The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #160163   Message #3798857
Posted By: Jim Carroll
03-Jul-16 - 08:48 AM
Thread Name: BS: Whither Scotland, Northern Ireland?
Subject: RE: BS: Whither Scotland, Northern Ireland?
"London is not the United Kingdom."
I've been told by one of your compatriots that because the leave vote squeezed through by a narrow margin it doesn't matter a toss what Northern Ireland and Scotland voted, any future decisions will be taken in London
The marginal nature of a decision taken by a narrow majority of %72 of the British people means that all decisions will be taken in London.   
You have yet to respond to that damage and from the announcement of the result your attitude has been that of a very small cock crowing from a very small dunghill.
The damage done by this decision is what inspired these protests and it is far from a done deal yet
You may have won this particular skirmish, but it isd far from over.
"I've heard you have to be pretty well heeled to live in London."
You most certainly do not - you appear to understand nothing.
London has a massive indigenous working-class population, many of whom wh survive on a hand-to-mouth existence which is deteriorating by the day.
You now have to be well-heeled to move to London - a different thing altogether - no affordable rented accommodation, sky-high house prices and now an extremely expensive place to live.
We moved in 1998 and immediately realised that, should we wish, we would never be able to afford to move back there - thankfully, wild horses.... and all that.
Even the most ignorant of Socialists I have met understand a little about the sociology of Britain - which door was you hiding behing when they were handing out the brains?
Don't you care about the potential loss of jobs, wherever they are, or the divisions in Britain, or the possible break-up of the U.K. or the million or so British workers who are quite likely to be sent back to Britain - I know you don't give a toss about the fate of those refugees you want turned away - your arguments contain neither economic common-sense nor humanity - they are based on pure bigoted prejudice and dishonesty.
Jim Carroll