But maybe ... if it had been talked about before the vote the result might have been different ... is the UK football fan an influential sector of the Brexit demographic I wonder?
But yes, our eyes glazed over and we turned the radio down and watched and listened to the buzzards out of the window ....
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
But maybe ... if it had been talked about before the vote the result might have been different ... is the UK football fan an influential sector of the Brexit demographic I wonder?
Someone would have turned up shouting 'Project Fear'. Those that didn't want to listen still would not have heard
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
As you all know , I'm a HUUUUUGE sports fan, NOT. Maybe if English football teams focused more on home grown talent , that might be a good thing? And who knows , maybe after Brexit, those from overseas might not be able to avoid paying income tax in this country? Just a thought? If you think the football thing was overlooked prior to the vote, most in Cornwall ( The county which receives more money from EU than any other ) who voted leave were surprised to find their farm/ Road/ Infrastructure subsidies from EU would NOT carry on and were mildly surprised , to say the least , that Westminster won't match them.
Yes Hosta but someone from the guverment shoodaa told em before so it's all deir fault. The time honoured phrase "be careful what you wish for" springs to mind as does "the law of unintended consequences"
Yes Hosta but someone from the guverment shoodaa told em before so it's all deir fault. The time honoured phrase "be careful what you wish for" springs to mind as does "the law of unintended consequences"
and folk asking the right question the day AFTER the vote and not before. I can't begin to tell you how many folk I've spoken to who think that Westimster will cough up. My reply is usually along the lines of " if successive governments in Westminster gave ( to use pansyface's line ) "a flying ferret's fart" about the West Country, Cornwall would never have had to hold out the begging bowl to Brussels in the first place"
One has to wonder if all this is a triumph of optimism over sense or just plain dim-wittedness. Surely nobody who has followed current affairs for ten minutes, let alone ten years, would think this was ever going to work.
I don't believe that. Cornwall is basically a suburb of London now. All those ministers aren't going to let the roads degrade around their second (or third) homes. Come to my borough where we have the highest council tax in Wales and no services to show for it. Everything here is EU funded and still everyone voted to leave. Of course we'll be rolling in money after Brexit, assuming the Welsh Government can pry any money out of Westminster after they've spend it all on vanity projects in London, and assuming WAG don't then spend it on vanity projects in Cardiff...
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Their is a group who have found if they shout long and loudly enough then what they say becomes "fact" in that lots of people end up agreeing with them no matter what lies they promote. Those that were duped into thinking this was best then get very irate when you dare suggest that they didn't know what they were voting for.
Happily for me I no longer get the Today programme and I find my morning start a lot less grumpy - coffee in bed if I'm lucky and cuddles with at least one of the kitties and then get moving.
Not getting started on Brexit. It's way beyond curmudgeonly territory.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
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But yes, our eyes glazed over and we turned the radio down and watched and listened to the buzzards out of the window ....
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
If you think the football thing was overlooked prior to the vote, most in Cornwall ( The county which receives more money from EU than any other ) who voted leave were surprised to find their farm/ Road/ Infrastructure subsidies from EU would NOT carry on and were mildly surprised , to say the least , that Westminster won't match them.
The time honoured phrase "be careful what you wish for" springs to mind as does "the law of unintended consequences"
I can't begin to tell you how many folk I've spoken to who think that Westimster will cough up. My reply is usually along the lines of " if successive governments in Westminster gave ( to use pansyface's line ) "a flying ferret's fart" about the West Country, Cornwall would never have had to hold out the begging bowl to Brussels in the first place"
Not getting started on Brexit. It's way beyond curmudgeonly territory.