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I'm absobloodylutely sick of it!

(36 Posts)
Thingmajig Tue 21-Jun-16 21:41:12

I was just thinking tonight that though it pains me to admit there's anything good about this endless drivel football, at least it's giving us shortened news programs. We were on the point of switching off the news to escape it all. DH is up in arms and doesn't even have a vote, him being a real foreigner European! grin

Bad news is that whichever way the vote goes we'll never hear the end of it ... the Scottish referendum refuses to die. angry

obieone Tue 21-Jun-16 21:41:01

#rollonfriday
Except I have a funeral to go to.

So I should really say roll on saturday[meeting I dont want to go to] and sunday[garden party type event that I shall have to go to[might be ok?]]

#rollonmonday

grannylyn65 Tue 21-Jun-16 21:38:54

yes phoenix 100% smile

Alea Tue 21-Jun-16 21:35:47

I think Tim Harford also did a series of 5 programmes at 1.45 (?) Mon - Friday last week literally unpicking the figures being bandied around in this campaign, starting with the £350 billion. He's very sound.

Charleygirl Tue 21-Jun-16 21:33:39

I have voted by post already phoenix but I would never spoil my vote- I do not see the pint of that.

merlotgran Tue 21-Jun-16 21:32:57

I feel the same, phoenix. DH has had his mind made up from the start but I've been reading, watching, listening and considering for what seems like forever.

I've come to the conclusion that I don't think I care either way. hmm

phoenix Tue 21-Jun-16 21:31:54

grannylyn Should I take that as a sign that you agree with my post, if so, thank you!

Charleygirl Tue 21-Jun-16 21:31:25

I also have had enough and this is not the first time I have said it. It has shown the true colours of some politicians- Boris being one of them. He is a total buffoon and the thought of him ever being Conservative leader makes me want to emigrate.

Indinana Tue 21-Jun-16 21:30:59

If they shoot you, phoenix, I'm standing right beside you. I too am sick, sore and weary of all the lies and the rhetoric. And as for the number of threads that have been started on GN about the referendum shock. I tried counting them, and I'm afraid I lost the will to live somewhere around the 13 or 14 mark.
Roll on Friday.

grannylyn65 Tue 21-Jun-16 21:26:40

Bump

phoenix Tue 21-Jun-16 21:25:41

And will be glad when it's all over.

Figures being bandied about, leave say that what we pay each week would pay to build a new hospital, (wrong/not actually accurate, take your pick),remain coming out with other statistics, politicians who were firmly in one camp, suddenly changing sides, what on earth is Joe Average supposed to think!

I found Radio 4 programme "More or Less" on Saturday, when they unpicked some of the stats, more informative than a lot of the rhetoric.

There will be carefully considered votes, knee jerk reaction votes, and ill informed votes, but come Friday I doubt if the world will have stopped turning on its axis, the birds will still sing, there will still be the poor, the underprivileged and the fat cats who will always be ok.

Yes, I will be voting, I always do as a matter of principle, even though in the past I have known to deliberately spoil my ballot paper, but I am truly sick of it all.

So, shoot me, I'm not even going to don the flack jacket and tin helmet.