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On a more serious note there is some interesting content in here (from the over-55s)
https://www.demos.co.uk/project/citizens-voices/
Some random comments:
You go to A&E on any night of the week and a lot of the people going in are on first name terms with the staff because they’re going in time and time again, because really they should be in a care home of some description.
I think it probably started in the 80s, I’m biased, but I can remember Thatcher saying ‘there’s no such thing as society, only the individual’. And I think the balance changed a lot.
Our society has totally lost respect. It’s just got no respect for anyone or anything.
Bring back hanging […] I tell you what, it would stop…this rise in acid attacks. It takes one person to hang and it would stop.
At work we have an equality and diversity team, so I get what they’re doing, don’t get me wrong, it’s brilliant stuff. But there’s an inordinate amount of resources for the needs of two people, when there are 3000 people overall. So think it has to be proportionate.
You have to have a percentage of immigrants. To build your society. But it does need some control over it. Personally, I would go for a system as I say, other countries have, where you have to show what you are going to bring to the country. Just make it fairer.
There’s a lot of people in positions [of power] judging aspects of life that they’ve never experienced. They said we’re all in this together, and they’ve got their noses in the trough ripping off the expenses and it’s us lower beings that have got the runt of it. It’s always been the case.
Rees-Mogg comes across a tough Tory, but I think he’s clued in to more everyday things.
I’d vote for Boris Johnson, because at least he’s an idiot and we can have a laugh. I know he’s probably completely out of touch and he is a bit of a buffoon. But he is quite smart, and I would much prefer him than anyone else I can think of.
My son was absolutely livid [about Brexit]. He texted me to say, “I hope you are happy now”.
When me granddaughter goes to dancing class, she’s only four and she’s not allowed to go in the same dressing room for people above five without having a chaperone there. There’s got to be chaperones there. Now, that’s come from European law, it’s come from that.
It just seemed a little bit futile for so many lives to have been lost in wars, to have been absorbed by the same people that we were fighting against. I know that’s history, but what was the point of it all if we were just going to give into it?
I was in Italy a couple of years ago and I was in a hotel, and the waiter served curly cucumbers, and he looked at me and he smiled and he said ‘Yes, it is only the British that have straight cucumbers’. What it tends to be is: because we are a very honourable nation, what everybody says, we have to get along with the rules, we actually play by the rules. Nobody else does!
We have a farm, and so many of our workers are from Eastern Europe. I don’t know what I’ll do if they stop coming. They won’t stop coming, will they?
You get the picture...