Re: What if the will of the people is now for a second referendum on Brexit?
Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2017 12:13 pm
Jackie, reading your post takes me back in my life - which was very much as you describe.Firefly wrote: ↑Sat Jul 15, 2017 4:24 pm Jim
You say that as a child of the late 50s you grew up relative poverty, in an area where few people had much, like most of the UK at that time.
I don't know what area you grew up in, but I was a child of the late 40s. I grew up in a City in the North of England. We didn't have a car, not many did, so my Dad walked to work, my Mum walked to town to shop, and I walked to school. We didn't have a TV, we had a radio. My Dad didn't smoke or drink, nor my Mother, except a couple of sherries at Christmas. We didn't have computers, mobile phones, calculators, except our brains. We didn't go on foreign holidays, we stayed in Britain.
So what did we have, my parents owned their own home, presumably because their money went on the household bills, food and clothing, you know, necessities. I played out all day with friends in fine weather, if wet, we played games inside. We were safe in our neighbourhood, where everyone knew each other, and everyone helped each other out when needed. My Mum never locked the door when she went to town shopping. At eleven I got my first bike, and spent hours riding out and about, a sandwich and a bottle of pop in the saddle bag. I went to Saturday Morning Pictures, Brownies, Guides, ballroom dancing classes, youth club. We weren't wealthy, but what a happy childhood I had, would I change it ? not for anything. My parents loved me, cared for me and brought me up, I think they did a good job.
If you didn't experience my sort of childhood, I'm sorry, but I think you were the exception, not the rule.
Jackie
I was born in 1944 in London and my biological parents killed in the blitz. I was then adopted by a couple in Scarborough.
My father was a jeweler, quite small scale with a small high street shop, and a church warden. My adopted mother never worked.
I went to State Primary school nearby to our home, newly built post war and state of the art then (e.g. we had radio relayed to all classrooms for schools programs from the BBC).
The school served a newly built council estate of 400 homes.
Being prudent my parents wanted the best for me and avoided any holidays so as to pay for me to attend Public School as a border in York after I passed my 11+.
It gave me a fab start in life, which I did not appreciate at the time!
I know one thing, there is no way my adopted parents would ever vote to join the EU and they didn't. They would certainly have voted for Brexit had they still been alive.
Like your parents Jackie, my adopted parents did their very best for me, cared for me and most of all loved me as their own.
Geoff.