Goodness not far off a year since I last wrote on this blog. Still keeping with the idea of this blog, it is not my diary but how I look at what is happening now for people to read as history in the future.
I am a woman of nearly 81 living in a small town on the south coast of England. My outlook on life is via Television, Internet and occasionally Newspapers. If I do read newspapers they are more than likely to be digital.
EU
But my subject here is the European Union much under discussion because we as a people are going to be given a choice of staying in or leaving this Union. My one vote may seem very small and could easily be wiped out if my husband decides to vote the opposite way. I am not saying he will because I don't think either of us have made up our minds which way to vote, we vacillate either way many times a day. I did have a short conversation with my 55 year old son. As he has longer to live with the result I wanted to know what he thought about it. It is mentioned in social circles but not really discussed.
We are now bombarded by sound bites for IN and OUT. A cabal of people from different political views have got together and stand for the OUT. At the moment it only seems to be the govenment led by Cameron that stand for the OUT. But even within the different political parties they have some for in and some for out, possibly contary the the party's offical stance on the subject. So how is an old lady in the depths of the country supposed to work out what to vote. The trouble is in Great Britain, United Kingdom, England, we don't really feel Europeon. I would think that people viewing that from USA or China etc. would find that very funny. They might say but look how close you are. In my younger days I had a relation that thought ....... (A word I can't use) started at Calais. Very introverted, island culture.
The trouble is nobody will say what will happen to us if we leave, the OUTS just shout about losing our sovereignty. The INs seem to be using the fear card. Terrible things would happen if we leave. Better the devil you know. So at this time I can't say which way I think, it would take a person far cleverer than me to understand all. What did my son think? He felt that larger unions were the way for the world to go, breaking down into smaller units was wrong at this time. He maybe right, after all perhaps that is the way to get futuristic World Governments. Has it happened 2525? I will try to write more on this from now to referendum in the summer months.
