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  1. Nice seemed such a happy, cosmopolitan place, bustling and full of sunshine and laughter...and now this horror.....so very sad.
  2. I also noticed that you stated earlier in one of your posts that it could be another twenty years before the UK would see any benefit from leaving the EU, and you would be eighty by then, so selfish, what about the next generations, what about our kids, do you not want a better world for them moving forward?? However I guess we have a different view of what is better, luckily, the majority share my view and won the referendum. The EU will soon be fast disappearing in the rear view mirror. —---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Same here, in fact I'll be 85 Like most pensioners we'll have less choices than the young to mitigate any negative changes...not withstanding we asked our adult children what they wanted to do - they voted in and so did we. One thing that concerns me greatly is that a downturn in tax receipts will mean that children's services are badly affected...for children with issues, help is already difficult and the help given needs to be timely....it's no good going back in twenty years and trying to stick a plaster on the problem, the damage will be done. Obviously I also worry for my children's jobs, and jobs in general neither of my children is in a sector that would obviously be at risk, but in a recession no job is safe...... Mrs May has abandoned George Osbornes fiscal policy of repaying the deficit ....that concerns me as I suspect some of her policies may increase our debt for generations to come.. I don't think any of these things are selfish.
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  4. I know plenty of under thirties too, thanks. And my son is only 31 Many just have different priorities.....or do you think people make it up ? Ok, some don't but equally not every one has a private pension I also have a friend reliant on a state pension and HB. She has already had to choose between heating and eating - just what would you like her to cut ?
  5. Frankly I think you just have to deal with what hand you are dealt - when we were paying huge interest on our mortgage we could have railed against those getting substantial interest on their savings...its pointless. But I don't feel to blame - we got on with whatever life threw at us and made the best we could in the circumstances....we can't go backward
  6. Every generation has its challenges - my school would have liked me to stay on but as their reason seemed to be so that I could be a teacher I left ! Most children now have the option of uni, expensive though it is...if they are passionate they can do it. (although personally I think costs are too high atm ) As far as house purchase, we had to wait and queue for a mortgage and then to add to our chances we had to have an endowment which of course for many people didn't pay out anywhere near enough to cover the amount they hoped. Like Norman we paid pretty close to 16% in interest...we had no holidays for many years and my OH had two jobs most of our married life.. (and no company pension )at one time we had 7 jobs between us - no foreign holidays, no designer labels, no wardrobe of shoes or handbags, mobile phones or sky contracts all things which younger people seem to want in addition to a house. The first day we took possession of our house we had nothing but a mattress and bedding, we looked in the local paper and found a second hand cooker and my mother in laws next door neighbour by chance changed her three piece suite that day and let us have her old seating units. Later my mothers neighbour offered us her old suite (which was very solid ) These days the idea of second hand seems to horrify many younger people. Whatever we have we worked for. So while I'm sorry for younger people and know its difficult (we have a daughter madly saving for a house right now ) I don't actually feel to blame.
  7. You may have done Wooly, it didn't feel like that to me at the time......
  8. These days the only way I can make quotes is by logging in via Firefox...the mods have agreed for a long time and reported it at various times too..... Sorry we can' t help with this... And even sorrier about the referendum result...I swear if one more person on Facebook tells me to 'suck it up' or 'we are all in this together' I won't be responsible for my actions :-(
  9. >>Now the country is flooded with people from overseas, most of who will vote remain
  10. Yes! rather like Boris 's Independence Day closer last night - it's all icing and no cake.....too many clever remarks and not enough substance... Ebaynut, rest assured If Boris and Trump triumph we'll make a special thread for you to deal with complaints ;-)
  11. Ebaynut: just thought you would like to see one of yesterday's Trumps tweets : I am "the king of debt."That has been great for me as a businessman, but is bad for the country. I made a fortune off of debt, will fix U.S. 5:55 PM - 21 Jun 2016 Such a glowing reference - would you really want a man who made his fortune out of debt and at the cost of employees and government, running the country ?
