'when the ship goes down you'd better be ready' (golden glow)

sean has just been to visit (and is now back off to comic con). horsemouth has retreated home to cough and sniffle. we have made it to our fifties (something we couldn’t reasonably have expected to forsee), our pensions (viewed as a paradise of once again being  economically inactive ) however still seem impossibly far away.

we now have a date for the vote on brexit - horsemouth is toying with the notion that the economic and political carnage caused by brexit (in as much as it is actually possible) would be a fair price to pay for the end of austerity driven economic ‘growth’.

the great british ruling class are relying upon inertia to keep the british in europe - backstory: to keep his eurosceptics quiet, tactical genius cameron promised them a referendum on europe - now the great british public (caution may include 4 million ukip voters) get to vote on a major economic and political matter - thinking about it now prime minister, was that really wise? 

horsemouth is tempted to vote for brexit just on the basis that it will be funny (though it would mean keeping company with farage, gove and a whole bunch of goons). wales, scotland, the north, northern ireland, cornwall probably, the landed gentry, the farmers, all rely on european money. and without that then what?

brexit would probably lead to scexit - unless the scots nats MPs have got too comfortable in westminster. the existing tensions of the rest of the country (and even the republic of ireland) being dragged about in the van of london and the south east would intensify to point of fracture.

internationalists that we all are - especially those of us that are ‘economic migrants’ (and not just those from wales, scotland, ireland and ’the north’) aren’t we just choosing the bosses’ europe over the bosses’ britain, aren’t we just choosing what is good for capitalism in the hope that some of the good stuff will trickle down. maybe portugal should be our guide. as soon as the ship starts to go down is a good time to jump ship - when the ship goes down you’d better be ready...