One of my earliest memories, was being pushed along in my pushchair; by my Grandfather.  I was lucky to have had him, as many others had lost theirs; in the muddy fields of the Somme, or on the beaches of Dunkirk.  Mine had been in a reserved occupation, a cushy number I hear many ask......no such luck.  He was a miner in the valleys of south Wales, in the days when the miners were on their knees, at the pit face, digging the coal out with picks and shovels; for the war effort.  I still remember, vividly, the scars all over his scalp, from coal falling from the roof of the tunnels and being turned blue by the coal dust.  My father walked to school, with no shoes on his feet, over the slag heaps.....to drag himself out of the poverty of the valleys and make a success of himself.  These are the hardy breed, of men and women, who MADE this Country.........who gave blood, sweat and tears, so that we could have our opinions and voice them freely; on here and everywhere else.  Like we all will, they grew old; what would you have us do ?  Say thanks and then put them down, like some carthorse that had broken its Leg.  They earned every breath they took, every step they made in the freedom that they had bled for.  Pensioners, have earned the rewards they now enjoy and most have been worth 10 times more, than a lot of the modern generation will ever be worth. If progress means that they live longer, to taste the fruits of their own hard labour; then there is at least justice for some in this life.  It's this sort of life, spent in your country of birth; that truly makes it YOUR country, the one you lived in, worked in and never abused or deserted.

As far a the EU is concerned, the more I hear about it; the more annoyed I become, that some " Thing(s)" roped us all into it and not only incorporated a lot of small print......but omitted to mention it all together.  According to Hammond, it could take up to 8 years of negitiations to get out and we'd have to pay reparations.......maybe even continue to pay into it, after we left.