Prepping for Brexit thread

GreyQueen

IRL, I very rarely ever hear people talking about Brexit, although to hear the meeja you'd think it would be the subject of every convo, that folks would be limbering up to riot in the streets etc etc etc.


The sum total of Brexit related eavesdroppings in the past 30 days was an affluent retiree with a second home in France who was won quite a few euros betting with his other ex-pat neighbours that we wouldn't exit in March and two pensioner gents at a carboot sale.


The bootsale gents were remarking, with utter disdain, that we haven't anything approaching a statesman these days, in any party.


I suspect if the next general election ballot were to offer a candidate called None of the Above, they'd win by a landslide!


I'd suggest if folk find the tenor of the debate onerous that one tries switching off TV and radio and keeping up with events via print media. Without the facial expressions and verbal tone, our primate minds are much more able to process 'news' with dispassion.


Later today, I shall be allotmenteering and am already planning 2020's crops, the broad beans will be going into the ground mid-October as always. The world turns, politicians are a temporary nuisance like fleas.

gfplux

MingVase wrote: »

Other countries are not going to send perishables in lorries to sit in queues for 2 days though. So don't expect fresh fruit or salad veg. They will cancel all deliveries until we get our act together, they aren't going to waste their time and money.

Perfectly correct. Also when you consider these lorries cost near £200,000 (please correct me if any one knows more accurately) which probably exceeds the value of the load. Why would any company or owner driver have such expensive equipment just sitting locked in a que. It would be better and safer at the depot.

DigForVictory

Lest anyone work or have friends & relations who do, please remind them both that the Customs Intermediaries Grant Fund exists, & is paying out, first applicants first served. If better tech or staff training will help there is money to be asked for, til it’s gone.

Got to be worth a try?

DigForVictory

Work in UK-EU transport I should add.
Sorry to omit that critical nugget.

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<<The world turns, politicians are a temporary nuisance like fleas.>>

GQ that's the best definition of politicians I have heard for a long time
As I was driving home last night there was an hysterical announcer on my radio saying that the Prime Minister was going to make a statement on TV at 6.00p.m. To here his talk you would think that WW3 was about to break out .I got home just before 6.00 so I had a shufti. The BBC were there huffing and puffing as usual giveing their "unbiased " opinion then on came Laura somebody or other to say what she thought was going to happen in a few minutes. When eventually he came out he basically said he was going to do what he thought was best and what the country had voted for .In the background I could hear rent-a-mob baying for his head (they always come out when the weather is nice ,if it had been bucketing down you wouldn't have seen a soul ,probably including the PM:)) The meedja frenzy turned into high speed and I just got bored and turned it off .One good thing about my recent two week holiday was we watched virtually no TV for a fortnight,it was bliss .

JackieO xx

GreyQueen

Newscasters have to make a song-and-dance to justify their existance and their overwrought salaries.


I'm always intruiged by those who have time to demonstrate. If it's on a weekday, in business hours, and these people are of working age, why are they not working? And why do so many of 'em have identikit placards, flags, accessories? Are they being supplied, and accessoried, by Central Casting?


If I wanted to demonstrate in London (I don't) I'd have to get time off work, stump up for a bus or train ticket, travel several hours and then wave something made from cardboard and an old stick. Clearly not chic enough or dedicated enough, compared to these protestors.


I suspect many of them are as genuine as a six pound note!

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They're darned persistent though and the shouty bloke with the megaphone is always there shouting, I find it very off putting if the BBC are trying to conduct an interview outside (why outside?) and all I can hear is Mr. shouty man bellowing out his STOP BREXIT message over the words being spoken. Mind given the utter 'tosh' they are all spouting instead of answering questions, no matter which party they're from, maybe shouty man is more interesting anyway if a little repetitive.

silverwhistle

I'm surprised at your cynicism GQ - students, retirees, shift workers, non-working parents could all make it. I think we have a deeply disturbing political situation and when I see some of the comments on this thread it puts me in mind of frogs not noticing the water getting hotter. Many, many years ago I studied modern history and politics at university: never used it directly but it has given me some interesting perspectives.



On a small individual note, a friend who is on the same medication as myself mentioned in a phone call that she was having difficulty getting it, might have to change it slightly and I might like to consider putting in an early repeat prescription.

unrecordings

My repeat goes in tomorrow - I'm asking for 60 days, in March I got it, this time we'll see. Fortunately I've had a few dose changes over the last year so I'm good for steroids, and I've a little padding with my lower dose anti-seizure meds.

GreyQueen

Never be surprised by my cynicism, it's baked in the fires of experience. I've been a shift worker and the last thing we shift workers would have wanted to do in our limited free time was go on a flippin' demo. Jobs which run on shift work tend to be hard and tiring ones, frankly.



I notice that when demos are held in my city, about whatever subject, one tends to see the same old faces. Some of them are known to me personally - trustafarians with private incomes in some cases, aspirant local politicians in others.


Must go out and play with my RL pals now. Toodles xx.