Very funny. The Pythons knitted together old yarns.
@nannybeach, we can all be manipulated. I did say it was tricky wading through the disinformation. I'm the first to admit that I found the referendum tricky. It wasn't an easy decision for me at the time.
It's amazing really that there wasn't an avalanche of well curated information given that it was in the offing for months if not years. A post Brexit plan would have been nice before, let alone after a leave vote. It's all been very insulting for us plebiscites. Not to mention other interconnected nations/businesses. I now feel pretty disenfranchised and more apathetic (through despondency) than ever.
A friend witnessed outright racism in a pub in London the other night. Two lads that were unruly proceeded to tell the bar staff that they weren't welcome in this country any more after the UKRef.
I think that a huge part of the problem nowadays is the widening gap between the rich and poor in the UK.
The life style and life experience of a pretty large portion of society is a long way removed from that of the rest of the country, and it has been proved that social mobility nowadays is getting worse rather than better. This has lead to a large 'underclass' who feel totally alienated .......... in the past in other countries this has lead to revolution ....
I don't think the gap is really so very different from how it was in the not-so-recent past. The difference is that people now feel more confident/arrogant (choose whichever suits!) because of relatively recent legislation etc which protects workers' rights and so on. It's less than a century since women were enfranchised - not exactly insignificant - and because of modern-day communication, rebelliousness can grow and possibly become uncontrolled far faster than was the case only a few decades ago.
Not a totally bad thing, but - like many other issues - there are what you could call "pros" and "cons" - as always!
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http://www.thepoke.co.uk/2016/06/30/revealed-inspiration-behind-michael-gove-attempt-clap/
Went to a service at Lincoln Castle for the 1 million plus casualties at the Ballte of the Somme 1916
thats what happens when people/counties fall out !
Very funny. The Pythons knitted together old yarns.
@nannybeach, we can all be manipulated. I did say it was tricky wading through the disinformation. I'm the first to admit that I found the referendum tricky. It wasn't an easy decision for me at the time.
It's amazing really that there wasn't an avalanche of well curated information given that it was in the offing for months if not years. A post Brexit plan would have been nice before, let alone after a leave vote. It's all been very insulting for us plebiscites. Not to mention other interconnected nations/businesses. I now feel pretty disenfranchised and more apathetic (through despondency) than ever.
A friend witnessed outright racism in a pub in London the other night. Two lads that were unruly proceeded to tell the bar staff that they weren't welcome in this country any more after the UKRef.
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Wayside, I wonder if the two lads would say the same to a paramedic of the same nationality scraping them off the road.
Sadly Hosta, they probably would.
Many times I saw foreign nurses abused.
Sadly recent events, seem to have brought the worst out of a small number [ hopefully minority ] of people.
Troubled times, keep gardening.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Like the patient asking his radiographer when he was leaving....
How tempted must he have been just to 'up' the dose...
'Help, help, there's been a terrible accident...'
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...