Off Topic The Politics Thread

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Should the UK remain a part of the EU or leave?

  • Stay in

    Votes: 56 47.9%

  • Get out

    Votes: 61 52.1%
  • Total voters
    117
  • Poll closed .
I must say we are living in some weird political times. Trump/Putin/China/Brexit/Anti-semitism/SNP/Climate. I miss the boring years of Thatcher. :emoticon-0105-wink:
 
kiwiqpr said:
Unless it's Irish scottish or welsh
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Yeah its always fab to celebrate St Patricks day.. plenty of Irish flags in all the pubs (which I have no problem with) but if you dare to celebrate St Georges day you are some racist.
 
West WindsR said:
Yep nobody knows anything about things that happened before they were born.
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Well that's not actually correct but sometimes living in those times gives you a better idea than some politically driven book you had at school. We refer back to Goldies Age/experience quote.
 
ELLERS said:
Well that's not actually correct but sometimes living in those times gives you a better idea than some politically driven book you had at school. We refer back to Goldies Age/experience quote.
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Yeah they were always banging on about Thatcher when I was at school. You silly ****.
 
I remember reading a book about Australia before I moved there. It was fab. said so much about the place. Sadly when I went there it was completely different. The book couldn't give me the feel of the place, the smell, food, heat, sound of the ocean, those sunsets! Sometimes experiencing something gives you the A different outlook.
 
ELLERS said:
I remember reading a book about Australia before I moved there. It was fab. said so much about the place. Sadly when I went there it was completely different. The book couldn't give me the feel of the place, the smell, food, heat, sound of the ocean, those sunsets! Sometimes experiencing something gives you the A different outlook.
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Well done Captain Cook.
 
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To be fair my 15 year old could absolutely school a lot of people on politics that have the right to vote and has done, will his views change? Maybe but due to the environment he has grown up in he is aware of a multitude of political based issues. You won't be surprised to know I'm not exactly a fan of Thatcher, the one thing I found myself agreeing to yearning back to past year politically speaking is I suspect there were less politically disengaged people just voting on one issue in the 70/80s.
 
ELLERS said:
It's true and you don't have an answer to come back with. Next
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I gave you too much credit then. It’s ridiculous to write off the views of someone who didn’t directly experience an event for many reasons. Secondary sources tend to be less biased than one person’s view of an entire era, especially viewed through the misty eyes of their youth.

It’s like comparing the war rhetoric of boomers to the generally more balanced accounts of wartime from the generation that actually had to live through it.
 
West WindsR said:
I gave you too much credit then. It’s ridiculous to write off the views of someone who didn’t directly experience an event for many reasons. Secondary sources tend to be less biased than one person’s view of an entire era, especially viewed through the misty eyes of their youth.

It’s like comparing the war rhetoric of boomers to the generally more balanced accounts of wartime from the generation that actually had to live through it.
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No I'm down with it, people are gonna have to be quiet about Churchill, the war etc.. though
 
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