tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8802206289996500659.post1556687412525206156..comments2024-03-27T13:34:10.184+00:00Comments on NORTH DOWNS & BEYOND: "I'm going to pick up my binoculars and walk out the front door - I may be some time"Steve Galehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09459545933323958452noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8802206289996500659.post-2417201384524525882016-07-21T22:22:27.609+01:002016-07-21T22:22:27.609+01:00Lets have an update on what has actually happened ...Lets have an update on what has actually happened since this vote.<br />In the cold light of day, some of the reactions were down right embarrassing.<br />Hasn't exactly resulted in the end of the world.<br />As for the opportunities lost to their children. I didn't see any protests when the idea of charging their children for their university courses was made a reality.<br />The agricultural environment EU hand outs for farmers weren't required before we joined the then Common market. It was because of the EU that farmland species have taken such a hit in the first place.<br />Richttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02714117508358025668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8802206289996500659.post-61376022818243918662016-07-02T07:10:28.021+01:002016-07-02T07:10:28.021+01:00Paul and Chris. Thank you for your contributions.Paul and Chris. Thank you for your contributions.Steve Galehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09459545933323958452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8802206289996500659.post-46443551281424881032016-06-29T23:18:08.983+01:002016-06-29T23:18:08.983+01:00Dear Steve (and other commentators),
You have writ...Dear Steve (and other commentators),<br />You have written many wonderful posts in this blog, but for me, this is the most poignant. The EU has many faults and there are genuine issues that the mainstream political parties seem bent on ignoring. However, my research at Sussex University into Alzheimer's disease is funded by a £1M grant from the EU (the UK benefits disproportionately from EU research funding - getting out far more than it puts in). The turtle doves, yellowhammers, yellow wagtails, corn buntings, etc. that breed in my corner of Sussex would not be there without the agri-environment EU schemes given to farmers. Your post summarises some of the many other benefits we have enjoyed from being an EU member. And what do we gain by leaving? Not prosperity, not safety, not "control of our borders", not extra funding for the NHS. The only immediate effect I've noticed is an increase in racism.<br />Thanks for an excellent blog.<br />Kind regards, Chris Bird<br /> Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15602253164012642017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8802206289996500659.post-84463023011540373032016-06-28T20:33:59.644+01:002016-06-28T20:33:59.644+01:00Hi Steve, I know I`m a bit late to the party, but ...Hi Steve, I know I`m a bit late to the party, but I`d just like to reiterate you`ve got it spot on. We`ve been let down badly by the lies spun on both sides of the debate, particularly by the politicians who are now infighting like a pack of rats because they have no Plan B in place. It sickens me to see the increase in Union flags fluttering from flag poles down here since the Brexit vote as the Little Englanders stick two metaphorical fingers up to Europe. Goodness only knows what the future holds for our young uns. All the best, Paul Paul Troddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03532050770282573211noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8802206289996500659.post-53078875553194734542016-06-27T10:29:11.528+01:002016-06-27T10:29:11.528+01:00Thank you for all of your commentsThank you for all of your commentsSteve Galehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09459545933323958452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8802206289996500659.post-87958813667424123322016-06-27T07:52:44.054+01:002016-06-27T07:52:44.054+01:00I was also angry at the Referendum Steve but from ...I was also angry at the Referendum Steve but from a different perspective. It is a clear political failure to put our relations with the EU as a binary choice to the people. On the one hand voting to leave gives us all the problems we currently see, but staying gives the green-light to the full EU superstate and the complete loss of democracy and disastrous economic policies that we have seen unfold for many countries. Given that choice there was only place to put my cross for me and that was to leave. <br /><br />Apparently the young are upset by this, so I will through these comments formally apologise to the young people of Britain for depriving them of the living standards, job opportunities, and democratic rights currently enjoyed by young people in Greece, Spain, Italy, France ...DorsetDipperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11612884207485991011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8802206289996500659.post-60412132170710143942016-06-27T05:25:36.683+01:002016-06-27T05:25:36.683+01:00Well said Derek! Well said Derek! Gill Osbornehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13075986162799564590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8802206289996500659.post-54350954416322392672016-06-25T22:43:57.389+01:002016-06-25T22:43:57.389+01:00A great Kipling poem (via the Guardian today) that...A great Kipling poem (via the Guardian today) that seems rather apt for the Brexit leaders:<br /><br /> The Dead Statesman<br /><br />I could not dig; I dared not rob:<br />Therefore I lied to please the mob.<br />Now all my lies are proved untrue<br />And I must face the men I slew.<br />What tale shall serve me here among<br />Mine angry and defrauded young?Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10289405027710339067noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8802206289996500659.post-69504420970468094122016-06-25T21:09:37.351+01:002016-06-25T21:09:37.351+01:00Some might say we got our country back but I do no...Some might say we got our country back but I do not feel like it is my country anymore.<br /><br />https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/131215Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15108417673119719006noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8802206289996500659.post-69192261617586965462016-06-25T14:33:00.511+01:002016-06-25T14:33:00.511+01:00This comment has been removed by the author.laurence.dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18150037681026689740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8802206289996500659.post-7489194510222797512016-06-25T14:32:37.003+01:002016-06-25T14:32:37.003+01:00That,s the sentiments of the past,,extreme bittern...That,s the sentiments of the past,,extreme bitterness with no good reason, luckily the younger forward looking generation will be rid of that through natural wastage,I only hope something can be salvaged for them ,the ones who don,t have wealthy parents to set them up in life.laurence.dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18150037681026689740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8802206289996500659.post-66612732100986631352016-06-25T10:05:07.711+01:002016-06-25T10:05:07.711+01:00Well this well off 69 year old is still certain th...Well this well off 69 year old is still certain that by voting Leave that he has done the right thing. Having watched that spineless git Cameron jack in straight after the Referendum, because he didn't want to do the hard work that he was voted in to do by the British public, I'm even more glad that I did it. There's gonna be a lot like that now, seeing their nice comfortable gravy train life in the EU come to an end and therefore leaving the rest of us behind while they swan off somewhere else to make their easy money. I'm not sure where the EU came into the easy life that you allege that I had to get to 69 but I do recall working my butt off for 40+ years, never being unemployed, never taking a penny in state handouts, (unlike many work-shy teenagers these days), and paying a mortgage interest rate of 15% in the early 90's. Germany and France led the EU and were almost governing this country and I'm glad to be shot of them.Derek Faulknerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05140363868104172311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8802206289996500659.post-61207732144081622802016-06-25T07:58:37.681+01:002016-06-25T07:58:37.681+01:00Steve, I am ashamed of my generation who have take...Steve, I am ashamed of my generation who have taken the benefits of an admittedly imperfect EU, yet vote to take it all away from our children and grandchildren!Ploddingbirderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06622485302669950415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8802206289996500659.post-60618859226013505642016-06-24T21:38:56.308+01:002016-06-24T21:38:56.308+01:00It is a scandal. I cannot contemplate the opportun...It is a scandal. I cannot contemplate the opportunities my children will no longer have. Well put.Jonathan Lethbridgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12791327377479687655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8802206289996500659.post-667682159689030042016-06-24T20:52:41.451+01:002016-06-24T20:52:41.451+01:00This comment has been removed by the author.laurence.dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18150037681026689740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8802206289996500659.post-2528765305860539122016-06-24T20:47:41.365+01:002016-06-24T20:47:41.365+01:00Thanks Steve,for putting into words exactly how I ...Thanks Steve,for putting into words exactly how I feel about this tragedy too .laurence.dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18150037681026689740noreply@blogger.com