Well I saw a side of it many would not have done.
Our neighbours were also English ,and her sister and brother came to live
in Gent.
They were to work in Brussels ,for the Common market!
They seemed to be on holiday every few weeks !
The pay was astronomical, lots of perks etc, can’t remember fully but the term gravy train springs to mind.
Meanwhile prices had risen in England under the big con of decimalisation and continued to rise.
You saw it when you only went over every few months for a shopping trip to Dover for properly fitted children’s shoes etc.
People naively thought,well some did, that decimalisation of currency and measures etc were the main part! ::)of joining.
I remember a politician saying ,years before we joined that we would be able to get wine at 16/- a bottle, I shouted at the radio,” fat lot of good that will be when the children need new shoes!”
What a con, and to be beholden to FRANCE!
Did Agincourt, Crecy, Poitiers mean nothing?.
The Black Prince, Prince Hal etc will be spinning in their tombs .
Not forgetting. WW1 and WW2 .
De lGaulle did not by any means mean it as a kindly refusal ,but had
the idiots in Whitehall only realised it he was doing us a favour by his “NON”.
All water under the bridge now, but where are collapsing bridges when you need them most ?
( I am not sure what I mean to say by that
)
I am off to feed the fish ,listening to Classic FM then Julio Iglesias!
Viktoria.
