job, worth the gross mistreatment of totally innocent people, who just happen to be born in a country that is now on the banned list – even though not one US citizen has died on US soil because of the actions of anyone from one of those countries?

Is your job, or my job, worth the continual suffering of innocents in other parts of the world, their suffering the explicit or implicit result of our government’s actions or inactions?

This is not a choice that we can make on an individual basis. But it is a choice individuals can demand of their representatives. That parliamentary sovereignty we apparently are leaving the EU for – that is our power to say NOT IN MY NAME.

To stand next to Trump and say nothing is to accept his lunacy.

And for any who say that this is too simplistic, the world is a complex place, my answer is yes it is. But the choice, the moral imperative, is very straight forward.

The answer should always be NO.