Still with yesterday evening's supper party - snapshot of table just after I'd laid it. Later on during the meal Christine remarked that it was Trafalgar Day (206th anniversary thereof), so I proposed the traditional toast 'Confusion to the French' which was then drunk. Thought afterwards I should have added a more modern toast (which I'd just made up) :- "And beggar the Common Market before it beggars us".
You're in favour of a referendum, I suspect, Mike!
ReplyDeleteTrafalgar Day was my grandfather's (the one mentioned in yesterday's post) birthday. His first name was Nelson, though he didn't use it.
In the only referendum we've ever had Zoe, which was held in the early seventies, and was as to whether we stayed in the Common Market, we both voted 'out', so yes, we'd both like another chance to do so.
ReplyDeleteYour grandfather had a good Norfolk name. In my part of Norfolk when I was a boy there was an old joke that an unlikely thing might happen "when Nelson gets his other eye back".
P.s. And I think that saying might be applied to the likelihood of our being ever given another referendum, whatever the politicians promise us.
ReplyDeleteThe Honest Parliamentarian
ReplyDelete‘Tis politic to promise
Whate’er the voters want
but if we come to power
their wishes we can’t grant.
For when we come to power
The only power we hold
is the power to feather our nest
and leave the voters cold.
There’s bugger-all that we can do
but much that we can say
and promises are only words
to make you vote our way.
So when you’ve put us into power
you’ll learn that to your cost
when we made all our promises
Our fingers all were crossed!