Brexit: the referendum

My mother had her weekly hair appointment this morning. All the old ladies have voted to leave. They and my mother are certain it's a foregone conclusion.
Apparently young people (Anyone below 55) are too young to know how good things were before we joined. British cars, British food, British clothes and all cheap. Plus only a few hard working darkies who knew their place and didn't own all the corner shops.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
My mother had her weekly hair appointment this morning. All the old ladies have voted to leave. They and my mother are certain it's a foregone conclusion.
Apparently young people (Anyone below 55) are too young to know how good things were before we joined. British cars, British food, British clothes and all cheap. Plus only a few hard working darkies who knew their place and didn't own all the corner shops.
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The elderly have always had a problem with the concept of inflation.
 
Information Analyst said:
The elderly have always had a problem with the concept of inflation.
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Some of the elderly.

The sort who get asked for vox pops, especially on TV news in the Southeast when I was a kid/teenager - I swear almost every one ended with them lamenting that it wasn't like the Biltz where everyone pulled together and then sang, "knees up mother Brown"; TVS and Meridian, I haven't forgiven you for the stupid, 25 years later.

I do think a lot of it is to do with health etc.

I can imagine that it could be difficult for one to separate being young and fit and generally having a good time from the idea that despite that, the world wasn't that good for many, and indeed is better for one than if it hadn't changed, except for one growing old.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
My mother had her weekly hair appointment this morning. All the old ladies have voted to leave. They and my mother are certain it's a foregone conclusion.
Apparently young people (Anyone below 55) are too young to know how good things were before we joined. British cars, British food, British clothes and all cheap. Plus only a few hard working darkies who knew their place and didn't own all the corner shops.
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Depending on the situation people kept telling me I don't know how things were so good before and we should all decide to forgoe progress go back to the golden time of plenty, and in other I was told I did not know how good I have it, because them, they had wars eat rutabaga, and went uphill both way to school or whatever.

After a while I jsut shrug it off and ignore anybody comparing to the long past.
 
The Don said:
I get the feeling that there are a lot of people who feel that something needs to be done, Brexit is something so let's do - without any clear idea as to how Brexit would help.
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Aye. The 'formless protest against something-or-other'.
 
catsmate said:
It seems that the more delusional fringe of Leave supporters are spreading a nutty conspiracy theory about pencils...

:boggled:
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Police were called to one polling station because a Brexit supporter was inside offering the use of her pen. (I kid you not, let your fingers do the walking).

I'd laugh, but it's surprising how many people are blissfully unaware of the law when it comes to Polling Stations.

My local newspaper made a post on Facebook suggesting readers take selfies of themselves on the way to vote, wearing their Union Flag/ EU stars garb.
I politely informed them that that's a big no no.
 
The Don said:
I hope so in the event of a Brexit vote. Then it'd be interesting to see how the English protect the border. I can see passport control on the Severn bridges but I'm not sure whether there are enough border agency staff to have a checkpoint on Brockweir bridge, Tintern bridge and so on. The main road from Chepstow (Wales) to Monmouth (Wales) passes through England so a trip to Waitrose would involve four border crossings :D
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At least with Scotland,they already have a Wall.....
 
Hadrians Wall?

It's in England, why would we give away half of Northumberland and Cumbria?
 
I'm going to bend over and take my six of the best here.

I DAMN NEAR FORGOT TO VOTE!

Just had to nip down to the polling station to vote as I luckily remembered amongst the 1000000001 things that were on my mind today I'd missed one.

Unbelievable really. No excuse. If Bojo won I'd only have myself to blame.

I didn't see anyone persuading me how to vote, not even a Brexiter reminding me to use a pen so MI5 can't change my vote - which apparently is doing the rounds on Twitter today.
 
As the resident old fart, and a stickler for rules, (except for makey uppy forum rules):
BBC News from 9:55pm (or BBC1) is when the five hour fun starts.
 
Question time: Can really citizen of Republic of Ireland or Commonwealth vote in this referendum? (Heard it in Czech TV and "European Union
Referendum Act 201"5 section 2, subsection 2 seems to confirm it)
 
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