Out of the EU? (just for fun)

Exactly jingl
I imagine the European Courts of Human Rights just might be a teeny bit interested if certain posters' 'facts' came to be even 1% factual!

I know several Danish and Spanish people who live and work over here (amongst other nationalities) and I have never heard that they have had any problem whatsoever with racist undercurrents.

The days of fear of marauding Vikings are long forgotten I would have thought.
I know one or two people who are very proud of their Viking heritage, despite the fact that they have Dupuytren's contracture.

Look on the bright side. If they get deported it's not that far to travel to go to see them. Our friends pop over to Denmark frequently to see her DB and SIL. And it's such a lovely place to visit.
It's not like going to the other side of the world.

Aside from the question of whether the referendum will actually go ahead, and what the result would be, I think it's distasteful to use a child's reaction to what he's obviously picked up during family discussions to illustrate one's case, especially as the obvious solution to his distress is dismissed out of hand.

That's possibly what you get Ana when extreme views are stated as 'facts'.
Poor little lad, very sad and totally unnecessary IMO.

Whether the referendum will actually go ahead? Seriously?

I think you're getting a bit personal loopy and Ana

Not at all, the facts were posted here and got responses GrannyTwice.
Just as you have responded to others on this post and others.

Oh, I know the referendum's on the cards, but if DC manages to get enough concessions from the EU to placate the UK anti-EU brigade then the result might not be the foregone conclusion that the doom and gloomers are predicting.

As for 'getting personal', I stand by what I said.

Ana - get enough concessions? < falls on floor clutching sides>

Amateur dramatics GT?
You have a good point there Ana

What age do you think school children should get involved in political discussions, Ana?
My children did humanities from the age of eleven and discussed politics. My seven year old granddaughter had an election in her class last week. Immigration came up in it, as did economics and fairness.
If the British people do not get their referendum,there will be riots, and not from the left.

Rose, I'd love to go to Denmark to visit them, but it costs an arm and a leg. Can't go by ferry as I get seasick.
Anyway, my grandson has said I can go there to live with them if they have to move. He's already planning how to get there using his lorry simulator.

I wouldn't underestimate DC Grannytwice.

FFS durhamjen! they haven't gone, and won't have to!

School children? I thought your grandson was autistic and home educated by you and your daughter, durhamjen. So he takes part in all your discussions about the state of the world does he?

Yet your son and his partner won't marry to ease their son's worries...

She's not my daughter, she's my son's partner, the one you wish would marry my son and solve all their problems.
Yes, my grandson is home educated, but you still have to try to educate according to his needs, ability and aptitude. He discusses politics when we go to get the newspaper. He also gives money and works out the change. Not all autistic kids have a mental age of five, you know.
No he doesn't take part in all our discussions about the state of the world, but he does ask intelligent questions. Doesn't always listen to the answers.

Why have you got such a fixation on my son and his partner getting married?
I have told you, it will not stop her being Danish. There is no such thing as a fairy wand, except in pantomimes and fairy tales. Hans Christian Andersen's tales are a lot darker than we are told.

Ana. I think you are going too far.

I thought the problem was that your grandson was worried his mum was going to have to go back to Denmark.

Suggestions were made that she could marry your son and she would not have to go back to Denmark.

Why would anyone want her to 'stop being Danish'? You seem to be on a completely different wavelength to all those who have actually tried to address what we assumed was the problem, which was your grandson being upset.

Sorry for trying to help...

jingl, thanks for that. Perhaps you'd like to report my posts?

Of course not. I wouldn't dream of it.

This thread either has a lot of people getting alarmed probably over nothing at all.

Or it is being intentionally whipped up.

I cant decide which.

I actually prefer it to be the former.

I shouldn't have suggested their getting married. It was too personal. It just seemed the obvious thing. Sorry durhamjen.

Thanks, jingl.