Opposites PM May and President Trump love fest on Holocaust Day

HBN meets at The Cube, Alconbury

Networking and volunteering day; Surreal PM May President Trump love-fest and press session, on Holocaust day.

Networking day. It was Natasha's birthday and she brought in a sponge baked by her daughter and gluten free chocolate cake made with beetroot to the A14 network - both delicious. Volunteering for one and half hours at the Norris offices, where the soundtrack in the background was an old video recording of an interview with Clive Sinclair. Had to sprint down The Broadway, The  Waits and through the All Saints grounds in St Ives to catch my lift with Luana to Alconbury for Part 2 of Victor's Twitter workshop at the HBN Lunch and Learn.

This was a paid for event which upset one visitor who wanted to talk about his regional organisation. He left when it was clear that even his hallowed organisation was not exempt from payment - after distributing his business cards. It generated some consternation, as many of us are microbusinesses that were willing to pay the small workshop fee of GBP 10 for non-members.

Today was a slightly surreal day politically. It was Holocaust Day, a reminder of what one nation can inflict on another; PM May and POTUS Trump - two totally different characters - held convivial talks in private and gave a positively love-fest meeting with the press; PM May asked BBC Reporter Laura Kuensberg for her question, which probed items such as Mexico and torture, earning the joking(?) response from the President to PM, "That's your choice of a question? There goes that relationship!" to general laughter in the room. Fortunately for UK, Queen had invited POTUS to visit; Queen still trumps Kuensberg effect. Trump also authorises extreme vetting of immigrants from certain Muslim and African states.

Interesting that Mexico has a trade deficit with the US of USD 60bn and is vilified, whilst US has a trade deficit with the UK of about USD 120bn, and we are at the moment a preferred partner.

Is a canny May putting on all the charm and letting the Press ask the difficult questions? We may be the Brexit favouristes today, could we easily become the next Mexico of tomorrow?