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Brexit

A Quiet sad corner

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smashedinductionhob · 14/03/2017 18:50

That's all. Pop over and sit down quietly if you like.

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Tanith · 15/03/2017 08:17

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missmoon · 15/03/2017 08:29

Love this quiet corner...

Tanith · 15/03/2017 08:34

I think the March is still important. At the very least, it shows our friends in Europe that we didn't turn our backs on them and that Farage does not speak for us.

Brokenbiscuit · 15/03/2017 08:39

I know you're right about the march, Tanith. I just feel so depressed about the whole thing and don't want to have to face it. Sad

smashedinductionhob · 15/03/2017 08:42

we know Tanith. we won't live in the corner. we just need to come here sometimes to be still.

it helps us look it in the eye when we venture out again.

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Kaija · 15/03/2017 08:43

What tanith said. But also so that you can get through whatever the coming years bring in the knowledge that you did everything you could. And finally because if there is even the tiniest possibility that it will make a difference it will have been worth it.

Badders123 · 15/03/2017 08:44

So wish I could march but logistically it's just going to be too hard.

Sigh

That what you get for living in the arse end of nowhere...

smashedinductionhob · 15/03/2017 08:45

yes.

My role, right here, right now, is to quietly drink tea.

Does anyone else get literary quotes in their heads or bits of music? I mean ones on unrelated subjects but where the mood matches?

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Figmentofmyimagination · 15/03/2017 08:45

One of the really sad things for me - which I put on another thread a couple of days ago - apart from the sheer insanity and pointlessness of it all - is that after all her hard work, my DD1 will inevitably graduate (June 2018) into the middle of a horrendous graduate recruitment freeze, with really damaging long term implications for career progression of whole cohorts of young people. I just can't believe it really. So unnecessary.

Figmentofmyimagination · 15/03/2017 08:48

If you can't march on sat (I don't think I can), you can certainly make sure TM knows how you feel when she goes on her various country-wide road trips being reported in the guardian - to 'unify' us all. I wonder if she will publish her programme in advance.

Badders123 · 15/03/2017 08:48

The desiderata keeps going round in my head - I keep a copy in handbag at all
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It helps me when I am feeling desperate and sad...

Badders123 · 15/03/2017 08:49

Here you go;

Desiderata - Words for Life
Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible without surrender
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others,
even the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons,
they are vexations to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others,
you may become vain and bitter;
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.

Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs;
for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals;
and everywhere life is full of heroism.

Be yourself.
Especially, do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love;
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment
it is as perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline,
be gentle with yourself.

You are a child of the universe,
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive Him to be,
and whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful.
Strive to be happy.

Badders123 · 15/03/2017 08:51

And may I suggest cello suite in g major by yo yo ma?

So beautiful

MsHooliesCardigan · 15/03/2017 08:51

I wish I could stop feeling so angry. I just can't seem to shake it off. DH is Northern Irish and half his family live just into the North and the other half live a couple of miles into the ROI. I remember the first time I visited and they still had soldiers on the border. His mum is terrified. And I will throttle the next person who talks about the elite. On what planet are Farage, Bojo, Gove and JRM not part of the elite? I just want to cry < sobs quietly >

smashedinductionhob · 15/03/2017 08:55

you may Badders.

I'm reclaiming Elgar, but only with headphones on.

just to keep quiet.

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smashedinductionhob · 15/03/2017 08:55

tea's ready

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smashedinductionhob · 15/03/2017 08:57

would anyone like to hear some Vaclav Havel on Europe, and why it matters?

I know it might make us tear up a bit.

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Peregrina · 15/03/2017 08:59

I can't bear to listen to Theresa May. From the tone of her first Prime Minister's Questions I just thought that no, this was wrong. What we needed was a reconciler and a healer. What we got was someone who hectored and harangued. The we got someone who came up with soundbites on the steps of Downing Street about people not managaging, whereas she couldn't care less about them, if her behaviour is to be judged by.

I hope that her vision of Brexit fails, and takes her and her right wing cronies down with her.

smashedinductionhob · 15/03/2017 09:02

let's move to more nutritious fare....

It's not too long, and will like Ready Brek in the tummy, creating a glow.

www.vaclavhavel.cz/showtrans.php?cat=projevy&val=221_aj_projevy.html&typ=HTML

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MsHooliesCardigan · 15/03/2017 09:03

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got til it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot.

I have this on permanent play in my head. I will be on the march, for all the good it will do.

Peregrina · 15/03/2017 09:06

I will be on the march, for all the good it will do.

I feel the same, but I tell myself that when my grandchildren ask me why I did nothing to stop it, I will be able to say that I did what I could.

Kaija · 15/03/2017 09:09

On the subject of songs I'm afraid this is the scene which has been playing through my mind over the last nine months. And this is why we have to keep fighting.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=29Mg6Gfh9Co

MsHooliesCardigan · 15/03/2017 09:12

Peregrina That's a large part of my reasoning too. When my children and any potential grandchildren ask 'What the hell were you thinking?', I will show them the photos of me marching. It's well known about the voting difference between older and younger people. By the time we've eventually sorted out the chaos i.e. at least ten years, a lot of the older leave voters will have died off and millions of young people who would have voted leave will have become of voting age and I doubt they'll be thanking us.

MsHooliesCardigan · 15/03/2017 09:13

Sorry, young people who would have voted Remain, obviously 🙄

Kaija · 15/03/2017 09:18

(We are all the old man in the cap at 1:44 in the Cabaret clip - but there are a lot of us.)