You really are obtuse Ram59...not sure whether you miss the point through lack of understanding or if it's a deliberate strategy.
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Actually it's a perfect example of you putting your own particular slant on what has been written to skew what has been said.
Your post implies that I've suggested 'the vote should be taken away from senior citizens just because they might die soon' and that this is 'dangerous ground'. I have said no such thing and you know it.
You also query my suggestion about seventeen year olds being allowed to vote by saying, 'Look hard enough and you might find a few ten year olds'...which is utter nonsense.
My point was...seventeen year olds have a bigger stake in and probably a greater awareness of a future which was last voted on over forty (not thirty as you also originally suggested) years ago than those people in their eighties or nineties who may be suffering from some sort of degenerative memory loss condition.
It's a fair point imo, up to you whether you agree or choose to answer it, but please don't try and distort the issue by deliberate misinterpretation and then accuse me of not reading the words I've quoted back to you.
Wibble
As I was saying...'you don't half get agitated and...well... angry when challenged. ;D
I rest my case...stick to football Angry...you make more sense. :heart:X
P.S. Except about Keogh.:P
1975 I voted out (for me) and was defeated; 2016 I voted in (for my kids) and was defeated. Can I have another chance to try and be on the winning side please - even if its a referendum on kicking the sweaties out of the Union.
Well as we canter towards 1000 posts, i did try to bring the debate down to more simple points and post what in my opinion were positive points about EU membership and asked you to post what you thought were the benefits of leaving, which you didn't and still haven't. So you point about ignoring answers to posts cuts both ways!
I get frustrated having to cut down again and again the same old chestnuts which are many of the reasons given for leaving the Eu many of which have nothing to do with being in the EU, for example the issue with Syrian Refugees, this talk about Muslims etc etc.
I have repeatedly answered a number of points and in particular the debate about whether voting leave is a leap in the dark or voting remain is somehow a conservative decision.
Sweaties = persons of a Scottish origin: sweaty socks - jocks (more rhyming slang for you)
Wibble - see Viz, quoth Roger Irrelevant
And yes my vote was in the balance until the night before - my son wanted to vote remain but was not in the country and hadnt sorted postal vote (bloody students) so that made my mind up. My objection is and always will be on grounds of the creation of a non transparent federal nightmare of Kafkaesque proportions, but this does not seem to concern that generation in the way it does mine.
Plus I accept I'm in the dead generation and the vote isnt about my future: a nursing home in the south of France has its appeals! 😁
but now it looks like Skegness