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Response to auntpurl (Reply #8)

Wed Jun 15, 2016, 09:16 AM

9. I sympathise.

 



I have met a few people who support Leave but they could all be described
as either "Too young to have noticed the real world issues" or "Old enough to
fondly remember the Empire (and, in some cases, fought for it)".


> The economy is going to react. FTSE was down by over 100 points yesterday.

The Forex traders must be salivating like it was 1992 all over again ...


> Re: your children, unless they were hoping for jobs as builders, rubbish collectors,
> house cleaners, or carers, it's unlikely the Eastern Europeans are taking jobs
> they really wanted, isn't it?

Not quite but that smacks of the Niemöller quote doesn't it? ("First they came for the ..."

I'll just leave it at that but perhaps the "Leave" campaign has been raising support
from some of the very people who "really wanted" jobs that are below the eyelevel
of the "Remain" supporters and that's why we're getting caught by surprise?


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