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November 9, 2022
by Liz
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Being right doesn’t mean being happy

This post was written in November 2021

I voted to remain in the European Union and I campaigned for a confirmatory referendum once the terms of the Brexit deal were known. For the last five years I have been a member of the European Movement. According to popular sentiment on social media I should be happy, celebrating the empty shelves and delighting in predictions of leading supermarkets that Christmas may need to be cancelled. I should be out there searching for more evidence of Brexit damage and revelling in “I told you so”.

But I’m not.

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November 11, 2020
by Liz
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Oceans Rise, Empires Fall

Last month my daughter’s Californian boy friend, who is visiting for an extended holiday, insisted we watch Hamilton, the Broadway musical about one of the founding fathers of the United States. He wondered what we would think of the portrayal of George III.

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August 29, 2020
by Liz
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Real people with Real Lives

Over the last month*, while the dismal weather limited activities in the garden and the dog preferred to lie curled up with his nose under his tail rather than venture out for a walk, I distracted myself with family history research. I started building the family tree of my daughters more than twenty years ago, and over that time many names have been added to it: some famous, most not.

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July 18, 2020
by Liz
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The narcissists are in charge

Every day for what seems forever, but probably only since 2013, I have told myself that things can’t get any worse and almost every day I have gone to bed disappointed. There have been moments of cheer, but in reality the up sections of the roller-coaster ride have been smaller than the descents. The trend has been remorselessly down and the narcissists are in charge of the asylum.

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July 3, 2020
by Liz
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Move over for the younger generation

I started this blog in July 2019 but never finished it. Now the coronavirus lockdown has stopped most travel and many more people are relying on video conferencing for their private and working lives. Even school classes are conducted on line. The “Zoom” way of life has opened up different divides in society and highlighted different priorities. We don’t know what the lasting effects will be; working from home may stay; the “key” workers may be treated with more respect and command better pay (we can only hope); a new set of priorities and new economic and social models may dawn. More than ever it is time to make room for the younger generation.

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January 31, 2020
by Liz
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Time to step up and fight for the honour of our country

Only 3 hours to go before the UK formally leaves the EU and I am feeling extremely sad about it. At the moment I don’t have the energy to be angry, but the sadness is coloured with frustration and dismayed disappointment.

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January 15, 2020
by Liz
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Let’s Come Together now Brexit’s done. Really?

Now that Johnson has his majority the formality of Leaving the EU is getting an easy ride through parliament and we know the UK will leave the EU on 31st January 2020. Despite the “Get Brexit Done” slogan, so successful in the 2019 General Election, it doesn’t mean Brexit is done. The Vote Leave campaign now in government must now deliver in the real world.

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December 23, 2019
by Liz
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Big lies, bigger cover up, slippery slope

Some things stick in the memory, others don’t. For some reason I’ve always remembered a university lecturer claiming that “Local people are more likely to challenge their council spending £200 on a park bench than £2 million on a swimming pool”. The reason: scale.

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August 28, 2019
by Liz
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A race to the bottom

My husband follows a local Facebook group populated mainly by hard Brexiters and for some reason he thinks it amusing to read some of their posts to me. The posters are enthusiastic about “no-deal” Brexit and, as you may expect, challenge anyone against it to have faith and belief in Britain (or in some cases England). But why do they have such confidence?

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August 3, 2019
by Liz
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Who needs experts?

Who needs experts eh? For the last two years I have been amusing myself with a blog about retirement in the style of Brexit. Creating a fiction of my own life reflecting the absurdities of what Brexit leaders were saying and doing was better than banging my head against the wall. At times it was difficult to keep up with the chaos but I struggled on.

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