While we continue to educate many of our children in separate religious and sociopolitical schools how can we expect them to have the degree of understanding and tolerance of each other’s difference needed for us all to rub along together harmoniously?
As someone once sang “what we need is a great big melting pot ...”
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I've been instructed to go on a diversity course at work. That's all very well, but an integration course would be useful too. We need to highlight and encourage the similarities between people rather than the differences. Whilst acknowledging the bad things that have been done in the past by our country, we should also celebrate the good.
Absolutely. Life wold be very boring if all my friends had the same tastes and opinions as me. Rich diversity and plenty to enjoy, praise and tease about too. Gotta have a laugh.
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)."
I've been instructed to go on a diversity course at work.
I could do with one of those. Last time we went to the zoo I saw some Muslim chaps in the car park all kneeling down looking under the car. I said to the wife I better go over and see if I can help with anything which caused some confusion until she pointed out they were praying not broken down.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I had to order bird food earlier. I have loyalty points worth £4.45 with my usual supplier but they won't let me use them along with the 10% discount code from the GW magazine. I ended up shopping around and found the food elsewhere cheaper anyway. Loyalty points cost them my loyalty...
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
My OH heard a greengrocer on the radio saying that his European suppliers had refused his order as the fruit and vegetables were likely to rot while they were waiting in containers to get into the UK. It's all very well if we only check one in five shipments (you could smuggle in an invading army) to speed things up but the French won't be doing the same so if the container ships are full of our exports waiting to be checked and unloaded, they won't be available to carry our imports. Ps. Only one in five posts will be checked for mention of Brexit. The moratorium on c*ts remains.
Surely the leave campaigners would have realised that we'd require investment and exta costs etc for customs to keep things moving. It would be a fairly basic assumption. Makes you wonder how much chaos they're expecting if fruit that lasts for weeks on the supermarket shelf is going to rot in transit.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
This is the very scenario I discussed with folk before the vote. If you're a courier, importer of fruit and veg, do you think that process is going to be easier or more difficult if we leave? Do you think that process is going to helped, or hindered by French customs if we leave?
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As someone once sang “what we need is a great big melting pot ...”
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It's all very well if we only check one in five shipments (you could smuggle in an invading army) to speed things up but the French won't be doing the same so if the container ships are full of our exports waiting to be checked and unloaded, they won't be available to carry our imports.
Ps. Only one in five posts will be checked for mention of Brexit. The moratorium on c*ts remains.
If you're a courier, importer of fruit and veg, do you think that process is going to be easier or more difficult if we leave?
Do you think that process is going to helped, or hindered by French customs if we leave?