In reply to arch:
> I hope you don't mind, but I've taken a screenshoot of this. Apart from the last line of your post, I'd like to think you may regret posting the rest of it.
I regret none of it, which in the fullness if time will not be what the outers feel.
Is there any part of my post which you particularly dislike or disagree with?
Ive read it again and I'll make it less verbose.
Old man, in his twilight years, makes statement about not being governed by Germany and votes to leave.
Ignoring his history for a moment, anyone with any sense of what the EU is and does and sees this as a rational reason for leaving has to be completely ignorant of the facts or delusional. Do you agree or not?
I watched a clip from a Channel 4 News trip to a northern town the morning after the vote (I wont name it through fear of insulting anyone). One guy said he has voted out to stop the Muslims coming to the UK. He said he was fine about the Europeans but he didnt want the Muslims - can you not see the tragic absurdity of that statement? This type of rational thought together with the sweet old man above, I fear, is not in isolation. To borrow parlance from this very town; If brains were dynamite, he'd have enough to blow off his hat.
I should add that you and I arent very different. I come from very working class stock, had very little as I grew up and am the first in my direct family line to attend uni, which I had to do during evening and weekend classes. This was whilst holding down a job and looking after a young family. My parents did their best but I didn't want to burden them going when I left school. So all remain voters are not elite middle class types.
My final word on this matter on any thread or SM post will be this. I voted in, not because im not patriotic or dont love my country but because the arguments I heard made more sense and I trusted the people more whom were making them, including the governer of our national bank, one of the brightest economic minds on the planet. I studied the options, thought long and hard about it from my generation's and my daughter's perspective and I came to my decision. It was hard and I almost wavered right at the end but on balance reckoned that whilst imperfect, being in was better than being out.
Some of the reasons we hear for leaving as we walk down an average high street just makes you realise that some people shouldn't have been allowed to vote on this issue.
I will now roll up my sleeves, try and be a little bit more productive than last week and hope, no pray (which is hard for a devout atheist) that I was wrong.
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