Well I’ve been riveted watching this all day, I’m going on 24 hours here, it’s
also a welcome distraction to some really really bad stuff happening on my
family level right now so forgive me if I use your country’s politics as a
distraction.:) My grandmother oddly enough who is the connection to Britain
for me passed after 96 years on this rock and it’s all closing in on me now
that I am only one of 3 left in our family and the other 2 are on the shorter
end of their lives than longer so I’m feeling a bit freaked out and my numbers
are dwindling down to 0 so if I get in the weeds you get it.
To give you an idea why I feel such a connection with your country my
family on my mother’s side came to this country fairly recently. My grand
mother and grand father came over to this country on boats I believe before
world war 2 and settled on the east coast as well as Detroit. My great Grand
father, mother’s grand father actually worked on your crown jewels. I have
jewelers drawings hand made by him used to create some of the items in your
tower of London today. I’ve frequently thought about giving them to one of
your museums if you’d have them but I have no idea their value or if they
represent any thing special to the British people or even what or who should
have them. It’s this man’s daughter, my grand mother who passed this morning.
She taught me so much about your part of the world from your money to telling
me stories about my cousins who I don’t know but sell fruit in fruit stands
somewhere in London or another husband and wife relation of ours who I met once
years ago and don’t know exactly how they fit but they own a sweater company in
Scotland. I remember these people coming to visit us and my Grand Father who
is from Whales loved taking them to sites around the north east US where we
americans beat back the British during the Revolution.:) He loved giving the
English side of our family a real ribbing about the revolution when they would
come to visit. In the same breath though, my grandfather served during World
War II and I know always talked about the Brits he served proudly with.
I say all this because I’m not the only one. So many of us have such
connections to your island. So understand when you say all in together and all
that, I consider very much we folks on both sides of the pond on the same team.
BTW, BBC and ITV just called it in favor of leaving I’m shocked but
you’ve definitely made things interesting over here. Your vaporizing my
financial holdings as I watch this, thanks guys☺, but I’m in, I wish we could
shake off our oppressive federal government like you all just did the EU. The
rebel in me feels a real connection to your side right now. Not for racial
reasons, not for fear of any group but for self determination, self rule,
beating back the huge corporate and global interests that do not have your
country’s best interest at heart. I know the economic arguments made against
you leaving and I say bunk. You’re a strong country, you do not need the
approval of brussels to get through your day. The UK alone is a massive
economy, thankfully you never wrapped your self in the Euro so your pound will
carry on. I will buy many of your pounds when they tank over the next few days
because the fears are irrational and I will do well as will you all doubling
down on yourselves.
So folks in Florida or Texas, if you wish to break away from the union
let me know, I’ll move down and join you.:) I feel like blasting dixie and
blasting a few hundred rounds in the air in celebration of someone, finally,
beating back the powers of globalization and centralization of regulation with
out representation. In stead so I don’t get labeled a racist or arrested for
making to much noise or being armed in the US I will hoist a cold one in your
country’s honor.
To my Grand Mother Jean and to the fine people of Britain, stay or leave, way
to go! Nicely done and all that on all counts. I drink a Sam Adams beer from
the Boston Brewing company in your honor. The irony is not lost on me nor is
it lost o nme that I’m siding with the tories.:)
And the associated press just called it and someone is pounding on Borris
Johnson’s door trying to wake him up. Great stuff!
CNBC just called it in favor of leave also.
Wow, I’m shocked!
On 6/23/16, 6:11 PM, "Sabahattin Gucukoglu" <[email protected] on
behalf of [email protected]> wrote:
Mmm, your president does seem to have quite a fascination with teats, doesn’t
he? :)
Regardless, I imagine his comments did more to inflame the Brexiters than to
encourage the Bremainers. But, as it happens, I too hope to remain. The worst
part about it is that it’s based more or less purely on pragmatism rather than
principle: the far-right government now in power will only use Brexit to lurch
even further to the right, without our delightful, if meddlesome, friends in
Brussels to prevent them by (undemocratically, it’s true) arriving at sensible
and socially just policy decisions on the merits. The hypothetical independent
state of Britain, in a climate of establishment neoliberalism and
first-past-the-post voting, seems distantly unlikely. And as a believer in
more EU unification in any event (Turkish parents), I can’t say I feel too bad
about that. Better together, and all that jazz. :)
Still, I do wonder what that hypothetical Britain, under the rule of a
democratically elected liberal government, would look like. It’d be cosy, but
would it make me happy? Initially, probably. Maybe we could make it work at
the negotiating tables where decisions are made. But I’d feel bad for the
other EU member states, and the project. We’d be turning away everything it,
and all of the men, women and children in its member states, represent. My
individualistic side says it makes no difference as long as I’m living in the
exact same country; my squidgy insides say otherwise. No, the EU isn’t a
utopia, but by remaining, at least we can fix its faults, which is something a
lot of Brexiters seem completely reluctant to take any interest in doing. And
maybe we can one day look forward to a truly united Europe.
So maybe it is about principle, after all. :)
Well, we shan’t have long to find out, at any rate. About eight hours, in fact.
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