THERE are some Zimbabweans, going around fooling themselves to believe that zvinhu zviri kufaya muEngland.
I would like to put them in the bigger picture.
Recent events have shown that Britain is slowly losing her grip on influencing outcomes in Europe.
I have never felt as sorry for David Cameron as I did last week when he lost the Jean-Claude Juncker vote over the European Commission presidency.
David Cameron had lobbied for the European countries not to vote for Jean-Claude Juncker as the European Commission president, only to be outvoted by 26 to two.
Only Hungary voted alongside the UK.
I have a lot of respect for David Cameron especially over his relationship with Zimbabwe. Unlike his predecessors Gordon Brown and Tony Blair, David Cameron would not openly demonise or rebuke our President in public.
As a Tory, he knows who butters the bread for British business interests.
He knows what Britain would lose by isolating Zimbabwe.
The Labour leaders seemed to care less about British interests in Zimbabwe.
But the EU vote has left his ego bruised.
Many newspapers here in the UK have reported the victory of Jean-Claude Juncker as a major setback for David Cameron, who, they argue, has been let down by his European allies.
Disappointed by the defeat he said: “I’ve told EU leaders they could live to regret the new process for choosing the commission president.
“I’ll always stand up for UK interests.”
Perhaps he lost control of Europe because of leaning towards America so much at the expense of his neighbours.
In domestic policy, Prime Minister David Cameron has a big bone to chew.
The UKIP, which is riding high on an anti-European Union mantra, is gaining political ground and dividing both the Tory and Labour votes.
Ordinary Britons are fed up with the EU especially on the immigration issue.
Britain takes a larger share of the EU immigrants, which is causing animosity between ordinary Britons and EU migrants.
Last week, Masimba Musodza, a Zimbabwean writer based in Middlesbrough commented that a recent English Defence League (EDL) march in Middlesbrough adds to racial prejudice against black people.
He said: “They (EDL) don’t harass, they just march through the streets.
“To me (the march) does not really do anything except allow white liberals — who lead the counter-protest marches — a chance to convince themselves that they are not racist.
“It does nothing for the real day to day problems of racism in this town.
“This is still a place where police will stop you if you are new and ask why you are here. Kids are getting bullied at school and the school authorities only acting when the kids fight back.
“There is also widespread employment discrimination too.
“The EDL are standing for what they believe in.
“I am yet to see black people do the same…”
Last week I was surprised to read some graffiti denouncing Polish immigrants (written on chairs) when I went to my local housing office.
In the graffiti they denounced Polish people as benefit scroungers, some saying they should go back to Poland.
They are angered by the new comers’ access to council housing and welfare benefits.
Perhaps they were right to vent their frustration in graffiti, because in that office there were more foreigners (EU immigrants and Africans) with different housing benefit queries and housing issues than there were English or British people.
I think we outnumbered the local people with a ratio of 7:3.
“Chickens coming to roost!” a colleague from St Vincent once said to me a few years ago, making reference to many immigrants coming from the former colonies.
I really feel sorry for British politicians.
I understand the frustrations of ordinary people.
I saw a bleak future for black people in Britain.
I wonder how long it will continue zvinhu zvichifaya!
One would understand the pressure that David Cameron is feeling.
He has to be seen to be doing something; trying to reform the EU.
But his European allies let him down.
They don’t share his frustration and grief.
Britain has isolated herself in Europe by acting as a province or another state, the USA.
Commenting on the humiliating defeat, the Guardian newspaper said: “Mr Cameron needs to recognise that the Juncker episode was a failure.
“He also now needs to learn its lesson and then put it behind him.
“He now needs to follow that up by doing more to show potential allies that Britain takes Europe and its EU partners seriously…(he needs) to talk the language of cooperation more and of separation less.” 
In fact, the way the Americans want to control Britain and Europe is probably one of the reasons why the EU stuck together and outvoted Cameroon.
Britain is obsessed with maintaining a ‘special US-UK relationship’ at the expense of maintaining ties with Europe.
America enjoys playing the ‘big brother bully’ to Britain in particular and EU countries in general.
Notwithstanding the reliance of Europe over Russia’s natural gas and oil, the USA was trying to bulldoze EU countries to impose economic sanctions on Russia over Ukraine and Crimea, prompting one commentator, Molchanov, to say: “The world can lose a million barrels a day from Iran, and it’s not especially painful.
“But if it lost 9 million barrels a day from Russia, there is no supply elsewhere that could fully compensate for that loss immediately.
“If Russian exports went to zero tomorrow, there would be a global oil crisis.”
Perhaps it’s time Britain stands up to America in the same way that she stood up to her last year when the Commons voted against military intervention in Syria.
For Zimbabweans in the UK, I think we have lessons to learn from what is happening here in the UK.
Only fools will believe that this false ‘paradise’ will last forever and make hay while the sun is still shining.
Hanzi zvinhu zviri kufaya?
Time will tell.