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Politics, Covid19 and Brexit
Please can we have another referendum
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<blockquote data-quote="Old McDonald" data-source="post: 5777952" data-attributes="member: 47276"><p>For many years I have described myself as an educated peasant. I have a peasant's outlook on life and fairly well live the life of one with a wee bit of spare cash for wine with dinner.</p><p></p><p>I know I have posted all this before, including a link to various Treaties, but I believe I was first informed about the founding Treaty at school. It was only 12 years after the end of WWII after all, and at a guess, I would say that about half of the masters had been in it - one had the MC that I recall. It was an all boys grammar school run by the County Council, not a private one.</p><p></p><p>My recollection was that some of these masters were very edgy about Germany being involved in a "club" of several States with a view to bringing them all together politically. It bothered me too and I sort of followed the goings on. I left school in 1960 but continued studying, initially subjects such as the British Constitution, Economics and a bit of political history. This was only at A level to permit me to move on to higher level studies in law whilst still working. </p><p></p><p>By the time of the first referendum I was totally convinced it was a bad idea for the UK, although a good one for most of mainland western Europe. I still hold that view, and I am conscious of the vast amount of EU money that has been poured into Portugal. We have a fantastic road and rail system for starters. I can travel at full permitted motorway speed to within a quarter mile of Lisbon airport 235kms away. The alternative is a very cheap rail journey and 10 mins in a taxi, or by underground which I have never used.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Old McDonald, post: 5777952, member: 47276"] For many years I have described myself as an educated peasant. I have a peasant's outlook on life and fairly well live the life of one with a wee bit of spare cash for wine with dinner. I know I have posted all this before, including a link to various Treaties, but I believe I was first informed about the founding Treaty at school. It was only 12 years after the end of WWII after all, and at a guess, I would say that about half of the masters had been in it - one had the MC that I recall. It was an all boys grammar school run by the County Council, not a private one. My recollection was that some of these masters were very edgy about Germany being involved in a "club" of several States with a view to bringing them all together politically. It bothered me too and I sort of followed the goings on. I left school in 1960 but continued studying, initially subjects such as the British Constitution, Economics and a bit of political history. This was only at A level to permit me to move on to higher level studies in law whilst still working. By the time of the first referendum I was totally convinced it was a bad idea for the UK, although a good one for most of mainland western Europe. I still hold that view, and I am conscious of the vast amount of EU money that has been poured into Portugal. We have a fantastic road and rail system for starters. I can travel at full permitted motorway speed to within a quarter mile of Lisbon airport 235kms away. The alternative is a very cheap rail journey and 10 mins in a taxi, or by underground which I have never used. [/QUOTE]
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