Preparedness for when

COOLTRIKERCHICK

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

All in favour of cash GQ:) - actual physical money, rather than figures on a computer screen that have been "magicked up" into existence iyswim. Nothing there to "charge negative interest" on either:) if they decide to start pulling that stunt.

As long as that cash has had the relevant taxes, etc, paid on it when it was earnt.:)

Concept of "working class solidarity" - now that's a phrase I can see me pondering on in idle moments (like the next long bus-ride I have to take to get to something basic - like my dentist/bank/optician:rotfl:). Hmmm...:think:. I've heard of that one back in my trade union days and thought it just meant "trade unionists supporting other trade unionists when they were taking strike action"??? I hadn't realised it got used in other ways.

How long is the bus journey to get something basic??

COOLTRIKERCHICK

I have little stashes all over the place, including a pound coin in the little hand pull thing on the van door, this is for when I need a £ for the supermarket trolley..

I have a certain amount of cash in the vans/ cars just in case. For fuel top up( son is a monkey for giving them back to me with dregs of fuel lol)

Thanks for the link re TV license.. Going to see how it goes over the next week ..the way things are we need to live on thin air!!!

mardatha

Working class solidarity is the only weapon we have in the fight against bad govt - of whatever party. There are far far more of us than them, and therein lies the power. Just ask the French aristos.

GreyQueen

Morning all.

MTSTM, the upper echelons make no bones about us against them, and I am firmly one of Them. I speak like a BBC newscaster (it is often remarked upon) and am somewhat educated and somewhat cultured, and have a white collar job, but I never forget where I came from. Most of my family do very prosaic work such as lorry-driving, warehousing, labouring, factory production line, cleaning, shop work etc. Not so much the great unwashed as the great unseen and s**t upon by others. Hell, my Nan (92) was one of the last girls (at 14 y.o.) sent into domestic service before WW2 and she hated every minute of it.

Documents released under the 30 year rule revealed big cheeses in the Tory party were openly using the terms class warfare amongst themselves for what they were doing in the seventies and eighties. And the ideaology hasn't changed. Except that they crow that they've won.

If you clearly and absolutely understand that the powerful and wealthy are not the friends of the ordinary person, and actively have the worst interests of the majority at heart, much becomes comprehensible.

This is the real world, and the meek will inherit b*gger all, but only if the powerful decide to let them.:rotfl:

mardatha

Getting interested in the building anger in eastern Europe... sooner or later somebody is going start shooting. Too many migrants flooding all over the place and it's chaos.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

I should imagine the upper class/ elite find it hard to have ' true' friends theybprob only have acquaintances ..which they call ' chums'..and then its only for what they can gain from them..

fuddle

Working class solidarity? Can I give you an example in real every day terms?

I live in a reasonably well off area. Certainly the school run mothers on the whole have very nice cars and choose to use them to bring their children to school. Up to them, nothing to do with me. I, however, walk but because there is very little parking by the school the mothers park their cars amongst the houses near by. Where I live.

At the end of last week I was struggling to cross the road with my kiddies as I do every morning at 8.30. A lorry driver stopped his artic in the road, put his hand out for me to move, smiling. Parents on the other side didn't see this, weren't bothered by this and continued to pull in and out of the housing estate oblivious. The lorry driver got out of his cab and stood putting his up to stop the traffic. I spoke to say thanks very much and with my Northern accent I got a wink.

The experience just reinforced in my mind that working class folk are bludy brilliant. Just a little observation I thought I would share. Made my day

ivyleaf

I think I understand what you just said Mrs LW, though I had to read your post several times. Sorry, that sounds rude and I don't mean to be, but I wonder if you could find a way to re-word it?

GreyQueen

mardatha wrote: »

Getting interested in the building anger in eastern Europe... sooner or later somebody is going start shooting. Too many migrants flooding all over the place and it's chaos.

I'm finding Poland's attitude a bit hard to stomach, frankly. I believe that they have a much smaller population than the UK's in an area 5 times the UK's and hundreds of thousands of their nationals are already living in the UK. So they have some spare capacity, no?

Around here, we have an awful lot of Poles and other Eastern Europeans, you walk around on the streets in a constant bath of Eastern Eurpoean languages. Even small change on the pavement is likely to be zlotys.

My take on their home countries' reluctance to take in refugees is this; you can't have it both ways, pal. Either you are in the EU and your nationals have rights to live and work in other EU countries, and you take your share, or you can leave the EU and not take your share.

Wanting the perks and not some of the (potential) downsides is hypocritical, imo.

mardatha

But the Polish govt don't care what anybody thinks of their attitude... or the Serbs or the Hungarians. Eastern Europe tends to send the army and police onto the streets with guns first, then argue about it later..