  12. That's all well and good if we could just morph seamlessly from one system to the other - the fact is that we can't and law changes on their own could take years - the Good Friday agreement, for instance, written in terms assuming we would both parties would be in the EU. It's OK Michael Howard saying that UK law would prevail - do you think that would go down well with all parties to that agreement ? All the Scottish agriculture and fisheries policy would default to Edinburgh not Westminster in the event of Brexit, how would that go ? How long do you think fishermen would stick to current agreements if they weren't bound by the EU ? In the meantime we would be losing those companies that are here because its a condition of their contracts that they are based in the EU. Then there are the science and pharma research industries, both of which are dreading an out vote...... Reading the stats I posted earlier, its likely that older people will vote out - so those that have their lives sorted, their money in the bank, or not, as the case may be, could prevail and risk the jobs, careers and futures of those younger. In addition the likelihood is that we would move dangerously to the right politically - Boris would like us to pay for the NHS, Gove thinks we need to follow the American model. Farage has yet to be elected...to anything except the EU where he hardly covered himself in glory.... As for political dynasty's - I happen to like both Stephen Kinnock and Hilary Benn, probably more than their parents, as it happens BTW any house wife 'sur le continent' knows that instruction manuals come in multiple languages including Chinese and have done for many years......maybe industry should try the same ;-)
  13. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36579597
  14. https://news.liverpool.ac.uk/2016/06/20/eu-law-expert-responds-industrial-dishonesty-video-goes-viral You are right, it is excellent, just factual not biased but it shows where the UK may be at the end of the week and what we may have to come....
  15. I agree' but I don't think coming out will necessarily be the answer, at least not for some time...and no time scale is even guessed at. Like you I suspect that responsibility for failures in UK government is being conveniently moved to the the EU.....just as some don't know the difference between the European Court of a Human Rights and the EU, others don't recognise the difference in government and EU responsibilities.
  16. Ah Andy, the Brexit group only say the savings 'could' buy new hospitals, they don't actually say they will build them....and I doubt they could afford the sort of plans they speak of after they have paid for beefed up security at the French and Irish borders ( and probably Scottish in the fullness of time ) And of course they will have to replace the EU grants those in the North of Scotland, North of Ireland, Wales and Cornwall will be losing. And why is it that two of the countries we'd suddenly be free to do deals with, India and China, have Prime Ministers who would prefer us to stay in.....?
  17. Could it be Ebaynut ' that for all the years Trump was in the public eye people just thought of him as something of a comedy turn, multiple publicity ridden marriages, failed businesses, big mouth etc...it only matters that he is racist when he decides he wants to become President ? As for illegal immigrants, as far as I can see if we leave the EU this will get worse not better. Legal immigrants come here to work and better themselves, pay their taxes and insurance and help pay toward our public services. The problem of having full schools and not enough NHS funding is one of UK government, not the EU.
  18. Thank you for your co operation
  19. As a moderator may I respectfully request that as a mark of respect for murdered MP Jo Cox there are no further postings on this thread until after 1pm tomorrow ( the 17th) , 24 hours after the attack which resulted in the loss of her life. Thank you
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  21. With the washing machine and other labour saving devices I think we have shot ourselves in the foot, instead of taking advantage of the leisure they were supposed to give we have filled the time with more work.....
  22. Chessie, I agree with you and am pretty sure that some one cleverer than me could prove it with statistics..... Yes, automatic washing machines etc. are wonderful inventions, but they were suppose to give us more leisure - instead we just try and cram more and more in to our days....we have changed direction but I'm not sure all of it is really 'progress'...
  23. Quite... However lots of young Mums I see post on social media seem to have little choice, or think they don't...they'd like to stay at home but don't think they can afford it....  
  24. The number of children per carer has probably improved which makes things more expensive....and there are lots of rules and regs - for instance each child has like a daily diary kept (well that's what my god daughter who is a Montessori trained nanny at a nursery tells me ) If you have more than one child at full time nursery you are looking at around £2000 a month out of your net pay - Ok there are vouchers etc., but in some cases I doubt there's much left over to go toward the mortgage... When my son was a baby and my daughter was at nursery I did things like Tupperware and Avon to fit in, then when he went to nursery I did merchandising and delivering property papers to Estate agents, plus had a team of paper boys and girls who delivered the local weekly rag and collected the money......we managed.....  
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