EU Vote

[John Wheat]

Hi Julie

Enjoy your concert.

Maybe Cameron simply thought that he could fix it. The revolt of 'the great unwashed' seems to have come as rather a shock to him.

Is that the same revolt lead by Boris Johnson?

[Pierre]

I feel more like the Prisoner now, in our self-imposed solitary confinement, with Boris as Number Two.

Love,

Caz
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Hi Caz,

Whatever happens Great Britain will always be a part of Europe.

Remember the struggle of Greece, when the country was bleeding, to stay within the EU and to try and improve the criteria of the terrible referendum.

Greece is poor and has a long history of war and problems. But it has always been the cradle of Europe. Europe started with the Greek democracy in the ancient times.

If a poor country like Greece can survive, Great Britain will easily survive.

Great Britain will always be an important part of Europe, together with Greece and all our countries.

Here is a happy song by our great Greek artist Γιώργος Νταλάρας (George Dalaras). I hope it will bring you and others here comfort.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OucGKowvFZs

Kind regards, Pierre

[Graham]

Possibly not but then again I am dyslexic. Which might have something to do with my poor English. Also I take it you're a fan of the over privileged Greek Germans we call The Royal Family.

Cheers John

No

Graham

[Geddy2112]

Appalling English, if I may make so bold as to say so. All the lolly the EC is supposed to have spent on our education system doesn't seem to have filtered down to you.

Graham

Likewise..

'Appalling English, if I may be so bold as to say. All the lolly the EC is supposed to have spent on our education system doesn't seem to have filtered down to you.'

Fixed

[Robert]

Hi Julie

Enjoy your concert.

Maybe Cameron simply thought that he could fix it. The revolt of 'the great unwashed' seems to have come as rather a shock to him.

[John Wheat]

Appalling English, if I may make so bold as to say so. All the lolly the EC is supposed to have spent on our education system doesn't seem to have filtered down to you.

Graham

Possibly not but then again I am dyslexic. Which might have something to do with my poor English. Also I take it you're a fan of the over privileged Greek Germans we call The Royal Family.

Cheers John

[Graham]

I wouldn't have thought they care they will get richer now and would have got richer had Britain remained in the EU. The Royal Family always make sure there alright.

Appalling English, if I may make so bold as to say so. All the lolly the EC is supposed to have spent on our education system doesn't seem to have filtered down to you.

Graham

[Limehouse]

No Julie, it's not inappropriate and I hope you have a nice weekend.

I don't know whether Osborne is still going to implement his 'wailing and gnashing of teeth' budget, which he assured us would be vital for the national interest if we voted to leave. Presumably he will, since he is an honest man.

Hi Robert, nice to catch up with you again. You have a good weekend too. We are going up to Derby tomorrow to see a band called 'Sinnerboy' who are a very classy Rory Gallagher tribute act. It will be nice to get away from the referendum fall-out.

Osborne has been very quiet today, considering the dire warnings he was delivering last week. One wonders why Cameron offered us a referendum, considering the harm he and Osborne think it will do to the country and the economy. I mean, why didn't he say 'if you elect my government, I will offer you a referendum on Europe, but, mark my words, the economy will fail, all your pensions will evaporate and everyone in the world will hate us'.

The next few weeks will be very interesting.

[John Wheat]

Any word yet from the Royals on this decision?

I wouldn't have thought they care they will get richer now and would have got richer had Britain remained in the EU. The Royal Family always make sure there alright.

[Robert]

Not as far as I'm aware. They're not supposed to comment. And let's face it, they'd be crazy to do so, as they'd end up being hated by one side or the other.

[Pcdunn]

Any word yet from the Royals on this decision?

[Robert]

No Julie, it's not inappropriate and I hope you have a nice weekend.

I don't know whether Osborne is still going to implement his 'wailing and gnashing of teeth' budget, which he assured us would be vital for the national interest if we voted to leave. Presumably he will, since he is an honest man.

[Robert]

The BBC were not pushing for the leave position though.

You can say that again, John.

[John Wheat]

Well, the BBC should be independent but they still take EU money.

The BBC were not pushing for the leave position though.

[Limehouse]

I voted Remain, and until about an hour ago thought that the UK electorate had made a big mistake. However, on reflection, I'm not so sure. I remember very well Edward Heath when Prime Minister pushing for all he was worth to get us into the EEC, as it then was. I voted against joining (the vote at the time was 2 to 1 in favour of joining). I always felt, as did zillions of others, that joining the EEC was Ted Heath's personal crusade - after all, he did precious little else for the UK, apart from screwing us up with his disastrous Industrial Relations Act and his god-damned Three Day Week. I voted against him at the 1974 General Election, which as expected was won by Harold Wilson's Labour party. Heath in my humble opinion was the worst PM this country ever had, with the possible exception of Callaghan. Anyway, I had an e-mail a short time ago from my friend in Holland, who said that the general feeling on the streets there is 'three cheers and good luck' to the UK! There is, he said, a big undercurrent of anti-EU feeling in Holland, and it's getting stronger, as it is in other EU countries including France and Italy.

I've been thinking what has being in the EU for 43 years done for me as (a) an individual; (b) as a member of my local community; (c) as an employee of a British company until my retirement. Answer: not a lot. At least, nothing tangible other than to swamp my former employer with red tape. Another thing: earlier today the City Slickers were lining up on window ledges ready to jump because the FTSE100 had fallen 8% or so; yet it's back up almost to what it was this time last week. Plus, the Japanese Nikkei Index has fallen 8% over the last day or so. Has Japan left the EU as well, then?

So far, the only country to have left the EEC/EU is Greenland, and they seem to have done all right, all 75 of them. And Robert - re: your post, I was no fan of Gordon Brown but you are absolutely correct in what you say about his refusal to join the Euro.

I thank you.

Graham

Hi Graham,

I found it terribly difficult to make a decision about whether to vote 'leave' or 'remain'. There were lies and scaremongering on both sides of the debate and political parties normally united on these types of issue were firmly divided.

I really wish Cameron had never offered us a referendum. We are a Representative Democracy, not a Direct Democracy and as such we are poorly equipped to make this sort of decision. A referendum is not even legally binding in the country and Cameron could well have ignored the outcome and carried on regardless.

Nigel and Boris are claiming to have put the 'great' back into Great Britain, but now it looks as though Scotland and possibly Northern Ireland will leave the union because they want to stay in the EU. Even if they don't leave the union, the nation is divided, anxious and fretful and all I can hear is the nauseating braying of those who backed 'leave' because they were listening to Boris and Nigel, and the guilty regretful gulps of those who voted 'leave' because of completely different reasons. The majority of the 'remain' camp are sad and dejected and a few, like yourself, are pragmatic and reflective.

Is it inappropriate to wish people a good weekend?

Julie