One of the biggest things that has happened in the United Kingdom (Britain) for last 70 years and I have had nothing to say about it. 70 years? Yes the end of World War 2. I think this is equal in importance. This will be the greatest change, even greater than going into the Europeon Union. Why? Because we didn't vote to go into it, we voted to join the Common Market. Another reason is this is really the first time I have seen the British people dare to cock a snook at the Establishment.
Remember, people of 2525, I am looking at this from a small seaside town in the west country of England, I am viewing from a distance the story that I suppose mostly takes place in London. My view is via the Television news or my Internet connection. I talked to everyday people, friends, family and passers by, yes that was one of the things on the runup to the Referendum. People would actualy talk about what they would vote, ask what you would vote, or give their opinions either way, In or Out of the Union. Very rare for Brits to ask you which way you were going to vote in a general election. But for this vote almost all the people I know wanted to chat about it and see what I was going vote. Personally I have always belived that what I vote is between me and the ballot box and I said so. This even led to one relation saying what they thought I was going to vote.
I myself took sounding from my son who is in his fifties to know what a younger person thought. This elicited a sharp 'I'm not young'. Ah, but you are to me son. He still has the years ahead to live with the answer. All I will see is the immediate result. And as it turned out the result may be catastrophic.
I was as stunned as everyone else that the Brits went for OUT. Like most people I thought they would vote for the safe 'stay as we are' IN. It really meant that older people did vote to leave the Union and younger people for Status Quo. Having discussed this with said younger to me son he had come up with there are more oppotunities for work within the Union. Of course they have been brought up living inside the Union and being taught at School of the benefits for them. So why should they not vote IN. Older people were, I think, looking back wearing rose coloured glasses.
The world has changed beyond all recognition in the last 70 years. As I remember it is wasen't quite so wonderful in my younger days. I live now on a minimum amount of money and lived on an equally small amount of money when young. It is much better now, believe me. Particualrly as a woman, I don't want to go back. I like the global world, it has its possibilities. And I am first Internet generation . You think its the young? No, not at all, I was making web site before most of them were born. And no, I'm still not going to tell you which way I voted.
