Preparedness for when

thriftwizard

Two quotes coming to mind here:

- No point in getting older if you don't get wiser
- I wasn't born yesterday

coming to mind

MTSTM, are you sure it's not The Way of Mrs Marietta Cosmopolite you're quoting there?

I'm not as green as I'm cabbage-looking...

GreyQueen

When confronted in person with ninnies, one can choose to make nee-naw noises.

When asked the reason why, tell 'em it's your B*ll***t Dectector going off.

I'm not bothering with listening to the meeja telling me the pros and cons for the next 3 months. My mind was made up many years ago and my decision is re-inforced on a daily basis by what I see around me.

[Deleted User]

I'm NEVER ever going to grow up, grown ups don't have any FUN!!! the years might say 68 but who cares, it's just a number!!!

Frugalsod

armyknife wrote: »

I think he's just confusing the s**** that is this big money, post-thatcherite wasteland with it being the EU's fault.

If the like of John Redwood, Iain Duncan Smith and their fellow travellers get their way and we become some sort of neo-casino capitalism playground island cast off in the mid-atlantic, then if you're poor or vulnerable god help you, because their 'logical' outcome for you is the return of the workhouse.

I do not think staying in the EU will enable us to avoid the neo liberal globalist agenda either way. You can see that from the treatment of Greece. I do think many of the laws that come from Europe have been good but it is the callousness of dealing with the bank debt which will be problematic.

Frugalsod

GreyQueen wrote: »

I'm not bothering with listening to the meeja telling me the pros and cons for the next 3 months. My mind was made up many years ago and my decision is re-inforced on a daily basis by what I see around me.

Mine was made up only recently when I saw how Greece was treated. It could so easily happen here with our banks. That was the decider for me. Otherwise I would have been pro staying in.

Like you I will avoid the media with its bias and watch what is happening in the real world before deciding finally. I do not see my support for exit as anyway being support for UKIP.

Nargleblast

With the EU referendum dominating the news for the next four months at least, we need to keep eyes and ears open for other news items that might get buried.

nuatha

Nargleblast wrote: »

With the EU referendum dominating the news for the next four months at least, we need to keep eyes and ears open for other news items that might get buried.

Like the closure of 20% of the courts and tribunals, £160 million cut from council health grants, the prosecution of student loan defaulters, and the expansion of Universal Credit, all buried by the announcement that Hunt was imposing a new contract on junior doctors.
News management is a skill that gets far too much practise.

Nargleblast

Didn't someone get into trouble on 11 September 2001, the day two planes crashed into the World Trade Centre, by saying "Today might be a good day to bury some bad news"....?

maryb

Re the point that younger voters don't bother because nothing changes.... this won't be a first past the post election based on constituencies. Every vote WILL count.

And a lot of middle class older women who are conservative (with a small c) are horrified by Cologne. Especially if they have daughters. It's one thing telling them not to go to North Africa on holiday but it strikes deep fear when you have to worry about them having a city break in Western Europe, irrational as that may be.

[Deleted User]

If we come out of the EU do you think it would be possible to get rid of the channel tunnel and actually go back to being an island again? One less route open to determined migrants of all kinds???