Prospective retirement

[Roch]

Cambridge - will you retire at Wicken Fens? I've been reading about the Saxon resistance in the years after the Norman invasion and subjugation.

[Cambridgecutie]

Cambridge - will you retire at Wicken Fens? I've been reading about the Saxon resistance in the years after the Norman invasion and subjugation.

Please don't mention The Fens!  It is synomous with interbreeding and webbed feet!

Overall I would choose to retire to Kent: housing good value for money, good road network, near the coast, nice beaches, some hills, easy access to London rail and road, easy access to Gatwick and Stansted, ports, Eurostar and Europe.  Decent locally produced ale and wine.  What's not to like?  It's very underrated in my opinion.

[Steve_uk]

Thought you were a Brexiteer?

I took the same view as the former Leader of the Conservatives, Michael Howard QC, namely that the UK would be in a better negotiating position if we voted out, rather than lie down and take Cameron's rotten deal. Sadly the negotiations fell by the wayside and Brits have ended up with the worst of all worlds.

[Steve_uk]

Cambridge - will you retire at Wicken Fens? I've been reading about the Saxon resistance in the years after the Norman invasion and subjugation.

Is there housing nearby, or is it primarily for conservationists and day excursions? https://youtu.be/r_bbzNmHFVI

[Cambridgecutie]

I took the same view as the former Leader of the Conservatives, Michael Howard QC, namely that the UK would be in a better negotiating position if we voted out, rather than lie down and take Cameron's rotten deal. Sadly the negotiations fell by the wayside and Brits have ended up with the worst of all worlds.

How could the UK be in a better negotiating position if we voted out?  It was surely obvious what would happen? 

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Hence Johnson and Gove were able to get away with liesmisleading statements about immigration and saving millions which would go towards the NHS which the likes of you fell for!

[Steve_uk]

How could the UK be in a better negotiating position if we voted out?  It was surely obvious what would happen? 

Advertising standards do not apply to:

7.1
Claims in marketing communications, whenever published or distributed, whose principal function is to influence voters in a local, regional, national or international election or referendum are exempt from the Code.

Hence Johnson and Gove were able to get away with liesmisleading statements about immigration and saving millions which would go towards the NHS which the likes of you fell for!

The point is: the UK has a different history from other European nations. We have never been defeated on our own territory since 1066. We have survived Napoleon's Continental System and the threat of invasion in 1940. It's not surprising that the goal of "ever-closer union" was not going to be as popular with us as other European nations, all of whom had some skeleton in the cupboard come 1945.

The main problem with the EU as I see it is the democratic deficit. We can't elect Ursula von der Leyen and can't remove her. https://www.quora.com/Did-Mikhail-Gorbachev-say-the-European-Union-is-the-old-Soviet-Union-dressed-in-Western-clothes-If-so-what-did-he-mean

[Cambridgecutie]

The point is: the UK has a different history from other European nations. [We have never been defeated on our own territory since 1066. We have survived Napoleon's Continental System and the threat of invasion in 1940. It's not surprising that the goal of "ever-closer union" was not going to be as popular with us as other European nations, all of whom had some skeleton in the cupboard come 1945.

The main problem with the EU as I see it is the democratic deficit. We can't elect Ursula von der Leyen and can't remove her. https://www.quora.com/Did-Mikhail-Gorbachev-say-the-European-Union-is-the-old-Soviet-Union-dressed-in-Western-clothes-If-so-what-did-he-mean

It rather helps being an island nation!

Do you mean like this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dranqFntNgo

 

[Roch]

Please don't mention The Fens!  It is synomous with interbreeding and webbed feet!

Overall I would choose to retire to Kent: housing good value for money, good road network, near the coast, nice beaches, some hills, easy access to London rail and road, easy access to Gatwick and Stansted, ports, Eurostar and Europe.  Decent locally produced ale and wine.  What's not to like?  It's very underrated in my opinion.

I used to live in Kent. Can't remember much about it. I did like Essex when I lived there. Of the two counties I feel more affinity to Essex which was my birthplace.

[Roch]

Is there housing nearby, or is it primarily for conservationists and day excursions? https://youtu.be/r_bbzNmHFVI

Never been Steve. Looks pretty wild to me.

[Cambridgecutie]

I used to live in Kent. Can't remember much about it. I did like Essex when I lived there. Of the two counties I feel more affinity to Essex which was my birthplace.

My bestie lives in Essex.  Housing is far more expensive there than Kent. 

[Roch]

Please don't mention The Fens!  It is synomous with interbreeding and webbed feet!

Overall I would choose to retire to Kent: housing good value for money, good road network, near the coast, nice beaches, some hills, easy access to London rail and road, easy access to Gatwick and Stansted, ports, Eurostar and Europe.  Decent locally produced ale and wine.  What's not to like?  It's very underrated in my opinion.

I'm not very clued up with Cambridge geography. I just noticed Soham is not far, which I recognise for obvious, tragic reasons. I once knew a lad from Boston Lincs, which I know is big county and not necessarily close to the Fens. He told me everyone there drives a pick-up and spits on their dog's head.

[Steve_uk]

Escape from Ursula von der Leyen and the European bureaucracy. https://youtu.be/eiHYqCalcc8?list=LL

[Cambridgecutie]

I'm not very clued up with Cambridge geography. I just noticed Soham is not far, which I recognise for obvious, tragic reasons. I once knew a lad from Boston Lincs, which I know is big county and not necessarily close to the Fens. He told me everyone there drives a pick-up and spits on their dog's head.

I was born in the city of Cambridge.  Going northwards and eastwards it is rural.  My parents used to have a hol home in Suffolk (east of Cambridge).  One day I was on my own and intended on going for a short walk and ended up getting lost in some sort of wood/forest.  I had nothing with me by way of phone, map etc.  Eventually I came across a pub.  Walked in and it felt like a cowboy film where the place falls silent and everyone looks round.  All these guys with thick Suffolk accents wearing cowboy type hats.  I must have had some money with me as I recall buying a drink and then ordering a taxi back 

[Steve_uk]

I was born in the city of Cambridge.  Going northwards and eastwards it is rural.  My parents used to have a hol home in Suffolk (east of Cambridge).  One day I was on my own and intended on going for a short walk and ended up getting lost in some sort of wood/forest.  I had nothing with me by way of phone, map etc.  Eventually I came across a pub.  Walked in and it felt like a cowboy film where the place falls silent and everyone looks round.  All these guys with thick Suffolk accents wearing cowboy type hats.  I must have had some money with me as I recall buying a drink and then ordering a taxi back 

A friend of mine had a similar experience in Calgary.

[Hardy Boy]

I'm not very clued up with Cambridge geography. I just noticed Soham is not far, which I recognise for obvious, tragic reasons. I once knew a lad from Boston Lincs, which I know is big county and not necessarily close to the Fens. He told me everyone there drives a pick-up and spits on their dog's head.

Rather Flat and Boring Roch    No, Cambridgeshire it self was great for fishing when i was in my teens and early twenties, i love cycling the area now though.