Preparedness for when

mardatha

Well... I suppose a lot depends on what you want out of it Ivy .
But the one thing that makes me happy today is that sooner or later politicians are forced to remember just who they are working for!

thriftwizard

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

It won't be quite a clean slate, too much political dogma for that but instead of gloom and doom and pessimism all round it MIGHT just be a new start. No it won't be as comfortable and as affluent as being in Europe would have been and perhaps, just perhaps that will be better for us as a nation than comfort and chocolate? Time to dust off those stiff upper lips, time to see we are strong as a people, time to see that we WILL make ourselves, by our OWN hard work, a different and more sensible world in the UK. It will require each one of us to pull whatever weight we have, to be part of the building and if it's sweat and tears that will make a future, we'll give freely because we're British!!!

Much what I've just said to a bunch of devastated 20-somethings. Now they're not speaking to me!

Just hope the sharks who are circulating out there will give us a chance to do just that...

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I'm sure I've got a recipe for SHARK SOUP somewhere THRIFTY!!! let 'em come, perhaps they'll increase the UK shark harvesting quota???

mardatha

Ok let's try a challenge.. A week's menus living only off stuff that can be grown or obtained in the UK. Pretend it's wartime lol and nothing gets in from Europe. Could you do it?

lillibet_dripping

I also have two very grumpy young adults in the house this morning! I'm wondering whether part of their anger is because they are so used to getting what they want, when they want it - and having it all. Suddenly, somebody has said 'no' to them and they are in shock?
DD has learnt very valuable lesson today. She was an undecided voter and I tried very hard not to sway her either way. Finally, she voted 'out' (which pleased me no end - her brother voted 'in'!). She's now spitting feathers saying she wished she had voted 'in' because she had just seen the clip of Farage saying that he couldn't guarantee the saved millions would go to the NHS and that it was a 'mistake' to say so in the first place. She's calling him all the names under the sun for being a lying politician - I smiled to myself quietly!!!

mrs-moneypenny

Just back from a school trip so been out of news range all day. Last I'd heard was David Cameron was about to resign. After that it was like I went into a vortex of some kind. No one has mentioned the referendum result all day. I was starting to question if it had happened. Just checked Twitter and it's full of youngsters moaning about how old people should have had no right to vote as they've now ruined their futures. I didn't want to feed the trolls and have them all on me so never responded to those. Concerning thing is there's now a rallying call for a second referendum so they can get the result they want.
I think leave were more optimistic than they were letting on last night when David Cameron was given that letter reminding him of his duty to stay on they were probably trying to make sure an interim leader was in place.
I hope everyone respects the majority decision of the nation and give the leave group time to get their plans in place.
I also think I know why Theresa May distanced herself from the referendum, she could wait for the leader to jump or get pushed then step in for either side claiming aliegence.

Mardatha, I'm up for your challenge. I try and where poss buy British and cook from scratch anyway.
Dh is addicted to Braeburn apples and I think they are currently imported so may need to consider a 'black market' source for those.
Just glad I bought 6 bottles of wine last week from Ts

GreyQueen

There's a kind of unconscious arrogance to youth. I remember it well. You think you know it all, and that anyone who is *gasp* middle-aged or downright wrinkly is but a short step from the grave and probably senile. And that only you and other youths have the right answers.

Oh dearie dearie me, how I cringe to remember some of the things I came out with at 18, 19 or 20 years old. And how, with another 30 years on their personal clocks, they will be cringing in their turn at the things they are saying and feeling today.:rotfl:

I'd say to any disaffected youngsters is that to remember that no one in Britain has ever had a right to vote on going into the EU. Quite unlike other EU countries. The middle-aged were children under 10 when we were taken into the common market and only two years older when people who are now pensioners (or deceased) were offered a choice to vote to stay or go from a 'common market' not a pan-European superstate which is what we're got lumbered with.

We were lied to and now we've called the liars out. This is like the British Spring, when the oppressed seek to hold their political masters to account. I guess the young are, in principle at least, in favour of the voices and wishes of the people being heard by the overclass?

Look at the positive side, youngsters! Less competition for housing will reduce rents and you may be able to afford to live away from mum and dad (and have more nookie ). Fewer people in the country should reduce house prices - you might be able to buy a house one day without selling a kidney or winning the lottery! Less competition in the workforce should raise your wages and increase your opportunities, are these not good things?

But yes, some of them may be suffering from special snowflake-ism and need a tap upside the head to remind them that it's not all about da kids. And that some of them are proper little twerps at that age.

mrs-moneypenny

I've just had a rather irate ds1 thrust his phone in my direction, showing various things that have gone wrong since the referendum, 4 of the 5 I'd already heard. It will take more than a day to get things running smoothly. I think he would be crowing rather loudly if the vote had gone his way instead of the way his parents have been willing it for years.

GreyQueen

Kids, hey? It's not 20 hours since the polls closed !!!!!!. Perhaps we could sit them down to talk to some old people so's they can get a sense of proportion and stop having hissy fits over trivia.

milasavesmoney

My OH thinks Cameron is a chicken s**t for leaving. He said its like a child who can't have his way so he takes his toys and goes home. OH thinks that a real leader would see the country through its first shaky steps of being an independent country again. He was throughly disgusted at what he sees as cowardice. (All this from a guy who never says anything about politics, but thinks that people should live up to their responsibities) I'll tell him, now that I have read many of your responses to Cameron resigning, that it's not being viewed as a bad thing.