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here's appealing to the dolly parton fan in you: there's some very, very hot (and I mean it) female refugees in Calais. Qualitative research can be huge fun.

yes, its much better to stick to ones preconceived ideas than to venture into the world and discover a shared reality

here's a different way forward than speculating and projecting ones fears into others (which we all do, to be fair). Have you done any qualitative research (phenomenological explication is the jargon I believe)? Do some. Get your - evidently liberal, inclusive caring, and hell, no I wouldn't...

I very agree, @tillson,france isnt war torn but evidently you havent spoken to or known refugees,its more cimplex than it may seem from that cosy entitled armchair.

Yes,god,without getting too moralistic,how low does one have to have sunk to look at this suffering and instead of trying to help think "there's a nuisance I don't need"

perhaps, growing up in an ex colony has left me with a different perception, it can equally feel like hegemony. Happily, as this forum and brexit illustrates, the chances of that degree of collaboration ever actually happening is very slim

me too, way back when, read the allegory before about English conquering the world with interest. It's not as phonetic as say Spanish, or French, and so can cause more dyslexia. Perhaps as with brexit, be careful for what you wish for.

yup, somehow we've made it this far into the 21st century as a species with these three specimens as the epitome of the evolution of the species.

yes sadly the tory rogering of the little people with brexit is well and truly past tense, now its just the small matter of the little people picking up the tab as well. However, strictly FWIW one small but very significant silver lining, for me, is the absurdity of it all. Can't speak for how...

you asked why I care given that I live in france. in other words you suggested that I shouldn't care. a very large number of Europeans care a great deal about brexit. not for financial reasons. for ethical, human reasons. they do not wish to live in a world in which the ethics of le pen or...

for a more neutral response: Europe and many Europeans who reside in the land of garlic care a great deal about brexit. many care because they care about living in a shared world we all take care of each other in. they do not consider a Europe governed by those with sentiments like farage's or...

ah, a brexiter returning to his favourite topic, immigrants. and telling them to get lost. contrary to popular brexit belief, the uk is in fact, economically, not an island. But I am talking to someone who looks at the change in the pound euro exchange rate over the past three months and...

as fictional creative writing that's quite vivid, as an analysis of facts, I'm afraid not. At least when remainers state what they think they usually refer to some transient statistics like the pound euro exchange rate (which may not concern brexit voters much, I know, but have indirectly caused...

Yes,cameron sacrificed the economy,union and welfare of uk citizens for tory unity. Great,very responsible. Aside from that my post wasnt about the objective process leading to the referendum (of which that is one account), iwas about what occurred to you as a leave voter as you envisaged...

so, when a leave voter is asked to envisage a brexit future farage and le pen take centre stage in that. This isn't a reflection on you tilson, ive experienced this in most of my conversations with others who voted leave. At best, IMHO, it is by way of saying anti-immigration was at the heart of...

I wish you were right. Sincerely,and I'm neither trying to be clever or patronising,it absolutely cannot work in terms off the make-up of the UK economy (less manufacturing more services etc)and a globalised world in which one needs to be in a trade block.

Perhaps,but I gather some bureau de change offer less than a euro for a pound,do you think the electorate really knew or know what the consequences of brexit is?

i had big apples before the marathon plus' - they felt marginally more free rolling, and as if they provided somewhat betetr cushioning (th erubber is thinner, more elastic i think) - but thorns aside, if you are in an area with lots of broken glass, they can puncture. Mine did - after about...

the snag, as in trex's post about EFTA, is that in a globalised world we would have to belong to a customs union or be out in the cold where we couldnt survive. And so we would start the same EU journey all over again as free trade means free movement of labour and capital.. but we would...

i sincerely do not want to sound negative. But it would feel to me on par with trying to draft either a suicide note or an ISIS style confession for one of those orange jump suit TV appearances. The best thing I can com up with is a brief, contrite note on behalf of teh british nation to the EU...